Cheap ford Alloys?

[TT Tim]

Seeing as the Chimaera uses Ford hubs, or at least those that haven't had the Spider upgrade do, has anyone bought a set of cheap Alloys for use on track days?

I'm wondering what offset etc is and has anyone had any experience of doing this.

I'm sure there must be 100s of cheap rims out there that are suitable, hell the Max Muppets love modding their Escorts don't they.

Tim

>>> Edited by TT Tim on Monday 1st March 12:38

[paul garabette]

I'm looking into getting some "off the shelf" alloys at the moment. It's very difficult to find suitable alloys as the fronts need a low offset (ET25) which is not standard Ford, whereas the rears offset(ET 35 ish) is.

The fronts seem to be the size for a Peugeot 307 BUT then the back bore is 65 mm instead of 63.3 as required by the Ford fitting.

I think that I might be onto a solution though. I think that the key is to find a wheel that comes in the widths and diameters you want, that comes in both Ford and Peugeot fitment but also uses a spigot (insert) to make the back bore correct rather than being machined to 65 on a Peugeot fit wheel, 63.3 on a Ford fit wheel.

You will need to research this yourself because no alloy wheel suppliers I have contacted seem willing to help.

Confused? I am. Probably better to "do it properly", get your wallet out and get a TVR specialist to sort you out! Cheap alloys probably don't exist!

Although I am still looking..........

[chris43]

Paul,
What exactly do you mean by ' back bore' or am I being ' fick '?
Cheers,
Chris.

[paul garabette]

The back bore is the hole in the centre at the back of the wheel. It needs to be of the correct size to centre the wheel on the hub.......apparently.

[deeen]

paul garabette said:

I'm looking into getting some "off the shelf" alloys at the moment. It's very difficult to find suitable alloys as the fronts need a low offset (ET25) which is not standard Ford, whereas the rears offset(ET 35 ish) is. The fronts seem to be the size for a Peugeot 307 BUT then the back bore is 65 mm instead of 63.3 as required by the Ford fitting. I think that I might be onto a solution though. I think that the key is to find a wheel that comes in the widths and diameters you want, that comes in both Ford and Peugeot fitment but also uses a spigot (insert) to make the back bore correct rather than being machined to 65 on a Peugeot fit wheel, 63.3 on a Ford fit wheel. You will need to research this yourself because no alloy wheel suppliers I have contacted seem willing to help. Confused? I am. Probably better to "do it properly", get your wallet out and get a TVR specialist to sort you out! Cheap alloys probably don't exist! Although I am still looking..........

if its just for trackdays, two cheap pegwots and two cheap frrds

[joospeed]

i use 16inch ex sierra cosworth alloys on the S (same hubs) with no probs ..
the central bit doesn't matter too much, it's the clamping of the wheel onto the hub that stops it moving, the hole bit is just a belt and braces thing to align it centrally when you first offer teh wheel up. I remember the first cerbera wheels came with completely the wrong centra hold iameter and as long as you did the wheel nuts up sensibly to align it on the bolts you were ok, so no big deal there.