Ok so a few months ago I bought some billet wheel adapters for my 4th gen 10 spokes. The inside diameter of these adapters was to small to fit over the rotor "cone," my temperary solution was to use the brake laithe at work to mill down the cone. In a week or two I will be installing a LS1 brake kit and it will come with some nice zinc coated hubs, so my question is, how would you guys suggest I bore out the adapters? I will take them to a machine shop if I must but am attempting to do it my self.

 

i'd take it to a machine shop,they will hose u but i highly doubt they would mess it up

 

Yeah, I know, I just hate to pay some one to do what I can do myself. Anybody else got a suggestion.

 

id suggest you take them to a machine shop... lol.


it shouldnt be more then a couple bucks for the guy to chuck em up in a lathe and enlarge the center.

 

Well I guess I'll ask arround at work and try to find a resonable shop. Thanx Guys.

 

Post what you find.

I've found that locally, most machine shops want to stick to normal production/engine rebuild work, and don't want to take jobs like that. The basic answer you get with something like this is that "you need to make friends with someone that works at a reasearch lab's machine shop..."

 

Great, I cant wait to be jerked around by them. I work at O'Reillys and if all else fails I can try to ship them off and see if my employment gets me a favor from our excuse for a "machine shop." But as requested I'll post my findings.

 

Another good suggestion is a local vo-tech or engineering / technology /agriculture university in your area. You just might already know someone that could help...

 

Not a bad idea. Thanks, I'll look into that idea.

 

If a local shop tried to rape you on price I could do em for ya.

I make hubs and brackets for all the brake conversions now.
We have a Mill,lathe,brake lathe,etc..

PM or e-mail me with more dteails if you want. Do you know what size you need it bored out to.

 

make your own

 

Use a cylinder hone to enlarge the hole.

I have done this on aluminum wheels that needed to be opened to clear the hub.

You can rent one from auto zone and put inon a drill motor

 

Just thought I'd let you guys know I went to a little machine shop and an hour and 20 bucks later I was ready to go.

 

thanks not many people are that considerate (sp?)