Old school toyota wheel nuts in aluminium

[toyota81]

Toyota AE86's, old Celica's and Supra's have unique type wheel nuts. Anyone know where I'd get aluminium set?

Pic Of Steel 1s Below

http://www.google.ie/imgres?q=toyota...52&tx=87&ty=90

[ta22fan]

Give these guys a try

http://www.wheelsaustralia.com.au/

[The Witzl]

They are called shank nuts.
Why would you want them in aluminium???? Save 100g of weight?

You can get normal ones from nice products.

[JadeEstevez]

I run them on my RA40, They came off the Soarer the wheels are off of. Go to a wrecking yard and pocket some

[toyota81]

I run them on my RA40, They came off the Soarer the wheels are off of. Go to a wrecking yard and pocket some

Are they aluminium 1s Marcus?

[JadeEstevez]

Steel. I didn't think you could get aluminium ones. Why do they have to be aluminium?

[toyota81]

It's a rally car so I want everything as light as possible!

[HAVABEER]

but wouldn't the strength of the nuts be out weighed by the 100gram saving of weight... just the amount of stress put on wheel nut threads especially with rallying you'd probably want them as strong as possible to avoid them sheering off under load (aka round a corner at 50kph). you'd also need to take care with the torquing of the nuts, you'd want to stay away from rattle guns that'll just rip the thread right out of them.

or just take a large poo in the morning and you might save that much.


depending how serious you want to go. get 2x normal wheel studs/bolts and an aluminum wheel nut and a steel wheel nut. pack out the stud enough so the nut won't bottom out. and using a large torque wrench, load up up the wheel nut till they or the bolt sheer. if the aluminum nut sheers before the bolt i'd be very hesitant about using them.

['ol_skool_'75]

You can buy new steel ones from Sprint Auto Parts here in SA easily. I'm sure Repco and the likes will stock them. Trying to save weight on wheel nuts seems a bit over the top, especially on a RA40

[lexsmaz]

No offence meant but as has been said why bother & if you are only rallying a RA40 ? you are not in the big league & an extra 10kg would proboably not make much difference let alone 100gr ...

Porsche wheel nuts are an alloy type nut & are extremely light but they are also a 14mm diamemter thread as opposed to 12mm etc on Toyota's & i'm sure the Porsche ones are not just aluminium either ..

[toyota81]

No offence meant but as has been said why bother & if you are only rallying a RA40 ? you are not in the big league & an extra 10kg would proboably not make much difference let alone 100gr ...

Porsche wheel nuts are an alloy type nut & are extremely light but they are also a 14mm diamemter thread as opposed to 12mm etc on Toyota's & i'm sure the Porsche ones are not just aluminium either ..

Only rallyin an RA40, some wouldn't like to hear that being said! I'm rallying RWD Starlet, don't know where RA40 came from! Anyway, it seems these wheel nuts are not available in ali, thanks for help every1

[JadeEstevez]

I think they got confused with my car maybe??

Sorry mate, But it's not worth the hassle of finding them and fixing anything that break's when, and if, they let go... Have you done the old 'Remove the windscreen and use plexiglass' trick? That'll save a fair bit of weight. How extreme have you gone so far with the weight reduction?

Also RWD starlet? Fucking sick! Got any pictures or a build thread?

[thechuckster]

I did get a set of wheel nuts from some random toyota 4WD (landcruiser i think) at the wreckers - unlike the shiny ones found on Supra/Celica alloy rims, these were plain steel with an open front (top of wheel stud visible) but had the flat face that the wheel nuts used to clamp onto toyota alloy rims.

I have seen some lightweight titanium/alloy bolts being used on track cars?

Have you tried the escort rallying fraternity for UK-sourced lightweight wheel nuts (with your location = Tipperary, am assuming you are in Ireland?)

[oldcorollas]

titanium is somewhat lighter than steel, and a lot stronger than aluminium. more expensive as well, but cheaper than binning the car

if saving weight, rather than having closed end stylish ones, you have the minimum safe length you can get away with, and trim the stud down also?



i think the reason you don7t see the shank type in aluminium is becaus ethey would break.

these ones (aluminium version of the ones above) are abotu 21grams... no lighter than the short ones on the right
http://www.otomoto.com.au/p/4116524/...itch-x20-.html

[toyota81]

Ok, thanks guys. Yeah, Ireland. Escort 1s don't have the shank thechuckster :-(