So many months back I made a trade for some custom wheels. Well, they are all done and I have them

I painted the centers and weighed them. They came in at 13.5lbs. What does a 5 lug Fuchs weigh?

Sweet!
More details and closer pictures please!

WOW! That is going to look so nice. What kinda tiers you have in mind?

I Googled for Porsche wheel weights and came up with this chart.

So this is 1.5lbs heavier than a 5-lug Fuchs Tires that will be mounted are 225 45 RA1s

Jon

Where those polished and who did the polish? I've been sanding on mine

and that is alot of work.

They are Mahle centers but polished aluminium hoops

I see that

I've got a set that I'm just trying to do the rim then I'll paint

just the centers like Panasports silver wheel paint.

Yours do look great! next time we meet you'll have to tell

me how much you have in them without the wife finding out.

I don't have anything into them as it was part of a trade

However, what I traded for them was a rather rare part.

very nice!!!

16" X 7"

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Dang! 140 lbs?

Those are gorgeous!

I'm sure I'm being dense here, but I thought these were one-piece wheels. How do you get centers from one and different hoops? Is it just then ?

I'm not sure how it is done but basically just remove the center and use it in an aluminium hoop. All of which is beyond my abilities.

and 3.5 lb's heavier than Dan Gurney AKA American Racing


It's actually pretty easy. If you want to do the part of the rim where the stem is you will have to dismount the tire. Otherwise, just jack up one rear wheel (chock the front ones for safety) then start the engine and put it in 2nd gear. While the tire is spinning place the "wet sandpaper" over the area you desire to polish, working from 1200 grit thru 2000 grit. Follow up with polishing compound and then a finish compound. You will need a rubber backed sanding pad to hold the sandpaper in place or you will toast your finger tips as all this friction will = heat.


Paint the rims first then follow above instructions. Takes about 10 min's per rim.
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I polished and sanded the empi style wheels on my sons bug using a airtool with a scotchbrite roll and disks and then 400-1000 and 2k paper then polish with the mothers stuff. Afterwards I painted the centers. Of course with the tires off. I'm sure the wheel mounted on the car running in gear will work though but be sure and put a jack under the arm to support it up, not in the full down position.

the Gurney / American Racing wheels are 5.5 wide not 7

Unless you can show proof of this I'm going to call BS.

Hmmm. I never would have thought of using the car itself as a lathe.

I would not try this at home.

A motorcycle forum I hang out on has stories of how people used a similar method to clean their motorcycle chain, which usually ends up with fingers getting cut off. Apples and oranges, I know, but running a vehicle in gear with no one at the throttle looks like an accident waiting to happen IMO.

Those look amazing! Sign me up, would love to do the same thing with 4 lug Fuchs...

I think a wager is in order. But just to be fair I did weigh one. Your call. Cost of tire removal and rebalance is on the loser.

These are 15x 7s?

Those are absolutely incredible!!!!!!!

I know it was a trade, but were they done here in the Puget Sound area?? I would really like to have the wheels on my '67 Square (currently running stock 5.5" Mahles like those) widened with custom offset and possibly made into 16" versions at the same time. Gotta know who to talk with though if they are local.

Otherwise Stockton Wheel is the only other option i know of. . .

Lemme know. . .

Done locally.

They look really good with 225 45 r15s too

Tits. Absolute tits.

Those are very nice!

So it looks like I will need to pull the fenders very little to fit 225 45 r15s with these wheels

Does anyone know who can make these wheels? I would also like to see some wide 4-lug Fuchs.

I know who made them.

by by nice paint!

It's not THAT nice Besides, it's now an autocross car.

That shot shows prolly the best paint on the car!

I love the color

Are you certain those studs will be long enough?

I'm compensating for something

Those look great. I wonder why the builder didn't do the offset a little better when they joined the centers to the hoops. I assume they were always intended for a 914. That may not be the case I guess.

Jon, is this car going to be ready for this upcoming autox season?

thats a big ass tire;
P225/45ZR15 E 9.0" 22.9" 72.0" 7-8.5" 7.5" 9.8"

The builder built them knowing I was going to pull the fenders.

Yes and no. It will be at the autocrosses but as it stands I need a 1.8l engine able to do GP. Unless something changes it may need to wait until next season to make a run at Nationals.

Jon likes big lips.

Those are sweet!

so?

Jon those came out just plain amazing! Makes me not want to re-drill my rotors. But something tells me that the cost would end up killing the thought in the long run.

By the by Nice job, A great retro update

Just walked by the car tonight and thought I'd snap a picture

I would love to have a set of Fuchs done like this for dads car...

I have to agree with you PeeGreen. Those Dan Gurney "Westerns" do not weigh 10 pounds. How do I know? I weighed mine at 15.8 lbs.

Beautiful. If I went with a narrow body I'd run these for sure. The black centers set off the BUB's nicely too.

For the class I am building the car for 7s are the max and they had to retain the 4 lug pattern.

BUBs are gone.... Need to get the car down to 1800lbs