This thing is bad ass
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This thing is bad ass
Right now it has the steel flange nuts and short aluminum spacers shown in the picture. I thought about the aluminum lugs, but more importantly the beadlock bolts. I keep looking for a deal on titanium bolts. There are 96 5/16"X1.25" grade 8 bolts around the outside of the rims!
I'm about to change studs and was going to eliminate the spacer/washer all together. I need to find a aluminum lug I like first. We were going to use titanium bolts in our beadlock until countless others told us that you will break at least 1 or 2 bolts each time you change tires. I guess the titanium gulls up real bad no matter how much anti seeze you use.
Good info on titanium, thanks.
I wanted to keep the small aluminum lug spacers for 2 reasons. To prevent galling the wheel center, plus there is a small amount of the unthreaded stud shank protruding through the wheel so the lug won't fully tighten against the wheel without it.
Awesome work again Joe!! Beautiful car.
Thanks Chris!
I spent Sunday afternoon swapping out the 275 Pro's for a set of M/T 28X10.5W's. The car will fit a 29.5X10.5W, but my converter and gearing work well on 28's so I'll try these out. I knew the radials were heavy and expected to save a bit with the slicks. The slicks are 3 lbs lighter each, but the tubes weigh 6 lbs so it gained 3 lbs per wheel... I really loved the radials on a good track, and it had a best 60' of 1.10 at the old weight, but I want to be able to get down a marginal track more often and I'll probably try my luck at Milan's Outlaw 632 class at small block weight.
I also opted out on the titanium beadlock bolts for $370 and hit up Mcmaster Carr for a shiney new set of grade 8 bolts for $20 lol.
[IMG]https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1836/...da51c522_c.jpg20180812_123014 by Joe Pinsoneault, on Flickr[/IMG]
[IMG]https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1776/...66fbe807_c.jpg20180812_145727 by Joe Pinsoneault, on Flickr[/IMG]
$370 for bolts is a whole lot of ouch. What would the weight savings be between titanium and steel?