I'm doing this from my phone and can't upload all pics at once. These are some wheels I am looking at picking up for my Astro. I know that a few manufacturers made wheels much like these. I can find only one mark that might be a maker's mark. The center cap, which I hope to show in another few minutes, may or may not be original to the wheels. I just want to know who made these wheels and I haven't figured out how to figure it out.
Center cap.
Manufacturer mark?
Load rating info.
They're made by Superior, at least the center caps are.
Superior Dynomo II
11 minutes and 16 minutes for ID. Damn
Fantastic! Thanks to both of you. That was surprisingly fast after I spent two hours googling. I guess I have two follow-up questions:
Are these generally considered good wheels compared to the other makers of similar designs?
And since they are unilug, which is all new to me, should I be using offset washers? I would be using them on a 5X5 pattern.
They're the ones with sketchy lug holes?
Center cap says "dp" until you rotate it 90 and realize it's an "S"
reminded me of the kid at AdvanPepZone who admired my gold mesh "588" rims. I didn't have the heart to tell him he was looking at BBS upside-down
Those lug holes look like someone added a second bolt pattern. They don't appear to be machined as an oval, but are two overlapping drilled holes. I had a set of wheels back in the day that were manufactured to fit multiple bolt patterns and they used oval holes and washers and had an indent to locate the washers. These look like a home brewed solution, not sure I'd run them but it certainly looks like they have been used with simple round washers.
In reply to DeadSkunk (Warren) :
Right, the holes are peanut shaped instead of oval. It could have been done this way as a two bolt pattern factory solution rather than a unilug 4.5-4.75-5 solution. In a way, I like it better since there would be at least something more than a half circle of guidance for the lugs.
I could also weld these holes shut and drill new holes 36 degrees off from the originals.
It does kinda spook me that the wheel would be neither hub centric nor lug centric.
In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :
Before somebody identified the wheels here, I did have a second thought that it could be dp instead of an S.
I'm pretty sure those are the same wheels I had on the '71 240Z I owned in the mid-'80s. Back then I had no idea who made them.
TIL: Think twice before you search "DP wheels" on googles.
AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:Center cap says "dp" until you rotate it 90 and realize it's an "S"
reminded me of the kid at AdvanPepZone who admired my gold mesh "588" rims. I didn't have the heart to tell him he was looking at BBS upside-down
Did this same kid admire the "710" cap on your valve cover? 
Project822 said:In reply to DeadSkunk (Warren) :
Right, the holes are peanut shaped instead of oval. It could have been done this way as a two bolt pattern factory solution rather than a unilug 4.5-4.75-5 solution. In a way, I like it better since there would be at least something more than a half circle of guidance for the lugs.
I could also weld these holes shut and drill new holes 36 degrees off from the originals.
It does kinda spook me that the wheel would be neither hub centric nor lug centric.
Check the back of the mounting - some wheels have indents / waffling / or whatever that makes the mounting face uneven.
Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:TIL: Think twice before you search "DP wheels" on googles.
And it's to bad because DP made some awesome wheels.
In reply to chandler :
Yeah, and the "DP" part turns up a lot of videos that you don't want on your work computer's IP history.
Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to chandler :
Yeah, and the "DP" part turns up a lot of videos that you don't want on your work computer's IP history.
DP Rims.
Just so this thread comes up in the search results.
L5wolvesf said:Project822 said:In reply to DeadSkunk (Warren) :
Right, the holes are peanut shaped instead of oval. It could have been done this way as a two bolt pattern factory solution rather than a unilug 4.5-4.75-5 solution. In a way, I like it better since there would be at least something more than a half circle of guidance for the lugs.
I could also weld these holes shut and drill new holes 36 degrees off from the originals.
It does kinda spook me that the wheel would be neither hub centric nor lug centric.
Check the back of the mounting - some wheels have indents / waffling / or whatever that makes the mounting face uneven.
They are solid on the backside, so drilling and filling might be an option. I don't have the equipment to do the drilling myself, so I will call some shops today to ask about drilling a new pattern. I will also ask them if they can redrill the 5X5 pattern in the original location if I TIG in the non-original pattern.
Given the witness marks, I think that these were originally 5X5 (what I actually need now) and had the second pattern drilled out to fit the Marcury Park Lane that they had been on before removal. If only I had a time machine, I might have been able to save them from being redrilled.
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