Steelies v Alloys

[mikinoz]

I spoke to this dude on the phone...



and he put me on to this piece of information...

CAMS CLASSIC TARMAC REGS

7.11 Wheels and Tyres

Wheels and tyres must comply with Section E.
Wheels may be manufactured from aluminium alloy, steel or magnesium.

I am NOT endorsing putting steel rims on a Carerra GT, but if your Golf had steel rims originally, there is no reason that they will not cope with track use.

FWIW - all NASCARS run steel rims and the steel rim market for racing is large.

[Golfwise]

Nascars are not very technically advanced Mik a bit like you

[golf-kart]

Nascars are not very technically advanced Mik a bit like you

…..Anywho, getting back on track (and with no disrespect to vee_dub as I also owned a Mk3 GL) could a little GL Golf really tear the bejesus out of a modern steel rim?

[vee_dub]

Haha I afraid the 2L wont tear the steel wheels apart.

I just want the steel wheels to put my semi slicks on, to play around. HEHE

Well thx for all this replies.

Cheer,
Fred.

[irsa]

For your car steel wheels should be OK. But they will weigh more then a similar sized quality alloy wheel. Actually, in your case steel wheels make more sense as if you have an off the steel wheel will bend while most cheaper alloys will simply break. Just avoid TSW regardless of which way you go.

[gtimk5]

Hi irsa, soumds like you have had a bad experience? Please tell....

[gtimk5]

I used Mk3 wheels for the 1st couple of years on my competition Golf,(Gunter) but only with road radials. When I switched to competition tyres I went 15in mags. I wanted to know that I wasn't going to have a failure. Better to be safe than sorry, the last thing you want to be thinking about when high speed cornering is whether the wheels are going to stand up to it. You try and cover all bases so that when you are competing the only worries that you can think off is more power!