Wide body, 3 piece rpf1's Mk4 Golf build

[gusgus714]

Pics of car with wheels one time! Lol

[REVOofRustler]

This looks great! I love seeing all the custom pieces!

[Jay92]

Bring a tube bender that works lol

You having trouble making that one work?

[filtersweeper]

made some -3 degree camber shims for the back to run a bit of camber. Negative 3 shims sit like -3.5 when installed on the car. They have a +2 degree toe compensation machined into the shim. It will be subtle but noticeable due to the wide rears. Front bags are adjusted to about -2 degrees but things may change depending on the fenders. I picked up some nice pine to remake the sub frame/base for the rear bag setup. The new base sits flat and tight and I notched grooves for wires and machined pockets where the little steel angle braces I bent up and drilled. I still need some furniture style screw things where the top of the MDF will connect to the upper plastics. I also picked up 2 of these adjustable T-square for drywall applications which I added a second slot and threaded hole to so I could have an adjustable router template thing for doing the speaker moulding things on the box. Haven't really figured out the procedure on how to use it.

[filtersweeper]

DAMNNNN I need to come check it out one of these days

Bring a tube bender that works lol

[filtersweeper]

Out of curiosity how do you make a one piece wheel into a 3 piece? Just cut off the lip and barrel and machine a flat? Also, definitely sub'd for what looks like a great build and it's Canadian to boot!

Basically yes however the wheel must qualify for the conversion. There are only certain wheels that are eligible for this. Enkei seems to have designed their wheel face with a flange kind of in the right spot. Wheels that become thin on the outsides after turning on the lathe can be built up with weld or whatever. Check my Instagram to see more details. There are some short clips of the process including drilling

https://www.instagram.com/filtersweeper/

[DeltaAlpha9]

Out of curiosity how do you make a one piece wheel into a 3 piece? Just cut off the lip and barrel and machine a flat? Also, definitely sub'd for what looks like a great build and it's Canadian to boot!

[Jay92]

DAMNNNN I need to come check it out one of these days

[filtersweeper]

Good lord the machine work on those wheels is fantastic!

Thanks man!

[filtersweeper]

How thick is the flange on the rpf1's? My buddy machined a set of faces and the flange was way too thin to be safe.

.400" You're buddy took too much off. I left a radius on the top edge and didn't machine back to the holes to provide more strength. There was 100% surface to lip side and about 70% on barrel side before it started to curve away after the holes. I discussed it with an engineer friend and we determined it would be fine.

[Icana4dit]

How thick is the flange on the rpf1's? My buddy machined a set of faces and the flange was way too thin to be safe.

[fackinsteve]

Good lord the machine work on those wheels is fantastic!

[filtersweeper]

In for the machining! Nice work

Thank you sir 😄 🍻👍🏻

[filtersweeper]

sweet, mad skills.....

🍺🙏😊 thanks! I learn a lot just looking on Instagram and YouTube.

[jazig.k]

In for the machining! Nice work