Period Correct 5 Wide Wheels

Go with the holes, I have never seen a speedster with solid wheels. Real or replica.I'm doing the same conversion to my car at the moment 4 to 5 with wheel skins

Mr. GT: I believe original Porsche wide-5 wheels were mfr'd by Lemmerz and/or KPZ. Don't know if either mfr'd for VW.

I believe Mangel also mfr'd wheels for VW. I admit to margin-of-error here, requiring further research.

Have heard/read of a recent Chinese wide-5 clone and recall negative feedback (terrible mat'ls engineering)...

I had some saved links with pix...given some time I can possible retrieve/post them.

 

ADD:These are also nice wheels   http://www.thesamba.com/vw/cla...etail.php?id=1393678 (verify the date of sale-adv'g other Porsche wheels)

Mangel were pretty nice as I recall.I have a friend that has a porsche shop(now closed up) that sold off a lot of his stuff 2 years ago at a swap meet, had 2 sets of new in the box mangals, I think he sold them for $200 a set, or might of been for all 8. I had no clue I would have one of these cars then.(I still may have no clue)

Those Gurney wheels listed on SAMBA are not the wide 5's you are looking for.  They are the 5x130mm later style (like on 911/912 and late 356C).  I'd be leary of buying old VW/Porsche wide five wheel - as I doubt they have the safety bead (required for tubeless tires) and would require tubes.

Not sure which ones these are but i had them put on the car when I had VS build it.  If this is what you are looking for - VS would know.

Those look great; also Carey Hines at Beck carries great wide five wheels with the correct silver finish. Check out the link:

 

http://www.beckspeedster.com/b...e/wheelsalepage.html

I have wide fives on Beck and they are awesome. 

 

https://www.speedsterowners.com/clip/2557660019208789

Joe:

 

You have a Dialog from me

FYI, when using drum skins in the front, they may have to be trimmed to clear the calipers if using discs. They did on mine wth CSP discs.

They will fit over SoCal Imports (AC Industries) systems; I believe EMPIs also because they're copies.

Thanks, Ricardo, I didn't know that. So CSP is the only "problem" brakes with drumskins? 

I would imagine so because it's not a common complaint. Not everybody has the luxury of a CSP brake system in their cars, though, you know what I mean? Wink, wink.

How much do a set of drumskinz run? 

There doesn't seem to be a price on the fibre steel website. 

Thanks

The ones most people use are the ones from CB Performance at about $90.00 per set.

Thank you. 

That's where I'll go!

There are several interference issues with drumskins, no matter who you buy them from. Same interference issues with the brake calipers (except Wilwood) and also some with wheels (even my own). It is simply a matter of a design based on tight tolerances and several parts manufactured with looser tolerances. It's not a big deal though, just know that if your skins won't slip in past the welds in your wheels, they need trimmed. Likewise if they contact the calipers, they need trimmed. Period. Trimmed properly you cannot tell at all once the wheel is on the car.