new beginnings...

[dubbed_up_daz]

Yeah,and totally my own fault which just makes me feel worse. The adaptors are just loaners from a friend while I got an alignment done and get it measured for my own adaptors which will be slightly fleshier

[dom123]

mate that colour combo of the white and maroun goes perfect loving it! wish we had rados here

[dubbed_up_daz]

kinda been mad busy with stuff,got side tracked with a present for my sisters 21st










............



coming soon

[dubbed_up_daz]

and was at ultimate dubs last weekend(uk show)

various friends shots






beside a friends new purchase




road home

[Jarred]

sitting pretty, sittinhg very pretty!

[GoLfMan]

Rado is just looking pukka mate Great colour combo. But dam white wheels are hard to keep clean! (the d90's are a bitch!)

[dom123]

massive props mate cant get enough of this car!

[dubbed_up_daz]

thanks been a bit busy with work lately to get any work done on the car although Ive a few bits arriving for the mk1 soon. But some work stuffs pics to keep the thread interesting

these were my sisters ronal teddies that she asked me to polish a long while ago after I acid dipped them


gave them a runover with a satin mop


which isnt a clean job...


then a quick polish


but the plastic caps were an issue


bought some billet and got it chopped and turned up as I intended making some polisheable centres

[dubbed_up_daz]

had a set of splits come through the work that awakened a dormant beast id had a hankering to cut up a spare set of 15" pirellis to make into a set of split rims for long enough but this was like kizmet or something


only issue was finding another set of the og wheels to use as donors plus the lips I tried were 17's...then I came across a couple sets of 15" splits that looked like they would work and would be more acceptable sizewise on my sisters polo...

got carried away convoluting and over-engineering round potential issues then spotted a very simple solution through a forum,got in touch with the guy and presto...back on track. These wheels were originally for my sisters old car(6n polo)so in the interim while I hummed and hawwed her upgrade to a 6n2 gti to celebrate a promotion at work kinda vetoed her thoughts of these wheels reaching her car....

invigorated by the new inspiration I got jiggy with the grinder

[dubbed_up_daz]

blagged some lathe time at my old fabshop which my old boss graciously put up with,basically I was supposed to pick up the lathe fixment tool at the show I was at from the above rolling shots but it was forgotten and long story short I got it delivered at the start of last week and had fairly short time to use the lathe as my old boss is heading back to the middle east as part of his new job,queue a weeks worth of very late nights....




first centre fiitting into the barrel was a seminal moment for me,20 months in the planning and sourcing




rear of all four centres machined

[dubbed_up_daz]

starting to turn down the outside diameter of the new 'centres'


gigglez


OD sorted but pre-face machinage lip trial fit




all four rears sorted,celebrated a bit

[dubbed_up_daz]

drilled half a dozen holes to allow a dry trial build so I could try them on my sisters car to tie in with her finally getting her coils fitted








some more for the laughs...(replacement door for my corrado in pic to keep thread on track :p )

[dubbed_up_daz]

I only had time to give one a semi-final skim on the face and drill a few holes but presented her with the wheels at a local meet on the premise that as her car had been lowered,the garage the meet had been held at wanted to double check her alignment Considering she thought her 14s were going to be polished she seemed pretty happy and as a present for her 21st I thought it was suitably diverse

[dubbed_up_daz]

re-skimmed the first face and fully skimmed the remaing three the other night


checking the centre od against the barrel/lips od


with the worlds biggest verniers


ready for drilling...

[dubbed_up_daz]

semi update,all barrels machined down to fit. Every mm I stole from the barrels meant more meat on the actual centres which I preferred


lips hopefully machined down and bevelled tomorrow