Widening IX weaves

[Mossman]

OP when you ask a dumb question and get grilled you should just eat your humble pie not attack the people who rightfully called you dumb.

I don't feel bad calling you and your idea dumb cuz I once had the same idea. I was bringing a bunch of wheels to storage and to save space I put a style 5 lip/barrel over a 14" weave. Hey....that looks pretty good. Had the idea of cutting the face out of the weave and getting it machined to look just like a style 5 face. I pondered it for a while and realized RS's would be cheaper and known to be safe so I scrapped my STUPID IDEA. Your stupid idea is the same so drop it and shaddup. Widening wheels can be done, steel is done more than aluminum but some places do them too.

Weldcraftwheels...these guys are nuts they'll do anything. Call em up. Your wheel can have a 6"x2" chunk of lip missing and they'll mash some weld on it and make it look like a wheel again, pretty incredible.

[OOMPH!]

I talked to the machinist that redrilled my wheels, he did this once before for a guy and said he would never do it again because of the amount of work involved lol. Good luck.

[theox69]

There's a local (to me) guy on vwvortex with an R32 that widened his Aristo's. He cut them down the middle, and I think he might have used an oil barrel to fill them in, changing them from 7.5" to 10" IIRC.

It probably can be done, and it'll probably be pretty safe too. But don't forget, anything can be done with the right amount of money. It may not be worth it to have wheels widened when you could just got ahead and buy wider wheels. Plus keep in mind the offset may not work.

[thornado327i]

I personally like the idea - cut here, here and here, bolt here - done! Multipiece wheels!

But not sure about the outcome... You should try it on your spare first. Put it in the trunk, drive around for a week or so, and if you experience no issues - do the rest!

Go.



And for ultra wide lips, just cut a bucket.

[daniel]

save your money it's not worth it!!!!

this pretty much sums it up

[88driftIS]

seriously? good thing your not in indy. We already got a bad name going for us...

save your money it's not worth it!!!!

[S&E30]

2 pc, no. Widened, yes. I remember a few years ago someone had their R33 GT-R wheels widened.

[Kershaw]

cut the bolt heads off and glue them to the rim.

instant 2 piece.

[Active16Bits]

Just give it up. Anything can be done, but it would probably be cheaper and wayyyyyyyyyyyy more practical to just buy a 2-3 piece.

[Philo]

Your question had nothing to do with widening the wheels. You simply wanted to drill holes and add lips. This is not functional, cost efficient, or stable to say the least. Widening the wheels is an option, but the heat used to add the extra material would make your alloy wheels very, very weak and soft.

And to people who think they own threads: get over yourself. Just because you posted the topic doesn't give you control over its content.

[Stephen]

This has come up before. You can't make them multipiece, or at least multipiece and function. Like the thing posted above, you can widen them, but for the price of a set of ix weaves, spacers, hardware, donor wheel lips and the labor, you might as well just build some RS or even RM

[lifeiskaos]

Eric Vaughn's shop is 4 houses down the street from me. He's a cool guy. I'm sure he'll be able to widen them, but trying to bolt on a lip would just be silly.

[Ryann]

Naysayers: fuck off. OP: your guy's got to know WTF is going on because welding cast aluminum is crazy shit. Aluminum distorts wildly when heat is applied. It can be done, but to do it right should cost $$$.

[SFGadgetGuy]

Here's a company that does widening of aluminum wheels

http://www.ericvaughnmachine.com/Services.html

[Need4Speed1299]

Honestly, I don't think you can do it. Talk to a professional.

Ok thank you.