I recently purchased some Racing Hart C5's... The inside of the wheel has 5 different lug patterns casted into the outer piece of the wheel... I assumed that this meant these wheels were universal 4 & 5 Lug. I tired bolting them up to a 5x114 car, and they would not fit. They appear to be just 4x100 and 4x114. Does anyone know anything about this??

 

appears to have 5 bolt patterns

 

Well, the wheel is just 4x100 and 4x114.3, but they listed every bolt pattern that the wheel came in... strange.

Are you sure that those aren't Racing Hart EVO C5's? (knock-off manufacturer)

 

I'm think they are the real thing... they are stamped on the front w/ RH Evolution and came w/ Racing Hart center caps.... mine look like this:




Modified by pizzle at 12:37 AM 3/5/2008


Modified by pizzle at 12:37 AM 3/5/2008

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by pizzle &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I'm think they are the real thing... they are stamped on the front w/ RH Evolution and came w/ Racing Hart center caps.... mine look like this:




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Those are the knock-off's.

Here's a picture of the real deal:

 

every set of racing harts i have owned ie : 3 piece c5, m5, m6, etc had all the pcds stamped on the inner spokes..i guess it's just dazz (harts) method of saving money and just using the same exact casting mold whether they be 5x100/5x114, 4x100/5x100,etc,etc and not all the hart c5 rims are knockoffs..some actually had racing hart stamped on the spokes but then alter on the rh line came out from dazz which were actual one piece simulations of the real things... the rim in the original post is part of the rh line and is not a hart made rim though...the 'rhc5e2' stands for rhc5evolution2..i believe the evo1 was the actual 1 piece version of the hart c5

 

I remember when these wheels first came out...they sold them right down the road from my house at Les Schwab Tire Co.... They sold one version that had a Racing Hart decal on one spoke.... then the second generation came out, which is what I have...w/ RH Evolution stamped in the spoke. These wheels were not on the cheaper end of wheels when they were selling them... I think some where around $275 a wheel.

 

yeah around 250 sounds about right and that is about how much the 1st one piece harts were... the real 3 piece ones were about 500 a piece.. this is how the 1st gen hart c5 1 piece looked like:

http://i148.photobucket.com/al...9.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/al...8.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/al...5.jpg

 

for sure universal 4

 

I realize they are universal 4 lug.... just wondering why they are casted w/ all the different bolt patterns. Must be because the outer piece is a casting and they probably made the cast the same for all the wheels because casts are so expensive to make.

 

all of these wheels were made w/ the same casting and were drilled afterwards w/ universal pcds... hence the solid hub...obviously, this was ALL done to save on costs

 

i have these C5's and need the center caps, anybody have them?

http://i148.photobucket.com/al...5.jpg

 

http://www.hondamarketplace.com/show....php?t=2492036

 

thats been sold for 4 days now

 

Oops. Reading owns me. Check ebay every once in awhile.

 

thanks