VW motorsport wheel clones - *on car pics added 19/10

Saw your mk5 at anglesey track day yesterday, those wheels looked really good

And the car seem to go good round the track to!

 

Ahh, thanks - it was a good day, very interesting track too, although I'd have preferred the Coastal version with the corkscrew.

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150388312274&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123

Some more pitty they are for a ford

 

Hmm - offset might be a bit too cheeky at 33 to run adapters, I'm not sure what you can stretch to on anything other than a MKV, >35 requires a lot of work, but I think the older ones are more forgiving?

Interesting note on the screws being for the tarmac cooling fans, I wonder if that's what the 5 aux holes are for on mine??

 

The weird thing is I cant recal ever seeing these on the Escort WRC cars

 

External rally cooling fans were outlawed, pre-Group A Escorts (1993 IIRC), when the FIA started quite a lot of wing-clipping, such as reducing max tyre width, and turbo restrictors (40mm => 38mm, year? & => 34mm, 1995).

Does this point to Sierras?

 

Saw at set o OZ motorsport wheels for sale over on ED38 would like nice but they are 4x108 16`x8 et 25



http://www.edition38.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=264816

 

[/QUOTE]

Another Rallye with motorsport style wheels

 

Hmmm, Ford, definitely.

I was thinking Ford Escort Cosworth Monte Edition wheels, but.. not close enough:

 

I'm fairly sure the Escort Monte's weren't the magnesium ones.

Maybe just a mothballed set from the cooling fan days someone ran on their Escort?

 

Found by accident on eBay



Is the bolt dish the same depth as the rally car?



Listed as 16 inch wheels (were the Rally ones bigger in that pic above?) and 4 x 98.

Click

 

They certainly look the real deal, offsets may have been down to team/driver/stage requirements - so I wouldn't be concerned about that if it's different.

I would be concerned where they've been left to the elements and the paint has bubbled/fallen off, Mg is really porous and does some very strange things. You can x-ray the wheels to ensure they're still safe - depending on how long they've been like that, they may well be scrap. This tends to be in the case of really old stuff though, so a visual check hopefully would be enough to see how deep corrosion runs.

Refurb isn't straight forward either, there's few places will touch them or completely know what they're doing.

They're an ace wheel, but buy knowing they're not straightforward.

WRC in Bamber Bridge know how to deal with them, grindnshine too.

 

Dymag would also advise a refurber or even take on - at a price.