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[retroracer1380]

Ive got a set of the jap wheel which clear 8.4s, i still had to grind my 4pots though to clear, dont listen to the C**p people say about these giving poor handling and eating bearings. I havnt had any wheel bearing trouble and my car still handles very well. To be honest most these idiots are running 13x7 inch deep dish ******* anyway.

[Pie]

As oli said, he doesnt go through bearings, he breaks his gearbox *cough*saturday*cough*

[retroracer1380]

As oli said, he doesnt go through bearings, he breaks his gearbox *cough*saturday*cough*

Least i have a mini on the road pie faced jew

[Pie]

your going a bit off topic now oli. And lets face it the only jew is dan scoooooby dooby jewwwww

[retroracer1380]

your going a bit off topic now oli. And lets face it the only jew is dan scoooooby dooby jewwwww

Sorry mister midlands, let sit on the comp instead of fixing the mini!

[Nickh_16]

Hey RetroRacer1380 i gotta say they look AWESOME on your mini, are those group 2 arches on your car? why do they say you need sportspack for them if they fit with group 2's? i'm guessing these wheels are about identical to minispeeds ones which you can use with the 8.4 set up?

CHeers Nick

[Pie]

As oli said in his post he is running his with 8.4s but had to grind a bit off his 4pot callipers so they would fit. He is running group6 arches, which IIRC are the same width as sportspack arches.

They will only fit under grp2 arches if you are running 7.5" cooper s disc setup.

[Nickh_16]

Ahh well my car's a 1975 with drums all round so that should be ok then?

Has anyone got any pics of Minispeeds wheels with group 2 arches??

Edited by Nickh_16, 14 November 2007 - 07:32 PM.

[retroracer1380]

Hey RetroRacer1380 i gotta say they look AWESOME on your mini, are those group 2 arches on your car? why do they say you need sportspack for them if they fit with group 2's? i'm guessing these wheels are about identical to minispeeds ones which you can use with the 8.4 set up?

CHeers Nick

My arches are huddersfield spares group 6 arches, and the wheel s are the same as in the link below:
http://www.minispeed...amp;id=wheel01s

You could run them on drums all round (im guessing your on non spacer drums), but obviously they wouldnt fill as wide as when running discs, also they should be ok where fouling dampers/radius arms are concerned do to the built in spacers.

[retroracer1380]

They will only fit under grp2 arches if you are running 7.5" cooper s disc setup.

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Wrong again mister midlands! They will have pretty much the same offset as any other standard disc set up u tard, and def not fit under group 2s

[Nickh_16]

Wrong again mister midlands! They will have pretty much the same offset as any other standard disc set up u tard, and def not fit under group 2s

So yours wouldn't fit under group 2's? so does this mean you and Amy have different wheels because hers fit under wood and picket ones?

[retroracer1380]

Wrong again mister midlands! They will have pretty much the same offset as any other standard disc set up u tard, and def not fit under group 2s

So yours wouldn't fit under group 2's? so does this mean you and Amy have different wheels because hers fit under wood and picket ones?

Yeh u can now get some s replica alloy rims without the big offset, they would be the ones you need, however you may need to run spacer drums alround to avoid scrubbing on radius arms and dampers

[syholl]

Wrong again mister midlands! They will have pretty much the same offset as any other standard disc set up u tard, and def not fit under group 2s

So yours wouldn't fit under group 2's? so does this mean you and Amy have different wheels because hers fit under wood and picket ones?

Yeh u can now get some s replica alloy rims without the big offset, they would be the ones you need, however you may need to run spacer drums alround to avoid scrubbing on radius arms and dampers

Actually, Amy's ones have the built in spacer fitted as well. You can clearly see it on the back when you remove the wheel. Also, i tried fitting them on my Mini Van which has 8.4" discs, and they cleared them with no probs. As Amy mentioned on either this thread, or one of the other various threads about these wheels, they do stick out slightly past the W&P arches on her estate, but they don't stick out a great deal. I posted a picture up somewhere of her car with these wheels on.

There is a lot of bulls**t surrounding these wheels, that they stick out a massive amount, and they go through bearings. It's all nonsense as far as i'm concerned. We actually have the wheels on our car, and it hasn't eaten the bearings, and the spacers are only about an inch wide, so its no big deal really. The car handles better with them on,. and they look great...

[GraemeC]

If you have drums all round they won't stick out as far as those who have them on disc set ups - about 3/4" less in fact. So you would probably get away with Group 2s.
Also - not every supplier's group 2 arches are the same, these days it is more a style than a precise standard. It a bit like the different stages of cylinder head - no two are the same!

As mentioned somewhere above there is also a version without built in spacers which are avaible from Mini Sport (and probably elsewhere) however on a drum brake set up these will proabably end up far too narrow as they are intended to fit to the Cooper S 7.5" discs.

[Guess-Works.com]

If you're running drums you want reverse rims as that is exactly the purpose they were made for...