banded wheels
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Hi there everyone,
not sure if you know about this already but there is a up and coming compant that specialise in banded wheels

http://www.wide-wheels.co.uk/

and i am here to ask you guys an gals who might be intrested in purchasing these works of art if you would like some and no how much things are(email them)
then add your self onta a list below the wheels are powder coated/painted and are ready for tyres in their price.
they hava also been machine welded for all you scardy cats :)

im having a set of mini 3.5X10s made into 7x10s and this is costing £300 with a pressuer testing of all the wheels being painted and tyres not bad hey ......

MiniMon ... what tyres are you going to throw over those ?.... surely they aren't going to be much fun to drive on 165s as the car will react to any minor imperpection in the surface ....

Are they going both in and out?

Each to there own I suppose.

Every day is a school day ...........

How fast and how expensive ...... the same question...

hi mate these are going to be my track wheels there not practical on the road really.....


are what going in and out the spacers????? no i want them on the outside

and before you say anything about bearings i can get an infinate free supply and free fitting so i dnt need to worry really

032's going over 10 x 7's as do 008's.

What a lot of people on this site run.

Really .....

Rather you guys than me ..... Is that not a bit of a stretch?

I suppose it all comes down to personal preference at the end of the day

Every day is a school day ...........

How fast and how expensive ...... the same question...

Be very careful with these. Not the rims themslves but the material around the wheelnuts.
Gavin Wakely on this site had banded rims on an old Mini of his and twice had the metal around the wheelnuts fatigue and break off. This was a road car, you might give them more of a hard time on a track.

I must say they do look good though.

Paul

I seriously doubt it!

I have asked them about this as my dad use to drag race a 6 litre mopar engined anglia with banded wheels and he advised me to ask them to x ray the metal here as this is what he did at the end of each season for cracks so i will be doing this to check for weak spots

Youve gt mail paul

Edited by MINIMON on 15th Apr, 2007.

heres ma car with force race splits on 7x10 aswell

i'm planning on a set of carls rims for my road tyres.

take a look at jim's car roger, thats what he uses.

Fairy snuff ... horses for courses.

I certainly wouldn't want to be trying to drive quickly on them around the bumpy, slippy, twisty Cotswold lanes around here.

As I always say a lot of the parameters around setting up a car is individual taste.

Every day is a school day ...........

How fast and how expensive ...... the same question...

yeah, to be fair mines never going to be pushed on the road at all. i just want to be able to take a spirited run about in it.

Its got full mig suspension for a start!!

i save the racing for the track.

seems a good price to me! is it just mini wheels?

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no they do ANY size an any wheel (as long as its steel) check the site

Edited by MINIMON on 15th Apr, 2007.

Paul, correct me if im wrong but isn't this Gavin's with ze banded rims?



Mint!

On 15th of Apr, 2007 at 09:58pm garethlloyd said:
Paul, correct me if im wrong but isn't this Gavin's with ze banded rims?



Mint!

I seriously doubt it!

They look wicked, handy link, my mate may be interested for his Golf!

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