Bespoke Wheel Manufacture

[Rusti Evo]

Have been searching the net for ever seeking some wheels to float my boat and found nothing.

Performance Alloys can make me a bespoke 3 piece to my design but ideally I fancy a 1 piece.

There are a couple of Japcrap designs I have the hots for but the 12.5 rears are not available. Is it possible to do a cut and shut and combine 2 say, 9inch wheels?

Anybody encountered a specialist with casting/CNC facility or any other thoughts?

[d3vine]

Forgeline makes a lightweight forge 1 piece wheel.
www.forgeline.com

HRE wheels have a large variety of stylish wheels as well.

[JoulesCanAm]

It's not that uncommon to add width in wheels. Some GT40 replica owners with the Le Mans flares find they want wider than available wheels and have had a few inches added to the width.

One such company this side of the pond is http://www.weldcraftwheels.com/

I'm guessing there must be similar service providers in Europe.

[DHGTR]

Image Wheels at Tipton used to advertise they could accomodate customers designs. I guess that would be determined by stresses etc. Give Harry a ring and see if they still do it.

Dave

[crafty]

I used Ebay specials on the Tempest and had them widened. However, the widening was done on the inside of the wheel. Im not sure if its possible to get them widened to the outside, as it would not be a good idea to grind the weld smooth. The welds are on the inside of the rears on the Tempest and are not visible.

The wheels were USD540 for the set and the widening was USD460 for 2.

Edited by crafty on Friday 23 October 01:23

[Rusti Evo]

The widening option is attractive.

Tempest looking really good!!!

[jschwartz]

If you dont like the 3 piece look, we offer Forgelines with the blind scew option.
It still gives you the ability to replace a damaged component. but the look more like a one piece.

[cymtriks]

Superlight in Gloucester used to say that they could do any design the customer wanted IIRC.

[BogBeast]

Rusti Evo said:

Tempest looking really good!!!

Reminds me why I like American Muscle cars sooo much...

[deadscoob]

cymtriks said:

Superlight in Gloucester used to say that they could do any design the customer wanted IIRC.

I wouldn't recommend Superlight for bespoke wheels.

[ROWDYRENAULT]

CCWWHEELS.COM Has built forged one peice wheels for a Ultima. Lee

[Rusti Evo]

The prices on the CCW wheels are excellent!!

[Captain Slog]

Rusti Evo said:

The prices on the CCW wheels are excellent!!

Must be a typo, when I cut n' pasted the address in my browser I got redirected to http://welcome.auttoparts.net

Steve

[Rusti Evo]

http://www.ccwheel.com/files/home.php

[Captain Slog]

Rusti Evo said:

http://www.ccwheel.com/files/home.php

Thanks Stuart, I tried a few variations of Lee's Url 'CCWWHEELS.COM'

Steve

[cymtriks]

deadscoob said:

cymtriks said:

Superlight in Gloucester used to say that they could do any design the customer wanted IIRC.

I wouldn't recommend Superlight for bespoke wheels.

Why not?

Do you have any experience of dealing with them?

I've no vested interest, just curious as to why you dismiss them.

[Slow M]

I couldn't help but chime in here just to say John @ CCWheel is great to work with. His products are wonderful as well.
Given the opportunity, I will buy wheels from him again.
B.

[deadscoob]

cymtriks said:

deadscoob said:

cymtriks said:

Superlight in Gloucester used to say that they could do any design the customer wanted IIRC.

I wouldn't recommend Superlight for bespoke wheels.

Why not?

Do you have any experience of dealing with them?

I've no vested interest, just curious as to why you dismiss them.

We used them to to make a set of bespoke wheels for our Westie with specific offsets. To do that they machined the centre (they were 3 piece) so the wheel bolts didn't seat in that, and bolted (with 4 8mm allen bolts) a spacer to the back of the wheel - the bolts were seated in this. They then powdercoated the lot so you couldn't see it. First drive the wheel fell apart, unsurprisingly.

[robm3]

Slow M said:

I couldn't help but chime in here just to say John @ CCWheel is great to work with. His products are wonderful as well.
Given the opportunity, I will buy wheels from him again.
B.

Do they have the Ultima offsets then?
I'm looking at their webpage and they have some nice designs which I think would suit the Ultima:

505a (a nod to Corvette/GM components used in Ultima's)
SP500 and SP600 look good too and if I had a red GTR I'd get them poweder coated white...

[Slow M]

robm3 said:

Do they have the Ultima offsets then?
I'm looking at their webpage and they have some nice designs which I think would suit the Ultima:

505a (a nod to Corvette/GM components used in Ultima's)
SP500 and SP600 look good too and if I had a red GTR I'd get them poweder coated white...

What sizes/offsets are you looking for?
The way he usually does his modular wheels is to manufacture the center with a back-pad that can be cut away to create specific offsets so there is quite a range of possibilities. I presume he does the same with the one piece wheels.
Click on the wheel you like in the gallery, then, in the following window, switch to SPECS/OPTIONS.
They probably have more than what is shown there.
Best to call/email.

B