Tarantula rims, Magnesium?

[pbureau@attbi.com (pbureau@attbi.com)]

I need to check if Ron pieper or someone elser in OH, 
stuill has my warped set of Tanratula's I swapped for 
polished teardrops...??

who's got my old rims... maybe we could "burn" one at 
cincy (muahahahaha..FIIIIIIIITTTTTTZZZZZZZZZ)

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ATS - Patrick Bureau
1985 8v Euro GTX 3A/JH Project
1988 16v Euro GT Project
> You wont disappoint me, you will disappoint me when you show VW
> literature that says those Gti rims were magnesium. Im happy to stand
> corrected. I may out and ask Meze to spoon me that night in bed, but he
> enjoys that crap. I just find it hard to believe after purchasing rims
> for various vintage race cars all in Magnesium. Ive got a couple trashed
> GT40, Indycar, CanAm rims, maybe I should put up on ebay for Civic rims!
> 
> Show me where VW (that is what I was referring to as a production
> company) mass produced a magnesium rim for a economy car. 
> 
> http://www.jsm-autosport.cz/autosport/paramt.htm
> Are these rims on every car that rolls out of Skoda/VW? They appear to
> be an aftermarket rim. It does say something on the Escort Cossie which
> again was a limited production high performance vehicle. No very
> comparable to a beater rabbit GTi. 
> 
> http://www.ram.mc/RC51/goodies/rc51goodies_fichiers/wheelsram.jpg
> These wheels are not for cars. They do indeed come on Ducatis from the
> factory but I think you can hardly compare the production numbers of an
> Italian Sport Bike with that of a early 70s econo box. 
> 
> Shannon Fenton
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pbureau@attbi.com [mailto:pbureau@attbi.com] 
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:19 AM
> To: Fenton, Shannon
> Cc: Allyn; Larry; jester@westfailure.net; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: RE: Tarantula rims, Magnesium?
> 
> 
> hate to disapoint you in your "manufacturers are not dum 
> enough to do this"
> 
> please follow the linsk below for multi[ple example of 
> magnesium wheels sold by manufacturers.
> cars...
> http://www.jsm-autosport.cz/autosport/paramt.htm
> bikes.. http://www.ram.mc/RC51/goodies/rc51goodies_fichiers/wheel
> sram.jpg
> 
> this was a quickie search with yahoo.
> they make magnesiumj (mostly magnesioum not ONLY 
> magnesium based rims of course, like aluminium wheels, 
> magnesium wheels are an alloy of there of the chemical 
> component which is in greater amount.
> 
> yes vw had 13" tanrantula magnesium wheels.
> 
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> ATS - Patrick Bureau
> 1985 8v Euro GTX 3A/JH Project
> 1988 16v Euro GT Project
> > Good god, you all cant be f-ing serious. There has never been a 
> > factory production rim made out of magnesium. A friend of mine had to 
> > hire a guy to come into his garage 3 times a week to keep all the 
> > magnesium rims on the race cars from oxidizing and falling apart. He 
> > spends 1 hour per car, and there are 12 cars in his collection, the 
> > guy makes 13 bucks an hour. Magnesium sucks to polish. And no, you 
> > cant just clear coat a set of Ford GT40 rims. Do you honestly think 
> > any car maker out there would make production wheels out of this 
> > stuff?
> > 
> > Jesus, the list hits a all new low.
> > 
> > Shannon
> > www.scirocco16v.com
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Allyn [mailto:amalventano1@comcast.net]
> > Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 8:23 AM
> > To: Larry; jester@westfailure.net; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > Subject: Re: Tarantula rims, Magnesium?
> > 
> > 
> > bah, just hit the whole wheel with the torch :) :) :)
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Larry" <rocco16v@netzero.com>
> > To: <jester@westfailure.net>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 11:12 PM
> > Subject: Re: Tarantula rims, Magnesium?
> > 
> > 
> > > Steve-
> > >   With a chisel, cut off a tiny piece of the wheel.
> > >  Apply acetylene torch to said tiny piece.
> > > If it melts, it's aluminum.
> > > If it burns quite spectacularly, it's magnesium.
> > > 
> > > Larry
> > > 
> > > how do you tell the difference between the magnesium and aluminium
> > > > ones (assuming that there are both out there.)
> > > > 
> > > > take care,
> > > > 
> > > > Steve
> > >  
> > > 
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