Dodge Challenger Wheels
Dion,
I don't take offense to your posts and I hope you don't take offense to mine. I'm aware posts and emails can come across different than they were meant, so I'm cool.
No offense taken on my part.
The center to center distance across the pattern (2 spaces apart) for the 4.5" pattern is 4.2798" and for the 115mm pattern it is 4.3060" for a difference of .0262" or less than a 1/32". And measuring center to center on a hole is
really hard to do and get an accurate number. You can get closer by using an edge to edge of the holes method, but you are still dependant on how close you actually get to the center of the hole.
Do you have access to a printer? I could try and make up a .pdf file with some (potentially) accurate lines and circles for both patterns you could maybe use to gauge things. Just an idea.
Or if you have a method of accurately laying out some distances to build your own gauge, you could use the above numbers to make 2 different length sticks or something that you could use to eyeball things and compare.
Best check is still a hole to hole gauge like a tire shop or wrecking yard would have. The one I used had rubber cones that centered up the holes so I could see one gauge riding up on side and the other centered up on both. That also eliminates the issue of a tape sliding when you move to look at the other hole to see what the measurement it since you can't hook a tape end over anything.
Really need to have both length available to accurately gauge things, too. It's easy to think you have the right one if you only compare it to one length, but having both makes it easier to figure out which is closer. A double blind would be even better where you make some sticks the accurate length and then mix them up so you don't know which is which, then measure the one that looks closest after you compare them to the pattern.
I think I will do up some little paper gauges and take with me this weekend. Bound to be a new Challenger or Charger somewhere that I can lay the gauges on.
