dubbed_up_daz 8 Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 my sister got these a few years ago for her 6n polo when she was a wee lasstold her id polish them for her christmas one year and even made a startbut they have plastic centre caps which mucks up that plangot some billet and even managed to get one of the blocks turned to sizebut she got a promotion at work and celebrated by buying a 6n2 gti which the 14s wouldnt have worked on so they languished for a while.........and a while longer............then one of those strange things happened while I was mucking about in work...randomly moving stuff about and having a laughnow....years ago id planned making a spare set of 15" pirellis I had into split rims but couldnt find suitable donors and the design of the pirellis made it almost impossible to translate to a workable wheel but these had potential...........I had a couple spare sets of 15" splits id put aside for my own long term project but measured them up and figured to use the narrower set as donorsso got jiggy with the grinderthen got more jiggy on the latheta daaaaaaafrom one!!! centredrilled half a dozen holes in a centre so I could do a dry build for a trial run to check fitsurprised my sister with them for her 21st birthdayfinished machining the rest of the centresdecided to split my other set of wider wheels and basically make the teddies into a staggered setfinished of drilling the holes in the original centre....because id left as much of the original wheel as I could to retain strength it meant they were impossible to centralise and drill a couple of holes and fix the wheel solid and drill the rest using the barrels as guides so every single hole the wheel needed built,checked,marked,split,pilot hole,rebuilt and checked,then resplit and drilled....x35 holes,x4 wheels.....the donor wheels luckily featured barrel mounted 90' valves which I could work in with the original bears valve hole so opened it up slightlyand finally had all four wheels drilled and ready for valves took them to bits and satin mopped the centres to key them for paint(theyll eventually be polished but not until I fabricate the metal centre caps way down the line)and put them loosely back together to show my sister them and let her bf take a couple pictureslight was failing so he literally only took a coupleMy sisters happy and im glad that the bulk of the fab is now finished,got a few details to fix like the id off the lips needs taken out and the lips need properly polished amongst others but theyre definately getting there Link to post Share on other sites
bungy 2 Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 Loving the path of progress and they will stand out as something truly original. I tip my hat to you.... Link to post Share on other sites
spadam 7 Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 Some seriors work there and look great Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Seabrook 4 Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 Daz mate as already said- awesome simply awesome Link to post Share on other sites
J5KE F 0 Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 Ingenious work dude!I love these wheels and even more now theyre split! Awsome!!!! Link to post Share on other sites
dubbed_up_daz 8 Posted November 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 cheers all,im actually quite looking forward to seeing how they look painted Link to post Share on other sites
cabrioman 6 Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 blimy mate nice work !!! .... Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Seabrook 4 Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 cheers all' date='im actually quite looking forward to seeing how they look painted [/quote']what colour they going to be mate ? got to be bear orange surely !! :-d Link to post Share on other sites
lumoxs 0 Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 these are amaizing!!! Link to post Share on other sites
rodney 17 Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 i like the debris teddy bear... Link to post Share on other sites
nivag27 5 Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 Wow dude wow Link to post Share on other sites
Ian_rogers 0 Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 I am majorly impressed by this!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites
filtee 0 Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 Holy shish kebab. I like Link to post Share on other sites
dubbed_up_daz 8 Posted November 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 theyll be different colours if I know my sister :/ Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Seabrook 4 Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 ha ha probably the only set of wheels you could do that to though, they are going to stand out a mile anyway so why not grab some extra attention ! Link to post Share on other sites
dubbed_up_daz 8 Posted November 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 just to clear up the wheels themselves wont be a scene kids smartie party The centres will all be a similar base colour and the 'bears' will probably be diferent colours/themes Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Seabrook 4 Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 lol @ smartie party yeah I got what you meant mate, think it will look good tbh Link to post Share on other sites
dubbed_up_daz 8 Posted November 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 my only concern will be the difference between the final polished sand cast centres and the polished aircraft grade billet centres but will have to decide when that happens to go via the plating route on the centres but thats at least 18 months away now. Shes definately going to go for next year in paint Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Seabrook 4 Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 cool love them mate and look forward to seeing them in paint Link to post Share on other sites
dubbed_up_daz 8 Posted November 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 me too one of my other sisters friends is a proper artist so hopin she'll have a hand in the paint Link to post Share on other sites
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