Spridget Shop/Roll Around wheels

Rob Futcher

Rob Futcher

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Looking for 4X4" wheels to use to sit the car on in the workshop, trailer and to roll around the paddock on.

I want them to be bigger diameter than the std 8/20/13 slicks to give some more ground clearance - and also very narrow.

Has anyone found a good solution for this? Trailer wheels/tires? Just to add a little complication, I need very little backspace to fit on the rear and clear the upper trailing arm.......
 
The original wheels will work for the front, but not the back due to the trailing arms... the race wheels have 1/2" back space. I could get away with about an 1 - 1.5" of backspace for this.
 
Rob:

Try this using stock wheels, tires, and lug nuts. Screw 4 lug nuts onto the studs flat side first all the way tight against the hub. Then put the wheel on outside in, and tighten on 4 more lug nuts flat side first. Looking at a stock Sprite wheel, looks like this gives you about zero backspace. I wouldn't take it full throttle sideways over dragon teeth, but think it will work for your stated purpose.

Please let us know if this works for you.

Tom
 
I have used stock wheels with spacers at the rear for years. My offset is 3.5" so i think Tom's suggestion about reversing the wheel may work fine. If the offset works I'm not sure you need to use the reverse lug nuts just for rolling around. When i went to the duel piston Wilwoods I had to add more spacers to clear the calipers. i actually tried reversing the wheels with out reverse nuts. Worked fine.
 
How about a piece of wood? I sent a car to the crusher rolling on a pair of these. Also look at 4-100 ecno spares, you can always redrill them, and there should be a few thousand Miata ones out there.

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Thanks for the ideas - I like the idea of space savers and also (via IM) Morris Minor wheels with space saver or motorcycle tires mounted on them.

Does anyone have any Minor wheels by chance?
 
Rob, I have a street Bugeye with 155R80 tires on stock wheels. They are about 22.5 inch OD, so you would gain over an inch of ground clearance compared to the slicks, and only 5 .5 wide. The Spridget wheels are 4 on a 4.0 inch circle, but only 3/8 inch stud diameter stock.
I have 4 Bugeye wheels for sale cheap if you need them, and lugnuts -maybe.
I suspect motorcycle and trailer tires would be more expensive than cheap car tires, which are in the $30-40 range at Walmart or on-line. Good luck. Joel
 
I have some stock Bugeye wheels with dry rotted rain tires that were last used at least 35 years ago (trust me FormulaV ain't saving these). You could just have them if you want to send me your race schedule and somebody from here was going there, or some other easy delivery was possible.
 
For R.J.S. : I stated the width of my 155R80 tires (sidewall-to-sidewall) as mounted and inflated on stock Bugeye 3.5 inch wheels. Joel
 
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