Campy Clones

All the clones are not alike. This may help.
http://pantera.infopop.cc/eve/...250025783#1250025783

Having worked on various cars with Campi clones recently, I was very surprised how heavy many of them are.

Julian

If you want the cream of the crop,MHT sells the Foose Pantera design:

http://www.mhtwheels.com/foose-pantera-wg-283.htm

I sure do like my 10 year old Boyd Coddington Campy-clones

Love the Foose wheels, but their not really clones of the originals and WOW, are they expensive!!

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I sure do like my 10 year old Boyd Coddington Campy-clones

Ditto that. Mine are 15 years old. From Marino Perna at Pantera East, the second version that had the forged centers.

Be aware that THOSE (Pantera East) Coddington-produced clones kept the original orientation of the inner pentagram.

Meaning the pentagram points were clocked to the large single opening, not the two slots.

When another vendor approached Coddington to obtain wheels for sale through his operation, he learned Pantera East had exclusive use of that design.

What to do??!! Coddington re-clocked the pentagram so the points faced the small two slots. VOILA!! NOT THE SAME as the Pantera East version.

Capitalism at its best.

In addition to considering the pentagram orientation, you should take note of the size and depth of the lug nut recesses.

AND... the size of the pentagram. Some are WAY too large, IMHO.

There are also a LOT of differences in the depth, contour and edge radiuses of the various design elements in the various clone versions.

I do not have a clear ...current... view of what vendors are now offering.

Just wanted you to get some idea of things to watch out for in making your decision.

Larry

here is an original wheel

Here is a vendor's current offering.

Their website describes this wheel as -

"... a 2-piece, welded wheel that properly presents the original Campagnolo look and attitude."

Note the pentagram orientation.



REALLY?

Cheers

American Billet Wheels.

I had these made recently. 17x8 AND 18X11.5.

The American Billet Wheels are the Boyd Coddington wheels.

I have a pair of the American Republic. Order now if you want them for christmas, they are slow... Especially when they send you someone else's wheels and when you finally get the ones you ordered, the rims were bent and scratched by some one trying to fit their tires, badly. I then had to get my damaged wheels sent back to Republic who had to get a pair of wheel tubs made up again, cut the old tubs off the centers, re-weld and send them back out.

They do make the wheels to your backspacing. They also have the correct center "rotation / alignment".
http://www.americanrepublicwhe...2Dcoddington%2Dcampi

Like the picture that LF posted, their wheels do not have much depth in the recesses. I also had the wheel nut hole bored larger as only the "tuner" small lug socket would fit. The wheels are also not hub centric, which I did not like and had to get rings made up, they are an unusual size. The hub center cap is also not the same size as the DeTomaso badge that normally fits in the wheel center. I had to purchase a new pair of caps to hold the badge as the supplied cap is domed.

I purchased the center caps from Pantera Perfomance. I didn't have any issue with the way the center caps fit on these wheels.

The American Billet look nice. Are the American Billet wheels hub centric? What is the model and cost?

Not sure about the American Republic wheels after reading your experience.

Thanks.

I am not sure what hub centric means, but I did not have to use any adapter to put them on. They fit as OEM. I have only tried one wheel on the rear of the car as it is going to have some work done in the near future. I had contacted Dave Rittenhouse. Sent him a picture from an advertisement in POCA of the Boyd Coddington wheels that were made back in the mid 2000's. He found the old program and made them for me. We did a test fit on the back spacing before he finish welded them.

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hub centric

Google is your friend. http://www.tsw.com/explore/hub-centric-wheels.php
http://tires.about.com/od/unde...g-centric-wheels.htm

You will find the center hole of your wheel is larger than the axle hub, my wheels were that I got from David Rittenhouse in 2014. Not sure why they had a problem finding the program, they are listed on their website, unless your wheels are different or David is working at a different company. http://www.americanrepublicwhe...2Dcoddington%2Dcampi

[quote]I purchased the center caps from Pantera Perfomance. I didn't have any issue with the way the center caps fit on these wheels.[quote]
My wheels came with the dome center caps like in the above link. As the wheel center hole was larger than the stock wheel, the stock DeTomaso badge would just fall in. New blank center caps are available on eBay or Pantera Performance.

All I can say is the program that Dave used was from the when Boyd was making these wheels in the 2000's. I don't know if they changed or modified that program.

The center cap on that wheel came from my 15x10" Campagnolo.