No idea if anyones interested but heres my little project when im not spending time and money on the audi
Copied this progress from another forum. so here it is from the start as it goes along
Sooooo nearly had the car two years.
Quite frankly im sick of it and want a new car but wont happen until about next april
But then again i did initially guesstimate next summer.
Therefore instead of wasting money on polishing the ****.
I cam across this badboy
BBS GTR3 18" ET50 rim with Dunlop race tire that was raced on a porsche in Lemans and won its category, included in the sale was paperwork to prove and a pic of the Porsche it was on.
The plan is to incorporate this into a small glass table
I bought it from a very wealthy chap who buys out Motorsport teams and sells on the bits and bobs. This happened to be one of the spare wheels in a package he bought.
In his man cave he had all sorts, memorabilia, bonno's old roller, simon cowells SL55 AMG and a few escort MK1's in concourse condition.
First of all a refurb will be needed, im looking to have it back to something like this.With the help of [MENTION=16903]ultimawhistler[/MENTION]
A nice polished dish, gold face and have the drum in either black or anthra
Within the refurb I will be renewing
*The bolts. Cant decide if i want to go for chrome or gold :\
*Valve sleeve with a s****y BBS dustcap
*Replace the original decals with same OEM ones. -
Already Purchased.
*Gold BBS decal n the outter drum the drum with the help of [MENTION=38942]crazy[/MENTION]geodiegirl
*Perhaps a Porsche decal on the other side of the drum :shrug1:
The chap was a little gutted that I was planning on refurbishing it, as the rim had history and was on a good friends car.
In terms of construction of the table. I haven't got that far yet. I know if i was to just use the rim it wouldn't be very high, i have been suggested sourcing a radinox dish.
But im on a bit of a budget and im already spending a fair few £££'s on this and i'd like to keep the original main bits of the rim.
I reckon I will just raise the rim from the bottom with no adjustment and source someone locally to cut a nice side piece of glass
Although im unsure whether i should just have glass on the inner of the rim leaving the surface for beverages and snacks a lot smaller than having it sitting on top of the rim.
Love to hear your thoughts on this
So the wheel arrived with ultima whistler about a week ago
Soon as he got it there he started taking it apart.
Heres some pics.
He found this etching on the inner, which i hadnt noticed as i hadnt cleaned it up at all. Its got a name of D. STEVENS and GT3R after it.
Bolts begining to be removed
Finally the top off
Heres a quick pic of a section of the dish before and after a little polishing.
Thats it for the time being. But i believe he has located a company in Germany who sell the original gold paint for this rim, so this is being sourced