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Old 10-29-2002, 11:50 AM
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Lynn(?) Pardy at Trigo---any widths---he "welds", (if that's the right term) fillets or spanner sections and can go out to ANY width your fenders will accept. As you already know, he'll have to have your required offsets. I'm also pretty sure that 15" and 16" diameter rims are going to go begging soon------the trend's toward 17" (in Cobras) and 18-22"(!) in everyone else. I rode around in an SPF with 17/335x45s ("Viper Rubber") on it. Awesome grip---but pretty risky on New England's pot-hole collections ("roads" to you lucky normal people). Alloys with low-profile rubber don't like deep road-surface imperfections. I assume you're using these on a drag strip. "Mag-Lite" (Halibrand sub?) used to make a REALLY lightweight rim--a name something like "Salt-Flat Special". In any case it was ridiculous--both for its weight (none) and the price (opposite of "none"!----sort of the opposite of fine beef)! Increidbly, feather-weight (but thick-section MAGNESIUM) Hali's used to take "chunking" into potholes with ease(?)---I have no idea why. A friend's c. 1998 Porsche 911T go over some "speed bumps" in Newport (RI) and he was complaining about "shimmy" all the way back to Hingham. Of course, he'd put $2300 worth of BBRs (or something) out of round.

Good luck. I'll step aside for the experts now---they abound on this site.
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