Pic Request, Standard Body Gti With 4x Front Dimma Split Rims

[Chris Hughes 0]

Its the patterns that would be dear I think, my mate carl makes his own 10 and 13" rims, but tooling for a 15" is about £1000...........

 

So what I was considering was sourcing some rims from the likes of Image wheels.

 

Are'nt Image Wheels the people who made the wheels for Dimma in the first place. I'm sure thats where Nick (GTI6BOY) got his wheels from for his new Dimma from.

[GTI6BOY 29]

compomotive made the originals

[Chris Hughes 0]

compomotive made the originals

 

Ahh ok oops!

[Henry Yorke 269 3 Cars]

Its the patterns that would be dear I think, my mate carl makes his own 10 and 13" rims, but tooling for a 15" is about £1000...........

 

So what I was considering was sourcing some rims from the likes of Image wheels.

They are approx £100 a rim, so you are looking at £800 on rims alone. I spoke to compomotive a while back when looking to replace some on the Dimma 309. My brother picked up a set of Race wheels from a Morgan for not a lot of money which had the right rims on to replace the buckled ones

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

We will see, I was just planning on replacing the outer rim, need to sacrifice a wheel first to see if its possible!

[Baz 421]

What's an SMR for a worthy sacrifice!

[sonofsam 5]

Its the patterns that would be dear I think, my mate carl makes his own 10 and 13" rims, but tooling for a 15" is about £1000...........

 

Cool, does he run a PNC lathe? We may be able to turn down an existing chuck wich would reduce the cost, I'll ask the tool maker anyway!

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

Pass on the PNC bit, he owns his own patterns, and has the rims spun for him by a local firm.

[sonofsam 5]

Hopefully the Boss will retire soon anyway, so we can do some homework on this subject!

We've been talking about this all day really Tom A few ideas have been floating around

about parting off the rim and machining a register to accept the rear of another 1.9 alloy to create

8" rims with 0ET.

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

I guess that certainly could be done, I was just thinking of the two piece conversion as a way to have something different. Carl does them on various 10" mini wheels and they look good (IMO)

 

For example