Chatting to MikeLMR it seems that early Mazdas have an odd PCD. Which makes getting suitably cool wheels a problem.
A quick trip over to the land of the rising sun\'s ebay equivilent : http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp
has produced more than a handful of wheels, here are a few :
http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h28043561
http://page13.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r13136176
http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h28018007
Getting your hands on them is slightly more complex. A couple of people on the Retro Rides board have used a company called Rinkya : http://www.rinkya.com/ : to buy things from Japan, including cars!
The Japanese have a culture of honesty so your gonna get what is being displayed and what has been described, as long as you can decifer the rather interesting English that the translating tools throw out.
Rinkya has links to Japanese to English translating websites (just click on which category of yahoo auctions you want to browse from the Rinkya site), or you can use Google\'s translation tools :
http://www.google.co.uk/language_tools?hl=en
Hope thats of some help :) Now can someone tell me why I can edit my signature so that I can say the RR forum is working again now :(
-David
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hey thanks for that Hotwire:)
i need a bunch of these weird pcd wheels. wasn\'t sure where to look.
Hotwire.....you are a complete legend!
Thats amazing.....yahoo japan avaiable to the masses!
Cheers,
Dan!!
some very cheap Fd\'s on their!!!!
Wish i had the money to runn a trackday one!:(
Scott
QuoteOriginally posted by Dan Norton
Hotwire.....you are a complete legend!
Only in my own head :D
keep us posted everyone that gets stuff from .jp ,.. tell us how it works out :D
Getting wheels from Japan seems a little extreme. Surely there are wheel manufactures in the UK that can redrill some rims to suit. 4x110 is also very close to the old 4x118 Escort pattern and I know people who have had these modified to fit.
I\'d personally get some Simmons from Aussie (If you cant get them here) - I\'m sure Flectron will agree they make the best wheels for early RX\'s. :)