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  1. d55dave

    Need help to mount these

    You can also use rally center caps on those cop wheels, the sombrero style look great.
  2. d55dave

    Need help to mount these

    The three holes between the lug holes are used for retaining a factory center cap on a rally wheel. How about if you fab up a polished round aluminum or stainless disc that fits around the lug nuts. Use the three screw holes to retain it. Add two more dummy screws to make it look like there are...
  3. d55dave

    What wheels on your 8.8?

    Rainy, stock mopar steel wheels fit the 8.8 perfectly. I have mopar 15" cop rims on mine and they clear the disc brakes with loads of room. The hub pilot diameter is the same.
  4. d55dave

    How much clearance do I need?

    Those are slicks or radial tires? Kind of look like slicks in the pic. My current slicks have slightly more clearance than that. Going down the track is no problem as they stand up and get narrower with rpm..... but around the pits and when (infrequent) I drive them on the street they rub on...
  5. d55dave

    Wheels to Heavy for 7 1/4

    This, they are unsprung weight, supported by the ground not the differential.
  6. d55dave

    Alum slot rim id??

    Actually, wrong, and that chart is wrong. In engineering terms, and this is also how wheels are measured, a bolt circle is the diameter of a circle that goes through the center of all the bolts that lie on the circle perimeter. A 5 on 4.5" bolt circle has five bolts (studs) whose center lie...
  7. d55dave

    Best burnout picture

    And here is the 72 swinger 440, the car that was possessed and literally almost killed me. It crushed my right femur just above the knee. I won pro class the day of the picture, then sold it on ebay. it went to Germany.
  8. d55dave

    Best burnout picture

    Love the nostalgic pics, here is my high school car, sometime around 1986, Nepean Ontario. Sold the car the next year but I always wondered where it ended up.
  9. d55dave

    my frustration! left? handed lug nuts

    Perhaps your front drums have been swapped side to side, you just might find the L/H thread ones on the front right.......
  10. d55dave

    Lugs not staying tight

    unilug wheels have oval holes for the studs so that they can fit on different bolt patterns. They require special washers to fill the oval hole. Most people tend to stay away from unilug wheels and buy the proper wheel for their car.
  11. d55dave

    I need the truth about wheel adaptors

    The studs, instead of being firmly swaged int a steel hardened axle, are now only pressed into a thin aluminum spacer. Plus the wheel is now held on with cantilevered studs. The wheel spacer is, in my opinion, rube goldberg, and any engineer would not recommend it. As above, your car, your life...
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