Mini wheels and brakes???

[HarryWeekes]

will 10x6 minilites work well with 7.5 cooper s brakes on my 1982 mini city 1000 if coverted to front discs from drums???

also will group 2 race arches be too big? i want the wheels and tyres to be as wide as possible would wheel spacers be an option?

[DanGT]

You can get hole brake kits to run discs with 10" wheels. That is the esy way to go.

I would be carfull not to go to wide, you are just putting a strine on the wheel bearing and messing up the car setup. (spacers I think are a bad thing on minis)

Its hard to say about the arches as it depends how made them (not as standerd as you think) and the off set on the wheels you have.

[Cooperman]

s I guess you are using the car on the raod, the tyres will be 165/70x10. The best wheel width for these is a 5" wide and a Minilite that width will sit well under the ST Group 2 arches. What you don't want to do with a Cooper 'S' set-up is use spacers. They screw up the suspension geometry and can be unsafe. As an absolute max. width you can go to 6" wheel width, but whichever width you decide on you need the wheels to be for the Cooper 'S' which already has the wider hub-flanges on the front and the wide brake drums on the rear. So don't forget to use the wider rear drums as fitted to the Cooper 'S' and the later cars with 8.4" discs.
If this wqas a competition car for track use, a wider wheel is possible because you would be using a racing tyre with a sticky rubber and that's why the very wide arches are available for race use. No good for the road though.

[HarryWeekes]

thanks for the help what wheels are better handeling 10x6 or 13x7 on an 1982 mini city 1000?

[guru_1071]

HarryWeekes said:

thanks for the help what wheels are better handeling 10x6 or 13x7 on an 1982 mini city 1000?

10x6 - 13" wheels ruin the handeling of a mini - unless you spend lots of money to correct the short commings of such a heavy wheel

[HarryWeekes]

How does 10x6 minilites sound with monye carlo arches?

[Cooperman]

Did you mean road-holding or handling in your earlier post. They are not the same thing at all.Road-holding is the measurement of the maximum G-force you can generate through a corner and handling is the way the car responds to acceleration, braking and steering input.
As 'guru1071' says, the 10" wheel is the best on any Mini and the original ST group 2 arches are simply the best extension ever as they carry the chrome trim over thye wheel arches.
Don't make the mistake of fitting wheels which are too wide for the tyres. The absolute max legal and safe width for a 165/70x10 tyre is 6", with best overall results coming with a 4.5" to 5" rim width.