Stronger spiders...really?
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Just got to the buying guide section of Evo to see the Tuscan featured.
It says that later cars were fitted with reinforced wheels to prevent bending. This is the first time I've ever heard this. Power and STR8SIX were interviewed so info could have come from them but I'm sure it would have been more common knowledge before now if true..
It says that later cars were fitted with reinforced wheels to prevent bending. This is the first time I've ever heard this. Power and STR8SIX were interviewed so info could have come from them but I'm sure it would have been more common knowledge before now if true..
My second Tuscan was built in late 2000 with 18" spiders. I managed to buckle one of the front ones on a track day running over a curb and got it replaced at the factory in mid-late 2001 and the replacement had a thicker rim on the inside. So yes they did change the design but it was very early in the life of the spider, probably within a year, I'm sure all the original soft ones have been replaced a long time ago.
Surprised to hear this for the first time too. It's not as if buckled spider wheels hasn't been a topic of discussion over the years....many times over!
Amongst other things, strength over spiders was one of the selling points of SP wheels that quite a few folk went with after buckling their spiders.
Amongst other things, strength over spiders was one of the selling points of SP wheels that quite a few folk went with after buckling their spiders.
As I said guys I have first hand experience of this in 2001 and remember picking up my Tuscan from a factory service in mid-late 2001 and Heath showing me the old buckled front wheel and the replacement with a distinctly thicker band around the inner rim. I remember thinking it looked quite crude (to cast in more allow in a band like that) so maybe it was a knee-jerk quick fix at that point in time and the design was subsequently changed again...
TVR had a habit of changing specs as they went along, my first Tuscan didn't have the roof locking mechanism on the leading edge when delivered in Feb 2000, after a few of the early cars lost their roofs Hawthorns told me they had to recall my car and apply the official TVR fix, which was a plastic back containing some super glue to try and improve the windscreen surround rubber seal to the roof. As it happened that wasn't the problem so their next attempt was to fit the extra latch on the roof....
TVR had a habit of changing specs as they went along, my first Tuscan didn't have the roof locking mechanism on the leading edge when delivered in Feb 2000, after a few of the early cars lost their roofs Hawthorns told me they had to recall my car and apply the official TVR fix, which was a plastic back containing some super glue to try and improve the windscreen surround rubber seal to the roof. As it happened that wasn't the problem so their next attempt was to fit the extra latch on the roof....
dvs_dave said:
Surprised to hear this for the first time too. It's not as if buckled spider wheels hasn't been a topic of discussion over the years....many times over!
Amongst other things, strength over spiders was one of the selling points of SP wheels that quite a few folk went with after buckling their spiders.
Yep, I went to SP's. Amongst other things, strength over spiders was one of the selling points of SP wheels that quite a few folk went with after buckling their spiders.
There have been plenty of examples on here of later models with buckled spider's.
so called said:
dvs_dave said:
Surprised to hear this for the first time too. It's not as if buckled spider wheels hasn't been a topic of discussion over the years....many times over!
Amongst other things, strength over spiders was one of the selling points of SP wheels that quite a few folk went with after buckling their spiders.
Yep, I went to SP's. Amongst other things, strength over spiders was one of the selling points of SP wheels that quite a few folk went with after buckling their spiders.
There have been plenty of examples on here of later models with buckled spider's.
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