Will Tuscan 18" spiders fit my Griff?

[benstartup]

I've been searching but can't find anything definitive - I'm sure I saw a pic of one at a dealers with these but can't remember where.

Has anyone tried this/know anyone who has tried this?

Does it adversely affect the handling etc?

Cheers
Ben

[richb]

Ben, any wheel should fit any car provided you get the correct stud pattern, PCD and off-set. One things for sure though, they won't fit as supplied to TVR because the Tuscan/cerbera uses a 5 stud fixing and the Griffith has 4. I have no idea who makes these wheels so I guess you need to research that first, perhaps a call to TVR to ask the manufactuer. I expect they may not tell you though if they are supplied as a TVR design. Regards handling etc. there is tons of stuff on here about wheels - try the search facility. Basically some will say they trash the handling others reckon they are fine. There are few of us with larger wheels on our Griffiths, personally I have found no handling/suspension issues and they do allow bigger brakes Cheers Rich...

[IPAddis]

I read somewhere (maybe on Pistonheads) that TVR have told the Spider wheels suppliers that if they see them on any other car, the contract is cancelled.

Try www.performancealloys.com as they seem to think that they can get BBS RKs to fit!

[marco]

Hi Ben

Was the car a dark grey/green J plate 4.3 with dark grey Tuscan spider alloys?

If so then it belongs to Neil Anderson at TVR and was featured in the Griff 500 review in Evo magazine last year. There was some discussion about this somewhere and the consensus was yes the Tuscan wheels can be fitted BUT all the hubs/uprights/etc would need to be sourced from a Tuscan or similar and machined to fit becasue of the 5 stud pattern and different offsets. Conclusion was that financially it was a no brainer!

Maybe some similar custom aftermarket ones could do the job but TVR's own are too much trouble.

Hope this helps


Marco

[benstartup]

Thanks for the replies guys

The Spider alloys seem like a v expensive option so I guess I'll have a re-think!

Richb - what have you gone for on yours? Do you have any pics of Griffs with 17s?

[bennno]

only thing i have seen is a few griffs on 17/18" Cerby 4.5 style motorsport wheels (ie the standard 4.5 wheel before the spider came along)

contact apache for details as he has a set on his car and a picture in the archives, it looks the business

Bennno

[richb]

quote:
Richb - what have you gone for on yours? Do you have any pics of Griffs with 17s?

Click my profile, pic should be on there?

[apache]

are you sure Neil's car has spiders? I thought they were Cerbie RL 7's like mine and Richb's

[bennno]

i saw the pic in evo and it had a set of 16" spiders on his factory hack, that said it possibly had a bit of tamora running gear also??

Bennno

[apache]

yeah that's where I saw it, got to be one of the best looking Griffs around

[richb]

Ben, Pete - which issue of EVO? Just had a skim through my back copies and couldn't see it. Incidentally, I saw Neill's car at Silverstone back in '96 when he the had 16" 4.2 Cerbera wheels on it - spoke to Neill a while later and he said it was used as a test bed for the Cerbera suspension, that's why it has 5 stud hubs. Rich...

[bennno]

the one which had the run out griff in it, his 4.3 is pictured in the factory compound with said wheels!

Bennno

[richb]

Ben, how long ago was this issue? I think I only have about a years back copies stashed on the floor! Rich...

[IPAddis]

Issue 30, April 2001.

[benstartup]

Apache - those RLs look great - I'll bear it in mind

Cheers
Ben



>> Edited by benstartup on Monday 11th March 13:51