need wheels/tires, ...autocrossing Options

[Schnell944]

hey all. I'm getting my car ready for the autocross season and am new to the 914 scene. i was wondering what you guys consider from experience to be a good, relatively low budget, autocross wheel/tire setup. im prob. looking to buy used, and yes, ill be looking at the classifides here....i just would like some background info to help me with the choice....and if anyone knows of a set available please let me know! thanks! btw, this is a '72 914 1.7L w/o any mods.

Ryan Z

[kdfoust]

I'd stay with OE type wheels unless you want to spend in excess of ~$200 a pop. The only downside of OE wheels is that they're gonna be used and I've found through experience that dealing with used wheel sellers can be exasperating as hell. The fitments are also a no-brainer by staying OE.

Running OE wheels, here's the choices:
Steel: boring, heavy, super cheap ($whocares/each)
Pedrini: not all that common, but, cheap ($60/each)
Mahle: still not all that common still cheap ($60-75/each)
Fuchs: can't swing a cat with hitting a p-car with Fuchs. Light, not too expensive ($100/ea with imperfect finish, but not banged up), but higher than Pedrinis and Mahles.

I've picked up a set of each. They are all on my todo list to refinish this year. FYI, I'm running 205/50 on my '72 stock. The front gets a light rub at full lock on the inside fender wells (no problem to me).

Have fun,
Kevin