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any one ever use or have any thoughts on these wheels for spridget racing. Use them on legends, mini stock, dirt and ashault. Seem to be a nice decent choice. Keeping thier low price in mind of course. Thought a black set whould compliment my silver color scheme fairly well.
They come in sizes that will compliment the spridget just fine.

https://www.bassettwheel.com/legends_mini.html
 
One issue is the lug nut size.
These wheels are drilled for 1/2" lugs. They will work fine with normal 12mm or 7/16" lug nuts, which are easy to re-fit to the front of your car. For the rears, it's only possible to run bigger lugs if you have the double-bearing hubs..the stock, single-bearing hubs don't have enough "meat" to open them up (sorry, but I don't recall if you are running the db hubs on the rear).
If you're running the bigger lugs, these wheels themselves are fine for club racing. I realize that they are heavy, but for the first few years, that's really not as important as good general car prep and improvement of overall driver skills. And if you feel you want lighter wheels at some point, these would be good rain-tire rims.
As you may know, I am still running stock rims and the little (3/8") lugs nuts. I've run at least 10 events a year for the last 4+ years, which is probably a lot more than most people, so you don't need the latest and greatest if you're just out there to have fun (I did have one wheel failure, but I attribute that to an imported, non-Brit 3/8" lugnut that cracked and caused the wheel to fail).
The lightweight steel rims are a little thin, so be careful with tire mounting or they'll warp. Another, similar source is Diamond.

https://www.diamondracingwheels.com/RoadRaceSeries.htm

(I have these on my race-Escort)
 
Thanks for the great input, you hit many topics on the nose there. They would retire nicely to rain tires some day, I am planning on db hubs and was planning to upgrade to 7/16" studs.

Which brings a good question to what is a good source for the db hubs? I see a few suppliers at various prices that all claim to be the best?
 
We did make DBs hub for a few years, they were very good hubs, wh made a few changes to them to make them stronger, bottom line, there was no money in making or selling them, so we quit. With that being said, if I were going to buy a set of DB hubs for someone I would be buying them from Rob and Dave at Winners Circle, get the 7/16 studs from them while you're at it.
 
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