10 hole / 8 hole wheels

8 hole are usually 4 bolt and are vw wheels.  10 hole is more authentic to what Porsche used on the 356.

Thanks, Todd. Hence my confusion. I've got 5 bolt wheels with 10 holes but on a '67 VW frame / transaxle. I thought my drums would be standard VW stuff.

 

I thought about you three weeks ago while doing the West loop around Orange Park. Thanks for the offer to help if needed.

Hmmm.  I don't know?  I had the 5 bolt 10 hole on a 67vw transaxle also but disc brakes all around.  My first Speedie had 8 hole 4 bolt with drums.  

 

You are welcome btw!  Next year if your trip brings you through charlotte or close to, I will be there to help!

Beetles until 1967 had 5x205mm lug pattern wheels and drums, the 4x130 starting in '68. The wheels on '66's and '67's did come with holes like the Porsche 5x205 wheels, but I don't know the hole count.

Thanks for the clarification, Al. My interest is an older IM...importable to Canada being a replica over the age of 15 years, and has 8 hole wheels, thus being '68 or older. It's a Roadster on a pan frame, making it a bit of an oddball really, but....I'm not really normal at the best of times anyway. :-)

Just happened to go on a local club's "Loafer's Lunch" ride today with 15 other cars, two of which were Replicas and took pictures of a few wheels (handy, huh?)

 

This is the 8-hole reproduction wheel that Henry uses on his IM builds (this one from Peter Venuti's Roadster):

 

 

 

Notice how deftly I composed that shot to include Peter on the right (red windbreaker) while I am hidden within the Porsche Hub Crest.....

 

And this is the original 10-hole rim used on the original 356A (5 X 130 Bolt Pattern)

 

 

 

Those are NOT "Drumskins" on the wheel above - those are original, "pray-that-they're-gonna-stop" drum brakes all around.....    At least you get to see me this time!

 

These 10-hole original rims are approaching "Unobtanium" pricing these days, simply because they are rusting away.  The next closest thing is a set of CNC-made reproductions, like Marty's Coddingtons or something, but they're gonna set you back an arm and a leg, too - Good stuff don't come cheap.  Even original, forged, polished-spoke Fuchs are going for $1,200 per wheel......  

 

Hope this helps!  gn

I think most play 9 or 18 holes  

Gordon- isn't the wheel lug pattern on the 356A 5x205mm?

 

"...those are original, "pray-that-they're-gonna-stop" drum brakes all around..." 

 

I was of the understanding that the Porsche drum brakes worked really well; is this not so?

 

If you're going to use a hubcap anyway, Beck offers a 10-hole 4-lug wheel.

> On May 21, 2015, at 1:30 PM, SpeedsterOwners.com <alerts@hoop.la> wrote:
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Yup. TRahn a I both have these. Gives the car a more authentic look. They are very inexpensive. I was going to powdercoat my wheels anyway.

Bill:

 

Put them on the 356 Registry Classifieds:

 

https://porsche356registry.org/classifieds/6606

ALB,

   The Porsche drum brakes work really well. But it will now cost between 3 and 4 G's to do it. In the 70's you could buy a whole car for around $1,200 bucks, put the engine and brakes on your VW and junk the rest of the car. This was in Chicago and the cars were rusted out to the door handles. Today they would fix them...

" . . .rusted out to the door handles"

 

My old '56 A coupe left my garage in the early 80's, hand carried in three pieces.  I think they cut the top off and then the front and back just fell apart.  But it had a really sweet 1600 N engine in it.  Blueprinted in '66 and ran smooth as glass.

They are super little motors. Just know that you can't soup em up and turn them to 7,000 and expect them to last. Ask me how I know

Yeah, I know how expensive that stuff is now. I (in the mid '80's) bought a 356 C? transaxle and the front trailing arms/spindles from the same car (all complete with disc brakes) for $600, and traded them for a pair of 6x15 and 7x15 (4 wheels in total) Fuchs alloys.

 

I was surprised at Gordon's "pray they're gonna stop" comment about the drum brakes, is all.

Back in the mid 80s I bought a dune buggy and was looking for some better front brakes.  I found a complete Porsche 356 front end (beam/suspension/drum brakes/steering box) at an auto wrecker and bought it for $75.

I never did install it in my buggy and after 6 or 7 years I took it all to the scrap yard.

If I knew then what I know now.......