So I've just brought a staggered set of 20" Lenso D1R's for my 2007 VE SS. The rear wheels are 20x10" with a +42 offset. My intention is to fit 285/30/20 tyres on them but I also want to hopefully avoid having to do any guard rolling or other modifications. The background to this project, if you're interested, is in the following thread: http://forums.justcommodores.com.au...6-2013/232336-255s-front-285s-rear-ve-ss.html The Tyre and Wheel shop that sold me the wheels tell me there's plenty of meat on the rear hubs of the wheels and that I can probably have up to 7mm milled off the back of them. If what they're telling me is correct this would give me a +49 offset, pretty much would be happy days and I'd probably achieve my aim. The rims are on the way to me from Melbourne and I'll have them next week so I'll take them to a wheel machinist as soon as I can, but realistically it might not be for a week or two at least. I'll obviously be guided by the experts when the machinist looks at them as to how much can be machined off without compromising the structural integrity of the rims. Yep, stating the obvious I know. :blah blah: But in the meantime, and the reason for this thread, is that I'm hoping some of the members on this forum might have done this specifically to a set of Lenso D1R's in the past on their rides and can give me a heads up on how much they were able to have milled off the back and also if there are any issues that I need to be aware of, to keep in mind, be careful of, tips, tricks or whatever. All suggestions, ideas, thoughts & comments appreciated.
Trying contacting the manufacturer......they should know ALL the specs of their wheels and how much tolerance they have. I personally, would prefer to hear it from them as opposed to someone 'thinking' that there should be enough to machine up to 7mm off if it was me. http://www.lensowheel.com/ Good luck with them.
Good idea SDMF - I'll send them an email. I was going to go by whatever the machinist told me but that's a good idea and info to have up my sleeve when I go to get them done. Cheers. Not sure how much it'll cost Vongy, but I'll let you know when I take 'em in.
I'd be much more comfortable rolling/pumping guards of a car than machining the wheel. At the end of the day the guard is cosmetic and but the wheel connects you to the ground. I know which one I'd rather be shifting.
1. Modifying a manufacturer's wheel by removing metal (when not designed for such purpose) renders the wheel unable to be legally fitted to your car in Aust. If you want to run around with the Lenso D1R wheels deemed un-roadworthy then modify them as you propose. If uncertain about this check the regs for yourself. 2. Removing metal from the wheels to achieve a 48 or 49 offset (and un-roadworthy wheels) will not avoid the need to roll the rear guards given the 285 tyres you are fitting. If you do not want to roll the guards and to run a 285 wide tyre which clears you will need at least a 53 offset 10 inch wheel. ( With a 275 wide tyre, a 48 offset 10 inch wheel will suffice for the tyres to clear the guards with no rolling.)
Okey dokey - well I certainly wasn't aware of this !! So can you point me to the 'regs' I need to check please Sean ? - as I have no idea what regs you are referring to :help:
Can you let me know why you believe this to be the case Sean. Is this from personal experience ??? Only reason I ask is that I'm reading various other threads on various other forums which seem to conflict with what you're telling me about the offset needed for a 285 on a 10' rim without guard rolling so I'm finding it very confusing on who and what to believe atm. It's really doing my head in tbh...
Thanks for that Vongy and yeah I'd read that thread a while ago. He did indeed have a set of Lenso D1R's on his SSV but he'd previously rolled his guards and done the bumper bracket and screw relocation mod prior to him fitting them.
Sadly :cry: due to current demanding work pressures and the stupidly long hours I'm doing - I simply haven't had time to sort anything out. BUT to complicate things a bit further I've decided that with nice new rims the brakes need some jazzing up and so I have a plan for them and I'm thinking it would be a good idea to get them sorted and done BEFORE I get the new wheels fitted. That way once they go on they stay on and there will be less chances of any accidental scrapes or scratches to them by brake mechanics pulling the wheels on and off or whatever. So they're still sitting in their boxes waiting in my garage along with 4 brand new Falken 452's, new wheel nuts and some snazzy centre caps I had custom made. :s I swear I sometimes hear them calling out to me saying 'help get us out of here we just want to roll...' Hopefully have some time soon to sort out my brakes and then get my wheels on. :beer chug: cheers mate
wow i dont know how you can handle that.. if i had my new wheels sitting there, i couldnt wait to get them on...
Yeah I know - patience is a virtue and all that but it really has been a case of no choice tbh. Just been flat out and there's no let up in sight for a few weeks yet unfortunately. No dramas though it's paying the bills and allowing me to indulge in my little mod projects, of which I've got a number in the pipeline atm like my new wheels but a few others sitting in my garage waiting to be started, a few waiting to be finished and a few other ideas I'm tossing around. As mentioned in my previous post, I'd also been thinking about jazzing up the brakes first though. Well timing is everything because only this afternoon I got word that my custom jazz up my brakes mod idea looks like it's a goer. I won't spill the full details just yet in case it all fizzes out for some reason, although I don't think it will based on the written confirmation I got today, but anyway I had a bit of an idea and the end result is it seems I've been able to talk a brake company into making me a brand new set of calipers, and by that I mean a full vehicle set of fronts and rears, all supplied factory painted in Holden colour coded paint to match my Atomic Green SS and with the mounting brackets done in gloss black. They confirmed this afternoon that they're happy to go ahead and make them for me and they reckon they'll be ready in 3 or 4 weeks. So I'm definitely going to hold off getting my new wheels fitted until they arrive and I've had them and new rotors fitted first. Just gotta buy my new slotted/grooved rotors, oh and stainless braided lines, in between time and I'll be all set to go. I've got another post on here asking about a company in Melbourne who does 12 grooved/slotted VE rotors but I haven't had any replies at all, so not sure what I'm doing rotor wise yet. The promising news for all out there in JC land though is that it seems they liked my idea about making and supplying calipers sets pre painted in Holden factory coded colours because they've decided to make up 6 full sets in total - as a bit of a sales experiment I expect. So along with the set in Atomic Green they're making for me they're doing one more set in Atomic, 2 sets in Voodoo Blue and 2 sets in Ignition Orange all with the mounting brackets in black which they're going to sell (to see if there's a market for them I imagine). How good is that :smoking:
