aluminum center caps

[bgd73]

I decided to try this..thinking back to a dodge omni of the 80s. the omni refused to ride smooth without the nubs of axles covered... The sube has four dangling, and it shakes randomly, drivin me nuts. So, I spent too much for a hole-saw bit at 3inch, and hacked up some high grade aluminum, and made a self centering steel backing.
By high grade, I mean the drill gun was smoking by the timje I worked it thorugh each piece...

I then proceeded to fly down the highway...sure enough, hunch proved good. Smooth...and that equals fuel.
I cannot do the disc stuff I have seen here, but this highly heatsinkable self center is over 4 inches...similar purpose and result I presume.

[Frank Lee]

Usually I can more or less figure it out

but not this time

[cfg83]

Frank -

Click the picture and you can see the little center cap. The beauty of it is that it can be expanded to a center mount for a partial/full cover.

CarloSW2

[Domman56]

why not just get the tires balanced? it sounds like speed balancing is the only thing you needed

[RobertSmalls]

Now you just need 16 more, to cover the lug nuts, plus 32 aluminium plates to cover the brake cooling ducts.

[Wonderboy]

+2 to shield my eyes when he's done

[bgd73]

the car is doing great thanks. wheels are balanced, so is the T-rated tread grinding at the road like a rally car. If the treads for studs on hubs were exposed, I'd cover the lugs too..but they are not, they are anclosed tall lug nuts, like a tractor trailer.

a 260+ mile journey last night left no shakes,wiggle wobbles, thumps bumps or noises....and went through some hefty thermal drops from biddeford maine to bangor. I could feel the chill dropping heat with a cool breeze in the cabin. We are going for a crazy 8F degree low this late march...from 50F degree days, and even a record 64F not long ago...this used to be a trigger. the caps are doing miracles. Alot more than I did not expect...

fuel is back to 23-27mpg for the trip.. but **mph for 100 miles will do that.

At a 1 barrel conservative ride it is quite normal at 75MPH to go back to mid 30s. I got anxious , late night, and really respecting a 23 year old car going smooth..I cannot get gas mileage correct with a bouncy guage and carb, I'll leave it in the log at 27mpg.

And fabricating things is what I do. the car was a junk pile. Challenge your own integrity before insulting mine.

[Wonderboy]

Challenge your own integrity before insulting mine.

Whoa, sorry you feel that way man - not what I was trying to do at all. I was talking about what it would look like if you took RobertSmalls' pleasantly sarcastic advice. I think what he's trying to say is that if you've got the time to fabricate something for your hubcap (which is obviously helping your FE) why not go that extra inch and put some smooth wheel covers on, which will also help your FE?