Should slicers match?

[mlatten]

Two of my slicers are chewed up, one left and one right. I have a parts car with 2 perfect rims, but they are different by one detail - they all have a depression milled in to make center cap removal easier. None of my slicers have this.

So, should I wait for another set of rims to come around, or drive with the mismatched slicers? Again, they're the same slicers as mine (I guess they're all the same, lol), just with that depression about a half inch wide at the caps.

I don't have a camera to show everyone pictures with, but I figure this must be a common discrepency amoung SHO owners.

Thanks for the input,
Matt

 

[CerberuS]

lemme guess , your parts car is a 90-93.

94-95 are italian slicers (look in back ) , others are Canadian 90-93 are NOT directional , while 94-95 have lefts and rights.

 

[Minnesho]

what he said, to tell the difference look under the center cap, it will say Italy or Canada. I have one canadian slicer on my car the rest are Italian. but the canadian one was the same direction as the one i replaced, so the only difference is the notch for removing the center cap, which i wish the directional slicers had.

 

[Dave Kegel]

lemme guess , your parts car is a 90-93.

94-95 are italian slicers (look in back ) , others are Canadian 90-93 are NOT directional , while 94-95 have lefts and rights.

'93s have directional Italian slicers.

Dave

 

[mlatten]

You know, that's kind of what I thought. When I got it back to the house (bought it ten months ago, hehe) I popped a center cap off of one but sure enough, it's got Italy molded right in. I just checked the title, and it's a 94.

By non-directional, do you mean it's just not stamped LH RH, because they're identicle to every other slicer I've seen; six slanted pillars that matter which side of the car they're put on.

Thanks for the response,

Matt

 

[SHO Continental]

You know, that's kind of what I thought. When I got it back to the house (bought it ten months ago, hehe) I popped a center cap off of one but sure enough, it's got Italy molded right in. I just checked the title, and it's a 94.

By non-directional, do you mean it's just not stamped LH RH, because they're identicle to every other slicer I've seen; six slanted pillars that matter which side of the car they're put on.

Thanks for the response,

Matt

Non directional are all the same as the wheels on the right side when compared to italian slicers.

 

[98TRSHO]

it took me a long time to really see the difference between directional's and no directional's.. I still have to really look at them sometimes. As for the notch, my 94 had holes drilled in the center caps just big enough for a screwdriver for easy removal. I hated them it looked like crap and made a nice area for Bee's to make a home. Is it a hole or just like a little divit?

 

[mlatten]

In this thread, scroll down to post #20. This guy painted his, but the ones on my parts car are the regular silver.

http://www.shoforum.com/showthread.php?t=53630&highlight=paint+slicers

This is an example of a Canadian, non-directional? Then mine must be canadian.

If their not direction specific, I'm not going to mix and match with the ones on my car, since I need one for each side.

Thanks, this answers my question. Thanks again,

Matt

 

[SuperHO]

My car has the same thing....the two left side rims are canadian (i.e. indents for the ease of center cap removal) and the two right side are Italian....no indents. I'm the only one who can tell the difference, so I could really care less, since they're all directional.

 

[mlatten]

Thanks for all the help everyone. I do finally see the difference between the two types.

Matt

 

[CerberuS]

'93s have directional Italian slicers.

Dave

Yes my bad , its 93-94-95 that has italians.

Look in the back of the rim , its written CANADA or ITALY.

On the ITALY ones , its also wirtten LEFT or RIGHT.

 

[SlowHeavyObject]

to clear it up:

sets of non-directional "canadian" slicers all "slice" the same way = all the rims are the same when compared to each other.
so when looking at them mounted on a car, one side of the car slices forward and the other side slices backward.

sets of directional "italian" slicers have 2 rims slicing right and 2 slicing left.
so when looking on a car both the right and left sides slice forward.

 

[Niki Knuckles]

Last week, I bought a slicer from wreckers. A left Italian. Has notch for centre cap removal. Came from a 94-95 ATX. No notch in my other slicers.

 

[CerberuS]

Umm as for the cap knotch , i didnt knew that , i only knew about the canadian-italian diff.