What would make for a good set of sleeper beater wheels?  I'm thinking black oxide stamped steel OEM wheels with the right spacing and width, but are they strong enough for racing?  

steelies are pretty strong. what kind of car? what kind of racing?

ever heard of splitting steelies?  

Steelies sound good.  I wonder if I can find some big, wide wheels from a truck that'll do the job.  

a lot of trucks have different bolt patterns...so be careful when looking.  I've got some olds SS2 rallys on my Delta 88...but without the trim rings.  It looks pretty mean.  

Does Weld make a flat black wheel?  Their draglites would look frigging mean as a fake OEM.

 

ask 'em...

Weld Racing Wheels
6600 Stadium Drive
Kansas City, MO 64129

Customer Service/Sales:
800-669-9353
Email: sales@weldracing.com  

i had cragar soft spoke 8's on my autocross truck. durable, and availible in all sorts of sizes. steel, and look a lot like the drag lites. may be what youre looking for.


michael  

Those are sweet.  

steelies are cheap and should be plenty strong. i bought 2 from a junkyard 65 Galaxie and had them widened to a 15x10 for i think $50 each. i had a total of $125 in a pair of wheels that looked just mean. i threw some Nascar circle track slicks on there for a few months. the Galaxie is a street car and i suprisingly enough i never got pulled over even though the slicks and noise were attention getters. heres a pic-

EDIT- dammit! i cant find a good shot of the wheels themselves. oh well, heres one when the car had the slicks and rims on



and a bad profile pic that might help get the idea across -






IF you want a larger size, i had some 17s off of a Chrysler 300 widened as well. they are a 17 inch wheel, i got a set of tires and wheels for $100, sold the tires alone for $100 then had the rear wheels widened for $150 for the pair to a 9 inch width. heres a shot of the wheels themselves-