[urq] Re: [s-cars] TRX Wheel/tire

[Jim Haseltine]

Like this?
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jim_haseltine/quattro/pictures/rallynz.jpg

Metric sized rims ISTR.

Regards,

Jim Haseltine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "c cohen" <ccohen5 at compuserve.com>
To: "Ian Duff" <iduff at rcn.com>; <quattro-digest at audifans.com>; "'Audi S Car
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Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 4:53 PM
Subject: [urq] Re: [s-cars] TRX Wheel/tire


> I believe they did and as you say the wheels were hideous whereas these
are
> the classic 5 spokes on the museum's S1s.  Also these have an ET of about
13
> or 14 vs the Urq's requirment for >30.  Its possible that these wheels may
> have been used on the A series of Rally cars although I have never seen a
> picture of an A car with this wheel pattern.
>
> Colin
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ian Duff" <iduff at rcn.com>
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> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 8:39 AM
> Subject: RE: [s-cars] TRX Wheel/tire
>
>
>
> Didn't Treser put TRX wheels on those hideous abortions that started as
5Ks?
> Pushing the edges of the grey matter here...
> -Ian Duff.
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of c cohen
> Sent: Saturday, 20 December, 2003 6:33 PM
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> Subject: [s-cars] TRX Wheel/tire
>
>
> Folks:
> I bought some wheels earlier this year which with the help of the lists I
> have discovered are definitely metric or TRX sized.  They have the Audi 5
x
> 112 bolt pattern with the rounded bolt seat (not the cone) and have the 5
> spoke star pattern that was used on the competition SQ.  Diameter is 390
mm
> and offset seems to be about 15 or slightly more than the SQ which is 10
but
> much less than the Urq which tends to be in the 30s.
>
> Some have mentioned that Audis were fitted with TRX tires at some point
but
> I have not seen any printed reference to this. When and which cars?  I had
a
> non US M5 in the early 80s which had these Michelin exclusive tires but I
> never saw them offered on any of My Audis around this period.
>
> Michelin still make the tires which cost the same as SO3s landed in the US
> which I suppose is not all that bad as compared with say 60s size Ferrari
> GTO tires so I might get these wheels to fit with a 2 mm spacer up front.
> But these are not SQ wheels.  They are very light though.
>
> Colin
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