Last jobs......Wilwood 4 Pots and center caps

[gmw9666]

Tonight Matthew I've been cleaning and painting my Wilwood 4 Pot calipers and making some bespoke wheel centre caps for the Compomotive Alloys

Well pleased. Got some centre cap TVR stickers due in the post

[KKson]

Very nice. What pads are you running on them Glen? I went for standard EBC on my HiSpec ones but now wishing I'd gone for Mintex 1144's for that extra bite.

[gmw9666]

KKson said:

Very nice. What pads are you running on them Glen? I went for standard EBC on my HiSpec ones but now wishing I'd gone for Mintex 1144's for that extra bite.

Hi Keith

Not sure, I want to say carbone lorraine but the spelling on the old receipt is horrific and I wasnt sure those were around back when they were fitted

Either way they do bite very well cold and even better once a little warmer

[adam quantrill]

I was looking at your wheels (and exposed hub nuts) at the fest and wondering what you could do with that.

I had an alternative idea - on one wheel nut per wheel, weld on a nut (say an M6) centrally onto the top.

Then you can put a flat disc type cover in the centre, covering all the nuts, and secured with a countersunk bolt. If you use a black disk and a black japanned bolt it would look pretty cool.

[gmw9666]

adam quantrill said:

I was looking at your wheels (and exposed hub nuts) at the fest and wondering what you could do with that.

I had an alternative idea - on one wheel nut per wheel, weld on a nut (say an M6) centrally onto the top.

Then you can put a flat disc type cover in the centre, covering all the nuts, and secured with a countersunk bolt. If you use a black disk and a black japanned bolt it would look pretty cool.

Yes, they caused me a right headache. I originally bought some proper compomotive caps as they still sell them but for some reason these wheels don't have a groove in the centre bore. Bugger I thought

The bore is 63mm so hit the interweb for ideas and found some high pressure builders pipe for swimming pool. External dia of 63mm and a very nice tight interference fit. Cut the pipe on the band saw and then located some regular centre caps of eBay for the 58mm internal diameter. Glue both parts together and paint

Bingo lol

Bit of a faff but a nice solution and will look great with the tvr logo on

[GOG440]

gmw9666 said:

Yes, they caused me a right headache. I originally bought some proper compomotive caps as they still sell them but for some reason these wheels don't have a groove in the centre bore. Bugger I thought

The bore is 63mm so hit the interweb for ideas and found some high pressure builders pipe for swimming pool. External dia of 63mm and a very nice tight interference fit. Cut the pipe on the band saw and then located some regular centre caps of eBay for the 58mm internal diameter. Glue both parts together and paint

Bingo lol

Bit of a faff but a nice solution and will look great with the tvr logo on

Do you have a picture of your creative centre cap solution?
I have some OZcopy wheels but no centre caps

[gmw9666]

GOG440 said:

Do you have a picture of your creative centre cap solution?
I have some OZcopy wheels but no centre caps

Errr look at the picture in my post ;-)

[gmw9666]

Final shot now with my cap stickers

Looks cool IMHO :-)

[wedgemaniac456]

Really nice job Glen looks great