RE: Richard's 15" wheels (was: re: Offset when welding wider rims on steel wheels)

["Ian Lomax" <sfalfisto@xxxxxxxxx>]

Saab makes a 15"x 6" steel wheels in a 4x108 bolt pattern, but the hub
center is a bit small.  I would find one or a set of these before going
through the pain of widening 30 year old steelies.  They should fit on a
spider or GTV, but I'm not sure the offset is correct to fit under a
Sedan's rear fenders.

Cheers,
Ian Lomax


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-alfa@domain.elided [mailto:owner-alfa@domain.elided] On 
> Behalf Of John Hertzman
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 8:37 PM
> To: alfa@domain.elided
> Subject: Richard's 15" wheels (was: re: Offset when welding 
> wider rims on steel wheels) 
> 
> 
> Responding to Biba's "According to Fusi, Alfa had switched to 
> the 1750 by '68,
> along with 14" rims", Richard Welty writes "my early 68 GTV 
> 1750 has 15" steel
> wheels which are stock so far as i know."
> 
> Parts books, including the Catalogo Rapido, all agree with 
> Biba and Fusi, and
> without checking I will wager that all earliest new-model 
> road tests of the
> 1750s will list 14". Perhaps somebody among the early owners 
> of Richard's car
> preferred the lighter steering and tossable handling of the 
> 155-15s he was
> used to from the earlier cars over the new-fangled 165-14.
> 
> Biba also wrote that the Spider of which the question was 
> initially asked
> "should have the stainless hubcaps with the smaller plastic 
> black ring." I was
> about to agree with him but ran into a Groucho Marx type 
> question, who ya
> gonna believe - - The parts books all show 1750 GT Veloces 
> and Berlinas
> sharing a hubcaps with the larger plastic black ring, and 
> 1750 Spiders using
> the one with the smaller ring, (which had first appeared on 
> the 1600 Sprint GT
> Veloce) but the photographic evidence, in Fusi and elsewhere, 
> shows the
> Spiders using the same hupcaps as the coupes and sedans, year 
> for year.
> 
> Tangent to the subject heading, from fractured wheels I have 
> seen I would be
> very antsy about mounting wide, grippy tires on wider rims on 
> 15" wheel cores.
> You might get away with it, but - -
> 
> John H.
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