Widened std. gtv6 wheels..~nice one Kev..-Barry
Paid ol` Kev a visit today and he showed me his new wheels..Bloody nice..
Widened std. gtv6 wheels..
Widened std. gtv6 wheels..
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French cars are shit and shit expensive to service and bloody awful and unreliable and expensive and friends don't let friends drive french cars and you wait years for parts.
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Its an old racing trick ..
You need 8 rims or at least 4 others that can be cut up to make the outer lips.
Machine the originals off and machine up the new outers from the donors..
Very important to have receiver type grooves for the 2 parts and then weld..
After welding,clean up and final machine-have them x-rayed and if they pass,paint and polish!
Kev used 4x 164 15 " wheels as donors..
You need 8 rims or at least 4 others that can be cut up to make the outer lips.
Machine the originals off and machine up the new outers from the donors..
Very important to have receiver type grooves for the 2 parts and then weld..
After welding,clean up and final machine-have them x-rayed and if they pass,paint and polish!
Kev used 4x 164 15 " wheels as donors..
French cars are shit and shit expensive to service and bloody awful and unreliable and expensive and friends don't let friends drive french cars and you wait years for parts.
Of course. You actually don't need 8 donor rims. Just add some matherial with the welding stick. Use alu for alu and steel 4 steel thoCan you make them 16 or 17 in diameter as well
The best welders can actually do even without any donor rims but just start drom the bolt holes. You just need to chose which bolt pattern to start from
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It ain't all roses here guys! This mod is as old as the wheels themselves but it doesn't always work. Are you sure you can trust the clowns doing the welding? Have you any idea of the wheel stresses involved during cornering with sticky tires? You mentioned x-ray testing....yeah, maybe 1 out of 1000 people doing this resorts to it! All the others are "sure" of a good solid job...I admit its tempting, as I can't find Compomotive MO larger than the 8" max they make, but no thanks.
Jim K.
Jim K.
If you think about it Jim, you'll also get an idea of the cornering stress.
Now divide the stress with the length of the weld. And compare this to tiny parts in the suspension. As long as it's not Mg I'd trust my neighbor to do it.
Things need to be fairly straight thouhg.
On the other hand I don't really see the need for this. I'm not a fan of OE nor Compo MO wheels so I can get the right size directly.
Now divide the stress with the length of the weld. And compare this to tiny parts in the suspension. As long as it's not Mg I'd trust my neighbor to do it.
Things need to be fairly straight thouhg.
On the other hand I don't really see the need for this. I'm not a fan of OE nor Compo MO wheels so I can get the right size directly.
The reason I talk about these wheels is that they resemble very closely the factory 75 GpA wheels, which were (!) 8.75"wide x16". The IMSA had...11" wide wheels but we're not building one. I would like to keep the looks reasonably close to the original where practical. This 'quasi'GpA project will really start moving after the damn book is out of the way.
Jim K.
Jim K.