Porsche wheels on a Vintage

I have the usual VW wheels on my Speedster (2005 Vintage) and would like to change to original 356 wheels. Will they fit on my hubs? If not what do I need to do to make them work?

Happy Trails,
Dusty

Dusty my friend, are you looking to do the Wide 5 look, or Fuchs?

Either way it's a tricky thing to do depending on many factors. Let me know what wheel it is your looking to do and I'll do my best to guide you along.

From the looks of your car, Dusty, you have a 4 bolt pattern. You have 8 slots in your wheels instead of 10. You need a wide-five bolt pattern to run 356A wheels.
If you have enough room in the rear fender wells you could use adapters.

I have a set of 10-slot, 4-bolt wheels that Carey Hines made a few sets of. You might check to see if he has any left.

Dusty--you are trying to get AWAY from the 4 bolt wheels---right?

Call Kirk at Vintage because that's what is put on all those cars I believe for a more authentic Speedster look.

I apologize If I misunderstood you.----Jack

Been down that road on my '05 VS.
It takes a lil' time & patience..... but I love the results.
If you like, I'll tell ya what I learned!

Dusty - If you are going to run hubcaps, just see if you can find some 10 slot wheels (See Lanes picture). That's what Eddie Janis did. I think he got the last set of chrome 10 slots from Carey Hines and he still runs baby moons. If that is the look you want, it would be the most cost effective way to go. If you plan to run the wheels without hubcaps, showing the five bolt pattern, you have to change rotors, maybe spindle and in the rear, you have to change drums. I assume you already have disc brakes on the front. Now, I did all that because I wanted the racey look, but like I said, I changed out perfectly good disc and drum brakes to get the look. As you can see, both Ernie and I are running drum skins.

Something different. A set of fake Rudge knock off's .

Wow! Too many good choices. I am really only looking for the 10 slot look with my existing nipple hub caps. I will call Carey and see what is available. Might have to wait for awhile as we are off to North Carolina for the next 10 days. Thanks to all for the input. I may be back with more questions whe I return to Colorado.

Happy Trails,
Dusty

Taking this topic and increasing its knowledge level...


...Anyone knows the difference between stock VW 10-slot, 5-bolt wheels, and the Porsche ones?

I've seen some old VW wheels with 10-slot, but the slots looks more rectangular in shape, but I had nothing to compare them, and took no photos.


Anyone familiar with those wheels?

Pedro-to add to the "knowledge", I'll throw this comparative into the ring:
http://356registry.com/techinfo/repair/wheels.html

I know they're compatible, but are they the same (visually)? ;)

I like these ones with the knock off look on an original 356.

Pedro: Here is a picture of a couple stock VW rims. Regarding the wide-5 version, notice it has oval shaped holes. The Porsche wheels have more of a "D" shaped hole. Fortunately for you, the Porsche look-a-likes are a lot easier and less expensive to come by than the original VW wheels. The after market (Mangles, etc.) is based on the Porsche style.
http://content.mamotorworks.com/img300/fr4733.jpg

I agree - however, they guy that's helping me build the speedy has an original VW set - which need to be enlarged, but will cost me less money than the 356 replicas.

Also note that, here (locally), I can only find those cheap-looking chromed wheels (which I heard doesn't last long chromed) - and I wanted them non-chromed, no-hubcaps...





Thing is - would they look too bad?!
Since I'm spending money, should I just find better wheels here (Europe)?



Thanks!