Salutory story of the week I'm afraid. Having assiduously read the forum and taken advice from all comers, I finally plumped for a set of Interceptor III alloys. Much wonga later they look glorious with polished highlights against an old gold background. 205/65 15 tyres to give the right rolling diameter and its time to fit them (new alloy wheel nuts etc etc).
The tyre size is no problem provided that the wheel lies centrally within the rear "mudguard" formed by the boot sides and the rear extension of the D post.
But of course the offset is not correct and they don't!
I reckon they need to go into the centre of the car by about 25mm (thats an inch to the elderly and illiterate like me).
By skimming the back face of the wheel, re-sleeving the stud holes and using a different wheel nut I reckon you could win at maximum 12mm. Other tricks considered were shortening the de dion tube and the half shafts to pull the hubs and trailing arms in (rejected as too radical for a show quality car - but feasible for a pure performance orientated daily user), skimming the face of the hubs (rejected as impractical from an engineering perspective and generating too many unknowns in the strength and durability field) and performing surgery on the offending portion of D post (rejected as introducing too many problems with mounting the rear door rubber seal if taken far enough to be effective).
I spoke to the chap who is selling the silver car currently on e bay that is pictured wearing these wheels and it transpires he is running 205/50's, which of course takes the rolling radius down far enough to mitigate the problem.
Anybody out there got any other stunts to solve this problem before the Jensen wheels go back on e bay and I start again with SD1 Vitesse wheels?
Depressed of Bristol
Chris York
The tyre size is no problem provided that the wheel lies centrally within the rear "mudguard" formed by the boot sides and the rear extension of the D post.
But of course the offset is not correct and they don't!
I reckon they need to go into the centre of the car by about 25mm (thats an inch to the elderly and illiterate like me).
By skimming the back face of the wheel, re-sleeving the stud holes and using a different wheel nut I reckon you could win at maximum 12mm. Other tricks considered were shortening the de dion tube and the half shafts to pull the hubs and trailing arms in (rejected as too radical for a show quality car - but feasible for a pure performance orientated daily user), skimming the face of the hubs (rejected as impractical from an engineering perspective and generating too many unknowns in the strength and durability field) and performing surgery on the offending portion of D post (rejected as introducing too many problems with mounting the rear door rubber seal if taken far enough to be effective).
I spoke to the chap who is selling the silver car currently on e bay that is pictured wearing these wheels and it transpires he is running 205/50's, which of course takes the rolling radius down far enough to mitigate the problem.
Anybody out there got any other stunts to solve this problem before the Jensen wheels go back on e bay and I start again with SD1 Vitesse wheels?
Depressed of Bristol
Chris York
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