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SCWDP- Shock and Awe Dept
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Norco, CA
Posts: 3,311
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This makes me ponder a few things…
Planning on new wheels for the track and maintaining the Fuch look there are five basic choices.
Factory Fuchs- great wheels getting older w/ unknown history
Replica Fuchs- cast and not considered good for much more than tooling around town on.
Linsey P2 type wheels- factory Fuch center welded into a forged rim, +17”.
Linsey P3 type wheels- factory Fuch center bolted into a split rim, +17”.
Rota fake Fuchs- a cast (?) Fuch look-a-like w/ a good reputation (outside of the Porsche world), +17”.
With failures like this, why would I want to spend twice as much to put an old Fuch center into a forged rim, welded or bolted? It almost makes the Rota wheel sound like the best choice here, although I’m not completely convinced.
Also, if a Fuch center can be welded into a forged rim why can’t this failure be taken care of the same way. Granted its unknown how the rest of the wheel will react if at all but it should be able to be welded good as new, at least as far as that crack is concerned.
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Ryan Williams, SCWDP
'81 911SC Targa 3.6
'81 911SC Coupe 3.2 #811
'64 VW Camper Bus, lil' Blue
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