Question about wheels and offsets

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:17:33 -0500, Steve W. wrote:

> Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/ wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:15:37 +0000, Tony Hwang wrote:
>>
>>> Hmmm,
>>> Old car like those pollute a lot!
>>
>> The '85 Corolla GT-S turns almost the same numbers on the Environmental
>> tester as it did when it was new. There's a lot to be said for
>> maintenance. It has 260,000 miles on it...
>>
>>
>>
> Have you tried carpart.com and seen how many yards have those wheels? I
> punched it in locally and they have tons of them starting at 15 bucks
> each!


Where are you at? I'm in New England and they're hit or miss; a few at
~$20 but more like $30 up...

There is one yard that delivers to the town where I live, and they had
them for about $20.

Tony Hwang wrote:
> Nate Nagel wrote:
>
>> Tony Hwang wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Zero $ for something like that, LOL! My son-in-law owns s big CNC shop!
>>> Looking at OP id. 86 in Japanese, does it mean his car is 1986 model?
>>> I never owned a car/truck more than 10 years old. Shouldn't car that old
>>> be sent to junk yard?
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm just gonna assume that that was meant in a joking manner... my
>> car is an '88, my pickup is a '93, and my second car is a '55! Save
>> the environment, drive an old car!
>>
>> nate
>>
>>
> Hmmm,
> Old car like those pollute a lot! Newer cars are greener and safer!
> We always drive AWD with all the bells and whistles for safety first.
> I look after them alway in original condition. I do most work on them.
> I no longer have any truck since I sold my 5th wheel camping trailer.
> I built a cabin instead. Currently 4 cars in the family. Subaru, Honda,
> Suzuki. All farly new.

I disagree. It costs FAR more in energy and pollution to make a new car
than it does to run an old one every day for 10 years or more. As for
safety - yeah, the '55 has a straight, non-collapsible steering column
pointing at my chest. So what? it's only myself that is at risk, and I
don't drive like an asshat, and I've also made a few modifications for
safety (lap belts, dual circuit master cylinder, later-model finned
drums in front, later model sway bar in front and '55 sedan sway bar in
back, HD springs, and most importantly radial tires on Chrysler cop car
wheels)

As for my newer car... well, it's a Porsche 944, passes emissions every
year, and I feel confident driving it that I have a better chance of
avoiding an incident than I do in the vast majority of newer cars simply
because it handles like nobody's business.

nate

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Tony Hwang wrote:
> Hachiroku ãƒ�ãƒ�ãƒ*ク wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:39:11 +0000, Tony Hwang wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hachiroku ãƒ�ãƒ�ãƒ*ク wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:02:01 -0800, Bruce L. Bergman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> If you can't find pre-made spacers, I'd have a machine shop (or a
>>>>> specialty CNC abrasive water-jet cutting shop) cut them out of 1/4"
>>>>> steel plate. (The plates can be sent out to be "Blanchard Ground"
>>>>> flat
>>>>> and parallel if you really think it will make a difference, but you
>>>>> need
>>>>> to go up in thickness to allow for the grinding.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> But is this going to cost more than $50?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Zero $ for something like that, LOL! My son-in-law owns s big CNC shop!
>>> Looking at OP id. 86 in Japanese, does it mean his car is 1986 model? I
>>> never owned a car/truck more than 10 years old. Shouldn't car that
>>> old be
>>> sent to junk yard? Let the economy roll. Or why not just get a new
>>> set of
>>> proper rims anf forget about it. It's kinda safety issue.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hachiroku=AE86:
>>
>> http://www.pbase.com/mr_16v/hachiroku_pics
>>
>> http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...erm=hachi-roku
>>
>> And my favorite:
>>
>> http://www.ae86.hu/pics/JIro_Yamada.jpg
>>
>> 1985 Corolla GT-S Twin-Cam, owned since April of 1985, still running but
>> rusty.
>>
>> Good catch on the 8-6, though...
>>
>>
> Hi,
> If you ever X-ray a car like that, you'll see sign of metal fatigue,
> hair line cracks, hidden rust things like that. Nothing laat forever!

Anything can be fixed. There were some serious frame cracks on my old
'56 Golden Hawk; I've got pictures of the local welding guy that came by
with a truck-mounted stick welder and made it better than new (I had him
add reinforcements under the upper control arm mounting points.) Cost
me about $350 (of course I already had the front clip off and suspension
removed for him) much cheaper and much less energy used than making a
new frame!

Unfortunately I sold the car to a guy in England who was going to
completely restore it; it died a spectacular death when the fireworks
warehouse next door to the resto shop caught on fire

nate

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Nate Nagel wrote:

>
> Anything can be fixed. There were some serious frame cracks on my old
> '56 Golden Hawk; I've got pictures of the local welding guy that came by
> with a truck-mounted stick welder and made it better than new (I had him
> add reinforcements under the upper control arm mounting points.) Cost
> me about $350 (of course I already had the front clip off and suspension
> removed for him) much cheaper and much less energy used than making a
> new frame!
>
> Unfortunately I sold the car to a guy in England who was going to
> completely restore it; it died a spectacular death when the fireworks
> warehouse next door to the resto shop caught on fire
>
> nate
>

Coincidence? I watched "Shockwave" on CourtTV last night and they ran a
segment on that same fireworks blowup/fire. It was a pair of scissors
that caused the whole thing. No Hawks in the flick tho..

On Dec 16, 3:03 pm, "nobody >" > wrote:
> Nate Nagel wrote:
>
> > Anything can be fixed. There were some serious frame cracks on my old
> > '56 Golden Hawk; I've got pictures of the local welding guy that came by
> > with a truck-mounted stick welder and made it better than new (I had him
> > add reinforcements under the upper control arm mounting points.) Cost
> > me about $350 (of course I already had the front clip off and suspension
> > removed for him) much cheaper and much less energy used than making a
> > new frame!
>
> > Unfortunately I sold the car to a guy in England who was going to
> > completely restore it; it died a spectacular death when the fireworks
> > warehouse next door to the resto shop caught on fire
>
> > nate
>
> Coincidence? I watched "Shockwave" on CourtTV last night and they ran a
> segment on that same fireworks blowup/fire. It was a pair of scissors
> that caused the whole thing. No Hawks in the flick tho.

Really? place I'm thinking of was in Bristol, but without digging out
the old BBC news article I couldn't say what the name of either the
fireworks place or the resto shop was. I can't imagine a large
fireworks warehouse going up is a common occurrance tho so it may as
well be. this happened maybe a year or two ago.

nate

Nate Nagel wrote:
> Tony Hwang wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Zero $ for something like that, LOL! My son-in-law owns s big CNC shop!
>> Looking at OP id. 86 in Japanese, does it mean his car is 1986 model?
>> I never owned a car/truck more than 10 years old. Shouldn't car that old
>> be sent to junk yard?
>
> I'm just gonna assume that that was meant in a joking manner... my car
> is an '88, my pickup is a '93, and my second car is a '55! Save the
> environment, drive an old car!
>
> nate
>
>
I will second that!

I keep my 'old' Jeep tuned up well enough to get a nice 23 mpg
(11L/100km or less) highway 'and' pass emissions 'with low numbers' too!

Tuneups are cheap and easy on old beasts usually also, unlike some new
cars where you have to pull the engine 'out' to change the plugs...

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
'New' frame in the works for '08. Some Canadian Bush Trip and Build
Photos: http://mikeromainjeeptrips.shutterfly.com