revell corvette wheel question

[Lownslow]

i love this wheel but the 2 vettes i gotten so far have a serious bolt pattern problem where 2 bolts a practically kissing, i found some amt wheels but they look small on a 1/24. did revell ever correct the problem of im better off with custom wheels.

Edited March 25, 2012 by Lownslow

[Casey]

Find a Monogram 1/24 scale ZR-1 Corvette kit, such as the molded-in-yellow '91 version, which is the kit these wheels came from:

Edited March 25, 2012 by Casey

[MikeMc]

Or upgrade to the Z06 wheels

[Scuderia]

This place here has the ZR-1 kits in question for 8 and 9 apiece if no one has any spare wheels on here. Also nice thing about the kit being so cheap is you can source the vette motor and interior bits for cool mash-ups..

[Lownslow]

Find a Monogram 1/24 scale ZR-1 Corvette kit, such as the molded-in-yellow '91 version, which is the kit these wheels came from:

thats what i dont want the bolt pattern is all messes up

[Casey]

Yes, one of the lug nuts on each wheel is incorrectly positioned, so nevermind my suggestion.

[Darin Bastedo]

This place here has the ZR-1 kits in question for 8 and 9 apiece if no one has any spare wheels on here. Also nice thing about the kit being so cheap is you can source the vette motor and interior bits for cool mash-ups..

Don't tell everyone! that's where I've been getting mine from!...lol

[Scuderia]

Don't tell everyone! that's where I've been getting mine from!...lol

lolz, cats out the bag eh?

[Lownslow]

lol @ scud, fixed it. afterwards i sharpened a tube to machine a would be centercap on it but im not drilling a bolt pattern i messed up the first attempt but it was better than revells the second time i did the centercap and decided to leave the bolt pattern blank, its up to the buyer then they can make them 4,5,6 lugs or leave it if they please.

[Scuderia]

nice nice i figured thats where the question was heading lol.

[deja-view]

I'm missing something here. I owned a '91 ZR-1 for 10 years, most of those with the sawblades before I replaced 'em with the 5-spokes. Those model wheel pics look like the 1:1, but with less detail of course. I don't see any lugnuts close to each other or out of position, so what are you referring to? They are a little close to the edge of the center area, but at 1/24 it's really not that noticeable. The ZR-1 lugnuts were NOT covered by a center cap. They each had their own plastic cap cover.

Sawblades:

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spokes:

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Edited March 26, 2012 by deja-view

[deja-view]

the wheel in the picture posted by Casey most definitely and without a doubt has a wonky bolt pattern that is not even.

the above posted kit is a ZR-1 and does have center caps over the lug nuts and hub too.

I guess the lugnuts on Casey's pic are a tiny bit mis-spaced, but at 1/24 I don't know who'd really notice. The wheels shown on this HP series ZR-1 kit are actually from the earler Corvettes (pre-90, not ZR-1). The 1990 used a similar wheel but without the large center cap. New wheels came with the '91 that are known as "sawblades', and do not have the center cover. So...it depends on what you're building to use those kit wheels with. The ones pictured by Casey are fine for 91 and up.

[deja-view]

Yeah, I couldn't remember "salad shooters"...always thought it didn't make sense. I guess Monogram wanted to get the jump on selling the new ZR-1 supercar kit, but they took pics from early GM factory promo stuff that ended up never being sold to the public. The few development cars that had the center covered caps were nonexistant as far as the public was concerned. Actually, I thought the sawblades were pretty odd, too. That's why I switched to the spokes as soon as I could.