Re: wheel no-no's.

[Alan Stamper <stamper@iwaynet.net>]

At 08:27 PM 5/18/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Today I learned that if you own a set of "Sparco Racing Wheels" (thats 
>the brand brand name. Im not sure of the actual wheel name but its 
>simular to a BBS RS-II web or mesh pattern.) and you also autox on 
>them, you might just want to get rid of them right now! A friend of 
>mine driving a Honda Civic EX at the track today completely broke the 
>center out of the wheel while going through a mildly long left hander. 
>Luckily, there was only slight damage to the car.
>

I have never seen or heard of these type of wheels, but I have seen the
same thing happen to a saturn on factory steel wheels.  It wasn't a pretty
sight, but it didn't hurt the car much.

Alan

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