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[claysummers]

Not mine

Please view this ad:

Rare 3 peice mawer racing rims 5x108 lj/lc torana,
https://www.gumtree....roid_VIP_sticky

Price: $2,000

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[Heath]

Yum.

Hopefully a LC/LJ coupe cops a nice guard cut and sheetmetal flares to fit these badboys under it.

[madtoranajzedded]

Gee,thats the second set thats came up just recently.

Who would you see bout making some new bands up for the centres..ROH?

[Heath]

Whitehorse Industries in Lilydale VIC will spin up new alluminium bands. I've got their bands/lips/barrels, whatever you want to call them on two of my cars currently.

 

I actually think the wheels in this ad are steel-banded rather than ally-banded, which would suck.

Part of the reason Tim (RIM-010) didn't bother restoring some original Mawers that he found was that they were steel, and just got his hands on new CNC'd centres and did it that way. They probably had a more common flange size, flange PCD, etc. as well.

[tuxedoss]

Do you know what new bands cost from Whitehorse ? I tried to ring them numerous times a few weeks ago and they never answered. I was after some outers for some Simmons I got . Its going to cost about $200 a rim to polish the outers back to new

[madtoranajzedded]

Whitehorse Industries in Lilydale VIC will spin up new alluminium bands. I've got their bands/lips/barrels, whatever you want to call them on two of my cars currently.

I actually think the wheels in this ad are steel-banded rather than ally-banded, which would suck.
Part of the reason Tim (RIM-010) didn't bother restoring some original Mawers that he found was that they were steel, and just got his hands on new CNC'd centres and did it that way. They probably had a more common flange size, flange PCD, etc. as well.

Thanks for that Heath.i was just looking through weld wheels site last night and came across 13' bands that could quite possibly fit the mawer centres and purchase them undrilled where the centre bolts up if they had the correct bs and width you wanted.  Screenshot_20220524-182901.jpg   187.33K   3 downloads

Edited by madtoranajzedded, 24 May 2022 - 06:36 PM.

[Heath]

Yeah so that's an inner and an outer that are already welded together I suppose.

 

You need to bore the new spun alluminium bands to suit the spigot of the wheel. Then you drill them to suit the bolts.

Whitehorse will supply this already machined to suit the spigot of your wheel centre. Price varies according to size I think but at a ballpark probably $150-250 per band.

 

The first time I had a set made up they were less than $1,000 for all 8pcs.

But I think those times have changed.

 

https://www.threepiecewheels.com.au/

Run by Craig at Whitehorse Industries

[madtoranajzedded]

Thanks for the info heath 👍.

Your avatar caught the corner of my eye.lol..im purchasing those very same seats.just different inserts... recaro lx classic.they look great mate..

Cheers

[Heath]

Yep, they are the bomb haha.

[Bruiser]

That’s pretty close to a Clan Wallace tartan
Sitting in those would make you Bravearse
Handy with 500hp I bet

[kudu]

I had a set of these a while ago and was trying to sell them in OZ....No one wanted them and there was no interest, so I left them on the car when I sold it.

 

Two 14x8's and Two 14x 9.5's

Edited by kudu, 26 May 2022 - 07:39 AM.

[Heath]

That’s pretty close to a Clan Wallace tartan
Sitting in those would make you Bravearse
Handy with 500hp I bet

LOL

 

I had a set of these a while ago and was trying to sell them in OZ....No one wanted them and there was no interest, so I left them on the car when I sold it.

 

Two 14x8's and Two 14x 9.5's

Wow. Steel or ally hoops?

 

Honestly if they're steel I'm not surprised there's no interest. But ally I'd thought people would be climbing over one another for them.

[madtoranajzedded]

I like the steel ones.specially chromed.this is one of mates cars whos no longer with us.crap pics i got from another friend taken in the late 80s early 90s.13x9 1/4 all round on 8' ta's.turboed 6 black motor.toploader box,camaro rear end. flared professionally to get those lovely mawer rims under..my fav car still.  20182726_1924783237793621_542062796_n.jpg   71.81K   6 downloads  20182650_1924783214460290_666438504_n.jpg   59.02K   4 downloads

Edited by madtoranajzedded, 26 May 2022 - 03:21 PM.

[kudu]

LOL

 

Wow. Steel or ally hoops?

 

Honestly if they're steel I'm not surprised there's no interest. But ally I'd thought people would be climbing over one another for them.

 

They were steel. But the steel ones were the genuine racing versions... They were chrome and very very thin!

[Heath]

That HR Holden looks siiiiiiiiiiick.

 

Yeah, well no doubt they're the genuine article. Don't get me wrong, chrome looks cool on wheels but I can't understand someone giving up the unsprung mass advantages of an upgrade to aluminium wheels on any car they're building unless its primary purpose is bouncing over rocks in a winch challenge, lol. I've got some old 15x10" Dragway Indies in the garage with chrome lips and they look so awesome, but the weight of these things is hard to fathom. I don't know if I could actually bring myself to running them on a car because of the effects on the car's dynamics.

[madtoranajzedded]

Very small rim though compared to my weldstars shod with mickey thompson sportman pros with tube lol.now these are heavy.easily twice as heavy as the mawers.this was just his weekend car to cruise the streets and giving her a qik sqirt every now and then.not a racecar but a tough street car..

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