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Old 04-22-2020, 11:19 PM   #35 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Originally Posted by ASV View Post
it seems to me like the smooth full cover is still the best
for one simple reason.

It's something anyone can do to almost any wheel
where as the thick outer rim is not a rim I have ever seen
even once.
Totally agree about relative difficulty. But the thick outter rim design could be mimicked for experimentation by modifying cheap plastic rim caps from a big box store.

Or use ones like this... if you blanked the outter portions of the rim and left the openings nearer the hum open, then you would have something to play with.

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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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