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Tires and wheels

snamelc

snamelc

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I'm going to wire wheels from steel and am collecting the necessary parts to do so. I have a Series II that was originally fitted with 13 x 4 inch wheels with 5.60x13 inch tires. I would like to not screw up the speedometer reading when I choose a metric tire size/wheel combination. I'm certainly open to going to a 14 or 15 inch wheel with a lower profile tire if it makes life easier in buying tires. I'd like to hear some of your more successful solutions to this problem.

Thanks
Bill
 
serIIalpine

serIIalpine

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A 14 or 15 INCH tire is not a metric tire.

While the tires they sell are not vintage style the TIRERACK.com does have a section where you can look up the specs of the tire you are interested in. The diameters are listed there. More importantly so are the revs per mile.

Good luck


Eric

'62 SerII
 
atallamcs

atallamcs

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wheels

I found for early Alpines, staying with the 13" wires and using a 185x70 tire looks right. It is the correct height and a bit wider to fill out the wells. My Harrington runs that configuration.
Bill
 
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