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looking for erco wheels
sean68 - July 25th, 2005 at 09:24 PM

Does anyone know where the best place to buy erco wheels is?
also what kind of price are they?

vwtyp2 - July 25th, 2005 at 09:52 PM

http://www.wolfsburgperformance.com/pages/products.htm 

vw54 - July 26th, 2005 at 07:05 AM

Is this them ???

vwtyp2 - July 26th, 2005 at 08:54 AM

don't they look beautiful.
they'd be my next choice if I didn't get the Radar's.
nothing says drag race more than Erco's

sean68 - July 26th, 2005 at 05:18 PM

same as these one
with the offset/inward dish on the frontnn[ Edited on 26-7-2005 by sean68 ]

davidoconnor - July 26th, 2005 at 09:18 PM

Sean, I bought mine direct from the source. Talk to Eric Ballard at ERCO in Riverside California his number is (909) 689 4430 plus all those overseas prefixes to call L.A. from Australia.

They're available in all sorts of offsets but you may be limited by what he has in stock or by how long you're willing to wait. They're also available in two material thicknesses. The lightest or true Drag wheel uses .125" aluminium and he'll tell you they're striclty not for street use. The other uses .190 T6 aluminium.

I paid around $US130 per rim plus postage and duties and a little extra for the wheel washers (don't forget those).

You won't believe the weight saving with these beatuies and they look good to boot. Hope this helps.

vwtyp2 - July 27th, 2005 at 10:41 AM

post a pic Dave.

:)

sean68 - July 27th, 2005 at 08:17 PM

thanks david
just the info i was looking for
will try ringing Eric
did you get same style front rims as the ones in the pic i posted
if so what offset are they

cheers
sean

Adolph - July 29th, 2005 at 08:56 PM

Looks very good!!:thumb
And what did they cost?

Thank you Hermann

davidoconnor - July 30th, 2005 at 06:07 PM

Sean,

The fronts on my car are 4.125" with an inside half of 2.5" and an outside half of 1.625". If you're running these wheels on a disk brake front end don't forget you'll have to run a spacer to clear the caliper and this may effect you're offset calculations.

The front ERCO's on Richard Dickson's silver car pictured above are 3.5" with 0" on the outside half and a full 3.5" on the inside half. Who needs a narrowed beam when you can run these babies!!

What car are these going on Sean?nn[ Edited on 30/7/2005 by davidoconnor ]

davidoconnor - July 30th, 2005 at 06:30 PM

Sean,

I'll try to attach a picture of my car. Hope this worked?!nn[ Edited on 30/7/2005 by davidoconnor ]nn[ Edited on 30/7/2005 by davidoconnor ]

HGFS - July 31st, 2005 at 12:29 AM

Hi David,
Looks like you're probably having the same problems with pics that I did. You need to resize pics so they are under 50K file size or they wont post.
Haven't seen your car much with the erco's on it, I think every time I see it, its wearing the Fuchs
Cheers
Greg

sean68 - August 2nd, 2005 at 09:31 PM

Hey David
Thanks for the info again
They're going on a 62 that i'm getting
do you know if the front ones on Richard Dickson's car will work with the wide 5 disc brakes?
Are your rears 5 6 or 7 inch
Pic of your car would be great

cheers
Sean

vwtyp2 - August 3rd, 2005 at 11:20 AM

Here's the pic of DO'C's car with the Erco's.

sean68 - August 3rd, 2005 at 08:26 PM

nice looking bug :tu:
looks like a 68/69..am i right?
don't see to many nice ones....everyone wants the earlier ones