Re: Stock rule's

[Iain Mannix <mannix@privateI.com>]

Shawn wrote in reference to Southpark....
>That one isnt even the more funny one's either! You've got alot to enjoy
>ahead of you my friend!

Heh, excellent!  Hee hee hee, I just got such a kick out of that "speaking
of pounding...." bit, the wording was hysterical.  I have seen the
Christmas one, too - that was pretty funny, although I was not really
paying attention to it at the time.  Have to look at it again!

>
>Oh, content..... can you use ANY wheel as long as its within the specs of
>the stock size wheels? IE, does it have to be a VW wheel?

Any wheel provided it is stock diameter/width & +/- 1/4" offset.  It always
surprises me that not many people in Stock go out and get silly light
wheels for their cars - I guess Miata wheels are light to begin with, and
the American Racing type 24 is popular in Neon land, but I'd have thought
more would get a set of _light_ wheels.  Hell, if I ever go to Stock(not
damned likely:), I won't know what to do without a LONG list of things to
do to the car, and I am sure I'd get a set of Welds or something.  BTW, the
people at Weld Racing(who made the wheels Kevin and I have) claimed 9
pounds 9 ounces for a 13x8" wheel.  I got my 13x9s, first impression was
something like "there's no way in hell these are going to fit on my car..."
as they were SO wide.  Took one outside, yup, it fits.  Cool.  Weighed it
on a postal scale - just a _shade_ over 10 pounds.  Maybe 10 pounds 1
ounce?  Less than an ounce?  He claimed 9# 9oz for an 8" wheel, said the 9s
would weigh "a bit more."  7 ounces extra for 1" wider?  I think that's
reasonable.  I am _very_ happy with the wheels - very round, balance well,
light, seemingly strong.  Supposedly, their "new" roadrace wheels are
simply their circle track/sprint car wheels with the right bolt holes.
Heh, if they're OK on a World of Outlaws Fri-Sat-SUNDAY!!!! car, they
should be just fine on an autocross/time trial car.

I was originally going to go with Keizers, which are also an aluminium 3
piece wheel.  13x8 Keizers are claimed to be 8# each.  Many I have talked
to have wound up with 9# wheels or so - not that big of a deal, and I was
curious to see what I got from Weld.  Weld(Jeff Jordan, Motorsports Sales
guy) admitted that the Keizers were lighter, but he claimed his wheels
would be damned close to 9/9 - they were.  OK.  I have also seen many leaky
Keizers - had one guy tell me that "they were only leaking 2 pounds a run."
Huh?  No thanks.  Many people are happy with Keizers, so they can't all be
bad, but it almost seems to me that people figure you have to put up with
leaks and noise for a light wheel.  Keizers also get noisy as hell - the
aluminium galls or something - sounds like there are a couple dozen ball
bearings in the tire.  No thanks.  So far, the Keizers have not leaked or
made noise - I'll take the extra 2#(if that) for reliability - Jordan did
say that his wheels would not leak for "a while, if at all."  I get the
impression that he would not put up with leaky/noisy wheels.

I really liked Jordan - he did not go off on tangents about how bad the
competitors were.  He "had heard" of Keizers leaking, "had heard" that
Duralights can crack.  Focused more on what his wheels would and would not
do, and if I asked him what he thought about his competition, he was very
professional about it - none of the painfully common "they suck" bit I
often hear.  Locally, some people who use Duralights(the owners of the DSP
Truck from Hell) claim that some friends in Nevada or CA had been using
Duralights on a Camaro or something, and had a wheel break off - and
Duralight's supposed response was "they should be replaced every year or
two."  Umm, no, not for $180 a wheel.  The Truck people recommended
_strongly_ against Duralights - not because they had something to sell
us(they did not), but as friends.

On a more personal note, Duralight never returned my calls.  Finally talked
to them, they were very "yes/no."  Ok.  Talked to Keizer, and A) I could
get the Welds cheaper, and B) the guy was kind of a jerk.  Very personal,
take with a lot of sodium, but something that matters to me.  I won't buy
from jerks(well, that's not true, bought an intake manifold from Shine
today.....hee hee hee, if you read the newsgroup, you know what I'm
laughing at, bunch of wierdos....)


Bed.  Just went to Titanic, I'm not taking a shower for the rest of my
life.  Water = bad.


I.Mannix


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