heres the link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Ford-TRX-Wheels-For-Mustang_W0QQitemZ120254882260QQcmdZViewItem
$250?!?!? That guy's on crack. TRX wheels are worth about 60 cents/pound at a s yard, and that's about it. They're a nice looking wheel, but tires are nearly impossible to find for them, and if you do find some you'll pay big bucks. Aside from s metal about the only way to make TRX wheels useful is to do this (http://"http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showthread.php?t=14296&highlight=trx+wheels") to them, which is beyond the skills (http://"http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showthread.php?t=14296&highlight=trx+wheels") of most of us.
Like I said before if they were 15" wheels I would sooooo be rocking the Cougar/T-bird style ones on my Bird. But yeah with the tires being $300+ each no f**king way :hick:
I got a set of the Tbird ones with used tires that are bald but not showing cords. You can pay me $0.60 a pound for them other wise they will end up at the s yard. lol
I bet it would cost more to ship them then they are worth as s :hick:
Fixed it for ya. ;)
I have a set in my basp00get. I don't know what I'm doing with them but I have 'em.
Meet me half way. I was thinking about going to the JC Whitney car show in LaSalle this Sunday.
yes the only reason i posted those was that red T-Bird with the 460 has them looking like chrome. what size tires do you have to buy for them???
The wheels on that red 460 'Bird have been heavily modified - in fact the TRX "wheels" have been cut down into hubcaps and attached to 17" chrome wheels.
The tire size for a TRX wheel is 220/55R390. The rim diameter is 390 mm, which works out to about 15.5"
I would but then I'd have four big paper weights for the garage :hick:
hows come i remember getting around the whole metric thing a long time ago on my 84.
I told the guy to force on a set of regular so called "normal" tires and he said, ok but i wont take responsiblity. I had to sign the work order that i agreed to it.
for some odd reason i remember this like it was yesterday but for the life of me i cant remember what size he put on.
I've just done the metric conversion. 390 mm is actually 15.35 inches. If the tire doesn't have a steel bead (fiberglass, instead) you
might be able to force a 15" tire on, similar to how you can fit a 16" tire onto a 16.5" rim, but you're doing so at your own risk, as it puts the bead under tremendous stretching force that could blow at any moment. The bead design of the TRX rim was considerably different than a standard rim, too. I'm really surprised you could find somebody to do it for you, as that "
any moment" is usually during the installation and under extremely high air pressure (35 PSI isn't going to seat those beads), and people have been seriously injured when doing so...
As an aside, had one of those tires blown out and caused an accident, your tire guy would have still been on the hook. Just because he had you sign something does not make it OK to send a vehicle out on the road that he knows is unsafe (and he knew it was unsafe if he had you sign the paper stating so).
By the way, TRX wasn't only a Ford/Michelin blunder. Many European car companies, including BMW and Jaguar, and even some puppiesanese companies (Datsun) got into it as well. Just google "TRX wheels" and you'll see plenty of threads from people with late 70's BMW's asking how to make tires fit them...
True, but Ford was the biggest purveyor of whoring out the concept to North American vehicles. You'd expect something like that from Chrysler or even GM.
On the bright side, at least rims are easy to change. We could be stuck with early diesels like GM did... ;)
Ford can't even make parts that interchange between Ford vehicles correctly. You're surprised that they tried to do tires that wouldn't interchange with other rims? And even then, they didn't learn - look at the 97-0something F-150's with the hub-centric rims and collared lug nuts that they ended up having problems with. I guess the old tapered-seat 5-on-5.5" lugs used since forever were too simple for 'em...
I could swear I remember GM having a 430mm rim on the firebirds.
There was a 415mm TRX wheel, but I don't think GM ever used it. I think it was more of a Ferrari or Lamborghini thing. There was also a 365mm TRX, used on Tempazes and Escort/EXP's.