Aussie wheel tech/discussions

[anthony--t]

I think I'm going to be doing the same thing Foff! I might try send one back down with the Melb boys at GAD

[foffa]

Whats the chances of someone being able to drop a centre off to whitehorse when I need lips and barrels made up? I'd probs also need everything shipped back to me/ maybe I can drive down when its ready and pick it up?

Will pay for your troubles with money/beer/sex/drugs you name it!

Wont be for a few weeks but yeah!

[dylan8]

Did the dirty and wedged a few old flat heads down the gap. Not sure why so stuck as looked like oem parts that haven't been apart before

[dylan8]

Having huge problems getting two barrels off my rs.
Out of the 10 or so sets I've split in the past, never been so stuck.

Been heating the carp out of it. Face down in a tyre standing and hammering. Face up on a stack of phone books, while my gf stands, on it beating it with a mallet and woody/hammer. Won't budge.

Any other ideas before I take it home to dad's press and push it out.

[SebastienPeek]

Last night I sealed the wheels up. Tonight, put the valves in two of them, as I need to strip the other RS' to get the other two valve stems unfortunately. The lips have different sized holes for the valves making it a bit difficult.

As you can tell, these are a bit of a zero fucks given rebuild of RS' out of spare parts.

IMG_0887 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr

IMG_0889 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr

It's just sort of, get tyres on them so there are less tyres in the garage for Mum to stress about.

IMG_0890 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr

Oh well.

[SebastienPeek]

gah, I should get out there and split some more RS

Do it.

I need to get out and finish the set I started on the weekend tonight. As well as adjusting my brakes and bleeding them again.

So much to do, so little time.

[dylan8]

gah, I should get out there and split some more RS

[skytup]

so this happened last week, picked up a set of work VS KF for $150 +shipping out of japan for the misses kia 15x6.5 +35 now the 6-8 week wait

[SebastienPeek]

Good work....sticking with black centres or doing something else? I'm keen to get on to my next build....some 17in Autostrada Modena's that should arrive today hopefully.

I reckon I'm going to stick with black. I don't really have the time/money to get them sandblasted and then powder coated.

Looking good seb, always admire your ability to just get out there and get shit done

Thanks Anth, means a lot coming from you

[anth]

Looking good seb, always admire your ability to just get out there and get shit done

[Beware]

Good work....sticking with black centres or doing something else? I'm keen to get on to my next build....some 17in Autostrada Modena's that should arrive today hopefully.

[SebastienPeek]

Today I got to it with the 16" RS build for Anja.

I built up four different sizes, two for the front and two for the rear so I could get an idea of what I could run.

Front two sizes were 16x7j +30 and 16x8j +17.3.

IMG_0859 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr

The two rear sizes were 16x7.5j +23.65 and 16x8.5j +10.95.


IMG_0857 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr

I am using the 0.5" lips that originally came with the set of wheels for the front and the 1" lips that I got when I bought the set for the Subaru from Stu. They were white but I grabbed some paint stripper and stripped them real good.

First coat of paint stripper.

IMG_0875 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr

IMG_0876 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr

Second coat of paint stripper.

IMG_0879 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr


IMG_0880 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr

Majority of the paint came off, the rest will come off when I sand them back before polishing.

IMG_0882 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr


IMG_0883 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr

And them all together being happy.

IMG_0881 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr

[skytup]

what wheels are you building? specs?

car looks good on seb's bbs rs. did you make it up to 100mm earlier this year? can't remember seeing your car...

currently building ROH modena 18's for some nice dailys, Kyusha wheel co. is doin all my build
loved the way my car looked on sebs RS's, should of done the swap along time ago, was going to pinch his centres and rebuild but keen for seb to build another subie so im trying to source my own centres
made it into 100mm but pulled out, work/ money/ and wasnt 100% happy the way the cars was looking, but this year is another story

[ating]

little excited is an understatement, been super keen for last 2 months waiting for mine, just need to get this set done and on the car so i can move onto the next set

what wheels are you building? specs?

car looks good on seb's bbs rs. did you make it up to 100mm earlier this year? can't remember seeing your car...

[anthony--t]

Dropped some lips and caps at the polishers today. Hopefully start reassembly for my set that I'm building in a little over a week. Once they're done I'll look into getting my bits done through Whitehorse when the account is healthy again.