The other issue I might mention. I purchased steel wheels from Wheelsmith's and told them they were for LSR. They were welded 360 degrees as needed, but the taper for the lugnuts on the wheels was 60 degrees. Most nuts with 1" hex are 90 degrees, so you may have to change that taper.
John
We spoke with wheelsmith last night and they mentioned the lug seat angle and that it could be whatever we needed it to be.
What type of wheel did you guys get from wheelsmith? The smoothie or the solid plate center?
The diameter of the hub or in our case the brake rotor hat, where the back of the wheel mates up, according to them is supposed to be 7.5" minimum. When we ordered these wheels, we made it clear what we were doing with them, land speed racing. Not once did they mention that their wheels require a 7.5" hub. Nowhere on their website mentions it either. When we contacted him after the incident and described what happened, he said he knew right away what was wrong and that he has had plenty of people have the same issue.
Now don't you think if this was a known issue, it is something that they as the wheel builder should make known to their customers?
His defense was that they make stock car wheels and stock cars all use a big hub like that and he sold us stock car wheels.
Our defense is that we told him what we were doing, never said we were running stock car hubs but he sold us wheels that have certain requirements as far as hub size goes and never said a word about it even though he knew it could be a problem and has had alot of customers have the same issue.