I'm in the process of getting my Ghia set up for a club autocross at Road America next month and realized that the 14 inch Datsun wheels I purchased last year (with the intent to re-drill to a 4x4.25 pattern) can't be re-drilled because the center hole is too large. As I see it, aside from buying different wheels, my options are: 1) Purchase wheel adapters. Anyone have any experience with these things? 2) Re-drill the rotors and axle flanges for a 4x4.5 pattern; 3) Run on the little 13" wheels and get laughed at. Any thoughts?
I'm not a wheel expert........but I think that if the wheel nut seats are the tapered type and work with a tapered nut then the wheel center size is rather unimportant as the load is taken at the nut/wheel interface. If I way off base somebody please jump in. Later
I never got laughed at drag racing with 13X9 wheels with 22X8 autocross slicks on them...what's wrong with 13" You always have the option of finding 14" or 15" FOX platform car wheels, or for total "WHY" factor you can try '65 Mustang/Falcon 4-lug axles that directly fit the Datsun wheels (only fixes the rear though).
