Reply to "GT5 Wheels on standard hubs/studs"

I believe there may be several types of GT-5 wheels out there as far as the bolt holes in the wheel. Some have straight holes and some may have tapered seats? I have been running a set of 10's and 13's Campys using stock wheel studs and aftermarket straight shoulder metric mag wheel lug nuts. The wheels I had (I think) came from the Kleinpeter racing stable and had straight 0.750" dia. holes in them. I could not find anybody that supplied the straight shouldered lug nots to match the stock Pantera threads to a 0.750 hole diameter. Its been a while since I did this, so I do not remeber all the specific details, but I believe these lug nuts had a diameter of 0.655" if I remember correctly. I sleeved the lug nuts with .049 wall x .750 dia. stainless steel tubing insets. You have to ream out the seam on the ID of the tubing insets or once you press the sleeves on the lug nuts, the diameter maybe a thousand or two larger than the hole diameters in the wheels which would make for a tight fit of the square shoulded "modified" wheel nut into the wheel lug nut hole. Even with lug nut washers, the thread engagement was more than with the stock wheel, wheel nut setup, so no problem with stock stud length with this arrangement.