Romans Daily/Drifter/Track Car

[180roman]

bought some BC coilovers 2 weeks ago and fitted them last week

here is how it sits now



the rest will be unveiled at the Melbourne SW Meet and Greet once i get the guards rolled, fit new wheels and drop it some more

[Oxer]

Roman!

Give it to me, Ill run them.

[vishes]

LOL! This guy!

[180roman]

i probably won't be doing any more sanding on the LMs, i'll be giving them to someone else to sand and polish because with the rate of time i spend on those wheels, i won't have them ready by SW Melbourne meet.

That one wheel alone took me over 10 hrs of work

so i've currently taken on another project

had some BBS RS 16x8.5 +14 arive from Japan 2 weeks ago, so i went to work on these

Bolts removed


The 68 nuts and bolts + 2 stem valaves


one of the nuts will definitly need replacing as i was lucky to just be able to unscrew it, it just kept slipping off and rounding as it was badly rusted

BBS Stack


I felt hungry today and decided to cook up some wheels




The weapons of choice for splitting wheels

Ta-da!!!

Got Dish?

16x12 -30 LOL

[anth]

looking good man, are you going all the way up to 2000grit?

[180roman]

so i've been working on one of the LMs and here is the progress

after sanding it with 180 grit, 240 grit, 600 grit and 1200 grit they came up pretty good, although they look brushed, coz i didn't polish them.

[Oxer]

That would be pretty intense haha...

[180roman]

maybe not new

i'm thinking of running rear inner and outer barrels bolted to the front centers for some 17x9 +12 fitment
and for the rears it would be inner front barrels with rear centers and some new 1" wider(3" or 2.5") lips for some 17x9 -4 fitment

[Oxer]

hmm... new lips are in order me thinks.

[180roman]

i'm hopping to be running LMs on the 26th

The RS's will probably end up going for a rebuild

i need to get one of the front barrels welded as it has a hairline crack and the outer lips have copped a bit of a hard time on the front
i had a tire pop off the bead while drifting and i ended up sliding sideways on lip
i once tapped a gutter with the front wheel sideways and i also got another dint recently from a pothole

[180roman]

***all pictures are now fixed and should be working***

[Oxer]

yeah i know i'll ask Laurence from WheelTech how much to just coat the lips

thats coz u got the Track model CCWs which are raw

oh also a little birdie/tracking number told me that my skid wheels are almost here
they arrived in Sydney on Thursday, which means they will be here on Monday

i've got something special in store for those

Which is Why I am not rushing to clear them haha.. To me they are just wheels.

Cant wait to see what you do with then next set haha.. You gonna run the lm's on the 26th? or rs?

[180roman]

i can't see pictures in this post and the one before it

i'll fix that in a minute

will re-host pics to photobucket

[180roman]

yeah i know i'll ask Laurence from WheelTech how much to just coat the lips

thats coz u got the Track model CCWs which are raw

oh also a little birdie/tracking number told me that my skid wheels are almost here
they arrived in Sydney on Thursday, which means they will be here on Monday

i've got something special in store for those

[Mark Ostrowski]

a couple of hrs of hard work

i decide to use the wheel with the most clear coat damage and 2 little bits of gutter rash, just in case i damage the clear coat more while sanding them

i also quickly reassembled the wheel centers in the position i would like to run them on the car with 4 bolts to hold them in place and measured the offset with a ruler, confirming that my calculations were correct, making them 9" +5 offset

here is the result




other than that great work so far

i really don't like the visible line between the clear coat and the part i sanded and quickly polished with a rag, so i think my only choice is to fully strip the clear coat and re polish the lips

there is also a slight 0.5mm step in the lip between the clear coat and the part i sanded, which i will also need to sand down when i get some more abrasive sandpaper, 100grit should do

i can't see pictures in this post and the one before it