Yes to a degree, and you are not wrong. It's pretty good fit though and you could seal the grooves in with something for a piece of mind but just throwing it out there as another option they really do work to hold the hub on in a failure. Plus we rarely drive our cars in car weather or sub par...
We use these for derbying but I also put them on daily driver cars Incase a wheel bearing fails this will save you from a wheel falling off until you can stop I promise you that.
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Very good, I will round some up they may not all be a perfect match of width but they all came from C bodies so I know they fit. Most will be 15x6 regular steels I think one is 15x7 I seen. I'm trying to find some bare rims that I don't have to dismount. Be patient I'm in the middle of crazy...
I have been awful busy with working crazy 14 hour days at work and it's planting season here in Wisconsin and we have a newborn at home so I got a little bit done. I did start on the rear frame rails. Cardboard paper template of the side and bottom of frame and transfer to 11ga steel and cut...
For the pinch frame cars like cordobas and R body cars I flip them right on the roof and weld every single body seam on the car. But Jeff I haven't done that in a while good idea!