Converting 4x4 split rims to car PCD???

Just make some uber Area 52 10mm hub adaptors be lots cheaper and easier.

Matt

Sounds like a sensible enough idea, would look much better than adaptors too - 4x4 wheels have a huge centre bore which you would have to disguise if you ran them with adaptors.

Sholud be fairly straight forward to get done and I wouldn't imagine hugely expensive, going by work I've had done by my local ally welding place.

Also it would be an easy way to get some seriously wide monster offset rims on your motor!

Joe

I saw in a mag, PPC possibly, they had plugs made and pressed into existing holes, then welded over and machined flat. then they drilled the PCD they wanted and it looked brilliant, couldnt tell what had been done.

I did think about that but the PCD on the shogun wheels is something like 6x130 with a huge center bore, so I'm not sure if 4x108 would fit inside

Anyway I think spacers would be a good idea, although what the best way to go about fabricating them? have anyone got a guide?

I doubt that this would really be that cheap. Have you priced it? For the first thing, you will have to find a reputable fabrication shop to do the work, and then one of those that will take the work on (for various reasons many wont). Then, as you well know, they have to get every cut right - 2mm out with throw the whole wheel out of true, and if it's been welded by then, it will have to be cut back to rectify it. Not to mention that it will then all need alloy welded, and very well at that, then ground back and finished. It isn't a quick job, and it will be expensive to be right, or cheap and badly done.

Of course, getting it done right would be the perfect option, but unless Robin can Tig weld and has a lathe, I can't see any way that this can be satisfactorily done cheaply. I certainly wouldn't run a wheel made like this from a low quality shop, and I'm a bodger and a cheapskate.



You're just right, as MM said the centre bore of most big 4x4s (certainly the Mitsubishi offerings you mentioned) are 108, which would give you nothing to work with except air...



I think (maybe?) I get what you're suggesting... An adapter plate made up, but instead of bolts through the 4x4 wheel, it's welded in place instead? You could use the bolts to line it up first and weld with it centralised...

Oh and one last point, if you did go with adapters, it wouldn't look silly at all, because like most wheels, 4x4 rims can have centre caps too

Could you get some blank centres made up, drilled to 4x108.
They would look a lot like SSR MK1s.

Mark you know what I'm talking about these are the secs!

Theres always loads on ebay UK, we bought 4 of these with half worn tyres on for 200 quid, cheap enough i thought, you could probably get half that back if you sold the tyres on.

Perfectly possible to do and easy enough if you have a decent and BIG gap bed lathe.

If you had a lathe big enough to grab the wheel it's be an easy job but lathes that big exist only in my deams and industrial factories.

I'd centre it on a mill then cut the centre out true with an offset boring head, then turn an ally plate with a centre hole and a step to fit perfectly in the hole i've bored in the wheel, drill the correct PCD in the plate with a rotary table in the mill, then fit the two together (the machined step will ensure they fit perfectly, then weld up and your done...

repeat x 4 simples, don't listen to the naysayer who says it cant be done ANY competent engineering shop can do this sort of work piece of pi$$, I reckon you'd be looking at £3-500 to get it done though, before we closed down our machine shop I'd certainly have been looking at a quote in that ball park, good couple of days work there..

****EDIT****
I'd have only used this method to do a billet wheel centre, I wouldn't fancy welding a cast centre... personally, I have very little experience of structural welding on cast ally... though I'm sure many better alloy welders would, tbh at the moment I'd have got a mate to do the ally welding even on billet anway as I'm badly out of practice..