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Thedriftbadger
08-20-2013, 06:44 PM
I've got a set of enkei hurricanes on the way from japan, only problem is they are 6 lug so i need them filled and drilled to 4x114.3 Anyone know a good place to do this?
blackrms13
08-20-2013, 11:31 PM
if it's 6 lug, most likely it'll have a huge center bore. besides...it's totally unsafe to do such things...
mechanicalmoron
08-20-2013, 11:58 PM
Sounds pretty stupid.

Re-drilling hubs for 5x114.3 is one thing, and seems fine to me. Re-drilling wheels to some random huge pattern , that will obviously be weakened (being aluminium, which is NOT the same as steel at all, in how it behaves, and how easy it is to stress/damage), for 4 lug?

Don't even try.

But maybe I'm stupid, and there's a whole industry of shops doing this, or something.... as you seem to think. It just seems realllllly stupid.
Thedriftbadger
08-21-2013, 01:49 PM
Yea i cancelled my order on them. I'm gonna look for some in the right bolt pattern. These were really cheap though so i figured i'd see about getting them redrilled, but i'd rather pay a little extra to get the right parts. Thanks for the responses though
blackrms13
08-21-2013, 02:32 PM
insert the obligatory "Florida post"
g35gabby
08-21-2013, 02:37 PM
insert the obligatory "Florida post"

:o

lol. Sounds like a mess. "bent rim repair corp" does it in orlando, but I don't think they are even shady enough to try something that crazy.
Thedriftbadger
08-21-2013, 04:32 PM
It's not crazy. I've seen wheels with it done and it looks legit. I would be worried about what the first reply said about the big center hole and the lug holes would probably be really close to the center. I really wouldn't worry about the redrilling itself since they're just for street driving.
blackrms13
08-21-2013, 04:40 PM
if you've seen it done, why don't you go back to the same place
Thedriftbadger
08-21-2013, 04:48 PM
if you've seen it done, why don't you go back to the same place

I didn't see the actual process lol, i saw some that had been redrilled and they looked fine.
Thedriftbadger
08-21-2013, 04:49 PM
Anyway i'm not doing it so it doesn't matter
blackrms13
08-21-2013, 05:20 PM
how do you know they are redrilled?

i sell wheels to ppl who redrill between 5x112/115/114.3/120/120.65 etc all the time, but these are all millimeter of difference...