That's right, my Contours were 4x108. Having a hard time keeping all my wheel specs straight.
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Nov. 22, 2010 3:29 p.m. chknhwk Reader
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Nov. 22, 2010 3:29 p.m. chknhwk Reader
That's right, my Contours were 4x108. Having a hard time keeping all my wheel specs straight.
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Nov. 23, 2010 4:13 p.m. CanadianTercel New Reader
Still no luck, but i did email SFI to see if they could dig up archives on them!
They are for sale btw people..
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Nov. 23, 2010 4:17 p.m. JFX001 SuperDork
I got nothing.
I have failed.
Closest that I could come up with were maybe some Epsilon copies....mainly due to the rivets at the top part of the "x" and the 1 center cap lock.
They look good though.
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Nov. 23, 2010 6:06 p.m. CanadianTercel New Reader
So SFI got back to me and apparently they were built by "empco industries"/"ensure wheels"
Hmmm...
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Nov. 23, 2010 6:27 p.m. Junkyard_Dog Dork
Do you have a date/era to go by? If you do try finding some car magazines from that period and looking for pictures in ads.
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Nov. 23, 2010 6:39 p.m. 93gsxturbo Reader
I had a set of wheels like that on my old Eclipse. No identifying marks whatsoever. We determined they were "MaxLoads"
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Nov. 23, 2010 6:41 p.m. RexSeven Dork
I found some Empco center caps on eBay:
http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=empco+wheels&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=
I also saw a for-sale thread on another forum for some Empco-made Enkei 92 look-alikes. It looks like making replicas of old-school JDM wheels was their specialty.
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Nov. 23, 2010 6:51 p.m. JFX001 SuperDork
Empco Industries Inc. became Falken Tire Corporation in 1991.
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Nov. 23, 2010 8:05 p.m. CanadianTercel New Reader
The SFI certification for these wheels was registered in July 1985.
Now to dig up my old road and tracks, etc!!
Thanks for the support guys!
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Nov. 24, 2010 6:04 a.m. 924guy Dork
those should also fit on a 4 lug porsche 924.... i looked but couldnt find any examples that matched exactly, but there were allot of aftermarket wheels offered in that pattern late 70[s, early 80's that had that bbs look to them.
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Nov. 25, 2010 4:31 p.m. CanadianTercel New Reader
Yeah I thought so!
You guys have any idea where I should advertise these? I feel i'm going to have a tough time selling them.
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Nov. 25, 2010 4:41 p.m. procainestart Dork
CanadianTercel wrote:
Yeah I thought so!
You guys have any idea where I should advertise these? I feel i'm going to have a tough time selling them.
Maybe advertise on focaljet.com (Ford Focus) and old-school Audi sites (does vwvortex.com have an Audi section??). Maybe specialstage.com?? Not sure how many Focuses are rallied, though, or even if a 14-inch rim would be appealing...
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Nov. 25, 2010 10:51 p.m. gamby SuperDork
procainestart wrote:
CanadianTercel wrote:
Yeah I thought so!
You guys have any idea where I should advertise these? I feel i'm going to have a tough time selling them.
Maybe advertise on focaljet.com (Ford Focus) and old-school Audi sites (does vwvortex.com have an Audi section??). Maybe specialstage.com?? Not sure how many Focuses are rallied, though, or even if a 14-inch rim would be appealing...
They'd be appealing to someone who'd want to widen them 2" and run 165mm wide tires on them.
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Nov. 25, 2010 11:40 p.m. CanadianTercel New Reader
Already have them on the VW forums, i will try focaljet.com, a 14" would fit, and then they could put siqqqq ass spacers on the car too.
Too bad they're one piece. It sucks because after all this hassle a bunch of wicked sets of wheels popped up locally, 15" revolution 5 spokes for example, for 300$..
f' me.
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Nov. 26, 2010 3:31 p.m. BowtieBandit New Reader
They will also fit a Merkur XR4Ti. A buddy of mine wants some gold wheels, bit I don't think he wants 14s.
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Nov. 26, 2010 4:10 p.m. CanadianTercel New Reader
Yeah these are a useless size.
Hyundai pony would work.
