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chknhwk
chknhwk Reader
11/22/10 3:29 p.m.

That's right, my Contours were 4x108. Having a hard time keeping all my wheel specs straight.

chknhwk
chknhwk Reader
11/22/10 3:29 p.m.

That's right, my Contours were 4x108. Having a hard time keeping all my wheel specs straight.

CanadianTercel
CanadianTercel New Reader
11/23/10 4:13 p.m.

Still no luck, but i did email SFI to see if they could dig up archives on them!

They are for sale btw people..

JFX001
JFX001 SuperDork
11/23/10 4:17 p.m.

I got nothing. I have failed.

Closest that I could come up with were maybe some Epsilon copies....mainly due to the rivets at the top part of the "x" and the 1 center cap lock.

They look good though.

CanadianTercel
CanadianTercel New Reader
11/23/10 6:06 p.m.

So SFI got back to me and apparently they were built by "empco industries"/"ensure wheels"

Hmmm...

Junkyard_Dog
Junkyard_Dog Dork
11/23/10 6:27 p.m.

Do you have a date/era to go by? If you do try finding some car magazines from that period and looking for pictures in ads.

93gsxturbo
93gsxturbo Reader
11/23/10 6:39 p.m.

I had a set of wheels like that on my old Eclipse. No identifying marks whatsoever. We determined they were "MaxLoads"

RexSeven
RexSeven Dork
11/23/10 6:41 p.m.

I found some Empco center caps on eBay:

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=empco+wheels&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=

I also saw a for-sale thread on another forum for some Empco-made Enkei 92 look-alikes. It looks like making replicas of old-school JDM wheels was their specialty.

JFX001
JFX001 SuperDork
11/23/10 6:51 p.m.

Empco Industries Inc. became Falken Tire Corporation in 1991.

CanadianTercel
CanadianTercel New Reader
11/23/10 8:05 p.m.

The SFI certification for these wheels was registered in July 1985.

Now to dig up my old road and tracks, etc!!

Thanks for the support guys!

924guy
924guy Dork
11/24/10 6:04 a.m.

those should also fit on a 4 lug porsche 924.... i looked but couldnt find any examples that matched exactly, but there were allot of aftermarket wheels offered in that pattern late 70[s, early 80's that had that bbs look to them.

CanadianTercel
CanadianTercel New Reader
11/25/10 4:31 p.m.

Yeah I thought so!

You guys have any idea where I should advertise these? I feel i'm going to have a tough time selling them.

procainestart
procainestart Dork
11/25/10 4:41 p.m.
CanadianTercel wrote: Yeah I thought so! You guys have any idea where I should advertise these? I feel i'm going to have a tough time selling them.

Maybe advertise on focaljet.com (Ford Focus) and old-school Audi sites (does vwvortex.com have an Audi section??). Maybe specialstage.com?? Not sure how many Focuses are rallied, though, or even if a 14-inch rim would be appealing...

gamby
gamby SuperDork
11/25/10 10:51 p.m.
procainestart wrote:
CanadianTercel wrote: Yeah I thought so! You guys have any idea where I should advertise these? I feel i'm going to have a tough time selling them.
Maybe advertise on focaljet.com (Ford Focus) and old-school Audi sites (does vwvortex.com have an Audi section??). Maybe specialstage.com?? Not sure how many Focuses are rallied, though, or even if a 14-inch rim would be appealing...

They'd be appealing to someone who'd want to widen them 2" and run 165mm wide tires on them.

CanadianTercel
CanadianTercel New Reader
11/25/10 11:40 p.m.

Already have them on the VW forums, i will try focaljet.com, a 14" would fit, and then they could put siqqqq ass spacers on the car too.

Too bad they're one piece. It sucks because after all this hassle a bunch of wicked sets of wheels popped up locally, 15" revolution 5 spokes for example, for 300$..

f' me.

BowtieBandit
BowtieBandit New Reader
11/26/10 3:31 p.m.

They will also fit a Merkur XR4Ti. A buddy of mine wants some gold wheels, bit I don't think he wants 14s.

CanadianTercel
CanadianTercel New Reader
11/26/10 4:10 p.m.

Yeah these are a useless size.

Hyundai pony would work.

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