How to widen 2pc wheels?

[e46cruiser]

Depending on how they are made in the 1st place but I will use my SSR Mesh wheels as an example

They are constructed by welding a rear barrel to the outer lip all the way around and then the face sits down inside the outer lip and bolts on.... hence 2 piece.

Well, put that wheel on a lathe, separate the rear barrel from the outer lip..... order new lips to size and re-weld back together and re-assemble. Boom.

Looks like so:

I think I understand what your saying but I'm not exactly sure lol could you please explain "better" haha sorry I just didn't completely grasp the concept of this!

[e46cruiser]

Depending on how they are made in the 1st place but I will use my SSR Mesh wheels as an example

They are constructed by welding a rear barrel to the outer lip all the way around and then the face sits down inside the outer lip and bolts on.... hence 2 piece.

Well, put that wheel on a lathe, separate the rear barrel from the outer lip..... order new lips to size and re-weld back together and re-assemble. Boom.

Looks like so:

I think I understand what your saying but I'm not exactly sure lol could you please explain "better" haha sorry I just didn't completely grasp the concept of this!

[electricalbox]

^^^^^^^^^^Nice and good example, OP check out this thread, it should be relevant to your interest.

http://www.stanceworks.com/forums/showthread.php?p=694745

[KarlSpackler]

How would that work exactly ?

Depending on how they are made in the 1st place but I will use my SSR Mesh wheels as an example

They are constructed by welding a rear barrel to the outer lip all the way around and then the face sits down inside the outer lip and bolts on.... hence 2 piece.

Well, put that wheel on a lathe, separate the rear barrel from the outer lip..... order new lips to size and re-weld back together and re-assemble. Boom.

Looks like so:

[Francois Dillinger]

Just the same except you have to make it look pretty. The company that makes adaptech adapters said they can do it and have them fully polished after.

[e46cruiser]

You can widen the lip side as well.

How would that work exactly ?

[Francois Dillinger]

You can widen the lip side as well.

[e46cruiser]

Yeah I've seen them and heard good things! I'm going to try and see if a local wheel shop can do it ! I'm assuming my offsets would be up in the 50s lol

[Strawhat]

Lookup a place called Weld craft wheels.
They're known for widening wheels, and I know a guy who widened his Style 5's this way. Much less expensive than a 3-piece set up.
However, when you add a band to the barrel, you raise the offset of the wheel depending on the width you widen it to.

[tiger5]

I remember when I had my style 42s, I was on trying to do that too. In the end I decided to buy some spacers and kept the negative camber to a minimum. I found that I had the grip and a pretty tight stance. Those wheels were meant to be 17X8, I feel.

[e46cruiser]

Widening a wheel by banding is usually done for steel wheels and single piece aluminum wheels but with multi piece wheels there are too many stresses involved in order to do it safely IMO.

Mammon okay I see what your saying.

[martinm13]

Widening a wheel by banding is usually done for steel wheels and single piece aluminum wheels but with multi piece wheels there are too many stresses involved in order to do it safely IMO.

[e46cruiser]

I'm not sure if widening them by cutting them in half and welding metal between them is a safe idea. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I've heard. If you were to do that, it would just raise the offset of the wheels. If you were really desperate, you could attempt to cut the faces cut off, them modify them into a 3 piece wheel with new barrels.

I've seen one guy "whosshaunquill" on here that has widen his wheels by this method and haven't seen anything bad, but Im not completely sold on it lol and that 3pc conversion would cost too much money I'm assuming so that's why I asked about the band method. It seems cheaper and simpler to do.

[Mr Von Smack]

I'm not sure if widening them by cutting them in half and welding metal between them is a safe idea. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I've heard. If you were to do that, it would just raise the offset of the wheels. If you were really desperate, you could attempt to cut the faces cut off, them modify them into a 3 piece wheel with new barrels.

[e46cruiser]

Okay so I just got a set of style 5s for dirt cheap and I was looking into making them wider, what would I have to do to make them wider? Just cut the wheel barrel in 2pc's and weld a band around it ? Also how would that affect the offsets ? Thank you in advance for the advice!