Alloy wheels-Minilite or alternatives

[pharriso]

Tried both...

[draenog]

https://mk1-performance-conversions.co.uk/

"The MK1 Performance Conversions web site is now closed."

[Graham B]

But it was there yesterday!!!!!!!
Gone now!!!

[alanr]

I post it again...for the second time! ...and Tony posted it originally.
Click on this link:-
https://mk1-performance-conversions.co.uk/minilite.htm

The above link works fine for me.

Alan

[draenog]

See my earlier post. The web site is closed. What you are seeing is a cached page.

[draenog]

Capture of the winding down announcement. Seems it didn't take long after this to complete closure!

https://web.archive.org/web/20240813193516/https://mk1-performance-conversions.co.uk/mk1_index.htm

Announcement.

When I started the MK1 Performance Conversions site back in 1997, there was practically no information about early Mini’s available anywhere on the internet & any archives that people held were invariably private & inaccessible to most fans. Back then, I felt that the MK1 Site & in later times the forum played a huge part in the popularisation of these early cars. They have certainly become more & more popular, sought after & sadly more valuable over the last 25 years or so. We are now inundated with Facebook Groups, Web sites & all sorts of other Internet & social media platforms & resources dedicated to the subject. I no longer feel that this site has much of a role to play.

I have therefore decided that over the next months I am going to begin to reduce the size & scope of the MK1 Performance Conversions web site, with the ultimate aim of winding it up sometime in the future. I will be leaving the most popular sections untouched in the meantime, but unless I come across anything of spectacular interest, I will not be adding new material.

I would be lying if I said that this decision has been an easy one, but I feel that the time is probably coming when the resource that I have offered here is no longer relevant, and plodding on regardless seems futile to say the least.

Thank you, Mark F

(30.07.2024)

[tonyabacus]

Further investigation of the website brought up a note from the originator that he is handing the site over to someone else, which may answer why it is now closed. However it may take a while to do the handover, so for those interested in some of the other informative information on the site keep a check for the new site.

I did manage to get a copy of the Tech Del info before it closed which I will attempt to upload here, however we are talking copies of copies so some detail is blurred, especially the data referring to inset/offset, but the increments down the left hand side are in 1/8th of an inch. I remember this as the brochure handed out by Tech Del when I purchased wheels from them in the 1960's, so the files are quite large. Hope this will be useful to Alan and others
Tony

[alanr]

Thanks Tony,

All useful stuff to keep on file.

Alan.

[alanr]

Ok..To try and get this thread back to where it started with some basics and forget offset/backspace for the moment...

Is there anyone on here who has purchased new wheels, of whatever make, and from wherever, recently for a +2 (+2 only please) and what size wheel, 13 or 14 inch?.......what width 5.5J or 6J?.....and what size tyres are you using?....also is this on a standard or 2.25inch rear spring setup?

Thanks,

Alan.