Minilite wheels

[Ricardo]

Can anyone recommend a supplier of minilites for a GT6?

[Pete Lewis]

apart from  all the normal triumph outlets   places like  https://midlandwheelaccessories.co.uk/

the world is full of them, the dodgy part is getting the correct offset and width to avoid suspension and body fouling, 

and certainly investigate fitting 7/16"unf or 12mm  wheel studs and nuts ,to replace the tired 3/8unf std ones 

Pete

[Mathew]

1 hour ago, Pete Lewis said:

apart from  all the normal triumph outlets   places like  https://midlandwheelaccessories.co.uk/

the world is full of them, the dodgy part is getting the correct offset and width to avoid suspension and body fouling, 

and certainly investigate fitting 7/16"unf or 12mm  wheel studs and nuts ,to replace the tired 3/8unf std ones 

Pete

The 12mm HT studs allow the fitment of mgf wheels

[SpitFire6]

1 hour ago, Mathew said:

The 12mm HT studs allow the fitment of mgf wheels

With a nice selection of wheels with ~30mm ET. Wheels stick in 10mm more than OEM.

[Ricardo]

Great, thank you.

[Bob Horner]

I've had a bit of fun with this.  I've gone for genuine minilites from Tyresave (based in the Northwest).  Good to deal with and best price I could find.  I've got "genuine" miniiltes on a TR4 and very pleased with them.  I went for 20mm offset (you can specify with minilites but it takes a bit longer for them to arrive) which is about factory (some say 22mm).  However, the lower wishbone caught on the rears (its very very close generally).  I solved it with a spacers (5mm off Ebay) but could have ground a bit off I suppose (only just touching - the problem is when you jack up the suspension the wheels clap hands - there would be enough clearance when the weight is on it).  You can always add spacers to reduce positive offset but you can't increase it is its too little (essentially positive offset brings the wheel further inside the wheel arch).  I did swap the studs for the longer stronger Freelander ones which are generally recommended (esp with spacers).  I originally bought some Dunlop D1 replicas but had problems with the wheel arches cutting the front tyre (they were slightly unusual 165 80 R13 tyres so slightly larger rolling radius than the standard 155 80 R13s and the offset was not quite enough at 16mm  - see comment above about reducing offset but not increasing).  Seems D1 replicas are ok with Mk3 GT6 but hit and miss (so to speak) with Mk2 (seems some cars catch and others not).  I went for 5 inch rims (as could fit the widely recommended 175 70 tyres in future and were cheaper then 5.5 inch).   I had some nearly new 155 80 R13 Dunlop street response tyres on wires for my Mk3 spitfire (since swapped to period alloys on the spit) so put them on the new GT6 minilites.  Haven't road tested in anger yet but I'll post if any problems now.  Doubt it but its hard to tell until you're working the suspension fully.

The usual thing when you go from standard, all sorts of things happen and it can be a bit of a lottery if it works or not without some other cost/ action being required to remedy it.  Having tinkered with TR4, a Mk3 spitfire and now a Mk2 GT6 you'd think I'd learn!  Unfortunately there are a lot of specialists happy to sell you shiny add ons but they never tell you the downsides.  That's pretty expensive when you are dealing with a TR4!   Not so bad with a spitfire. Thankfully, I generally don't pay for the labour for fettling - just my own time but I dread to think what it costs if someone has to make it work/fit and charge the time...

Regards

Bob