Oz raceing wheel rebuild

Oz raceing wheel rebuild

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wedged up

Original Poster:

353 posts

94 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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The wheel that came on the car had at sometime been powder coated which I didn't really like so I bought another set and rebuilt them .
This was when I got them .

wedged up

Original Poster:

353 posts

94 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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I bought the 10 point tool and split them . Proberbly took about an hour to do all four with a little impact driver .
I then prepped and sprayed them the same colour as the car .

wedged up

Original Poster:

353 posts

94 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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phillpot

17,115 posts

183 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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Look very nice.


Out of curiosity what did you use to seal them?

wedged up

Original Poster:

353 posts

94 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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Some super dooper silicon ! Low modulus , it doesn't react with metal .

JVaughan

6,025 posts

283 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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Did you change the outers or just polish them ?

I heard that the Tuscan racers used to use plain old silicon

wedged up

Original Poster:

353 posts

94 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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Changed the outers ' I got the 2" dish for the front making them an 8j wheel but got deeper dishes for the rear taking them out to 8.5 j .

wedged up

Original Poster:

353 posts

94 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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The centre covers were pieces of 3 or 4 mm alley , they came with the wheels with just the hole drilled out for the fixing bolt . I had that counter sunk then got the centres machined out by 1-2mm to accommodate the new TVR logo's .

mrzigazaga

18,555 posts

165 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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Very nice...Good job mate...thumbup

JVaughan

6,025 posts

283 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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I need new centre caps ... noticed the other day that the plastic on two of mine has started to crack.

wedged up

Original Poster:

353 posts

94 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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Yeh that happened to mine and one of them just flew off one night , never to be seen again .

AM400

1,196 posts

263 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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I would be interested to know where you brought the new rims from. I have a spare set that I was thinking of having a go at but a couple of rims are buckled.

You have done a nice job on those.

JVaughan

6,025 posts

283 months

JVaughan

6,025 posts

283 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Do we know what the correct size wheel bolt is ?

is it M7 x 24mm Bolts ?

wedged up

Original Poster:

353 posts

94 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Yeh M7 x24 . Although I used 32mm. Split rim desighn did supply the rimms but they are useless & they're correspondence is appalling . Also I orderd the bolts from them and they never showed up& im still trying to get refunded for them . That was a month ago !

adam quantrill

11,538 posts

242 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Mmm so you could order a 5" inner barrel and 6.5" outer rim, add the width of the centre bit, that would be about 17J? That would make an interesting rear wheel...

TVRleigh_BBWR

6,552 posts

213 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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I do have a set of 16" 11J's I got from a westfield, I could do with making them smaller though.

wedged up

Original Poster:

353 posts

94 months

Wednesday 24th August 2016
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You'd deffo have a panamar moment with 17j rimms on ur car . I think you should do it though ;-)

wedged up

Original Poster:

353 posts

94 months

Wednesday 24th August 2016
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On the car !

RetroWheels

3,384 posts

271 months

Wednesday 24th August 2016
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wedged up said:
On the car !
Can't think of a TVR that doesn't look right on split rims , but those O.Z look particularly good on your Wdge

Very Dishy smokin