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LowBuckX

03-13-2009, 11:45 PM

I put the Jimmy Shine to them Love meguires hot rims polish
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif (http://img25.imageshack.us/my.php?image=capshine.jpg)

spun up some center caps on the CNC Im not a big fan of the stockers so I made these bullet looking ones... They are not polished yet.

Which would you use.

LBX made bullet
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif (http://img21.imageshack.us/my.php?image=centercap1.jpg)

Or the stockers
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif (http://img21.imageshack.us/my.php?image=centercap2.jpg)

And yes in true LBX fashion I used square stock I got at the recyclers...lol
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif (http://img21.imageshack.us/my.php?image=centercappoc.jpg)

zbugger

03-14-2009, 12:28 AM

Dude, the bullets just look better. Just so long as they fit over the spindle cap up front, I don't see any reason for even questioning it. I say do it.

tony byram

03-14-2009, 01:13 AM

^ x2

BMF Machine

03-14-2009, 01:21 AM

NicE WorK [email protected]

Yelcamino

03-14-2009, 01:32 AM

By all means, use the bullets! The stock ones look like they're for a truck.

neki67

03-14-2009, 02:56 AM

Bullets!

Oh and BTW; my love for the LBX style is growing by the day! Keep it up.

Topless69

03-14-2009, 04:30 AM

Bbbbbullets....!!!

vanzuuk1

03-14-2009, 05:34 AM

Bub seems to like them...so do I

funbnme

03-14-2009, 05:50 AM

They look nice, but if you rounded off the top just a bit, they'd really fit the wheel. It would look more like the profile of the holes in the wheel.

Way better than the stock ones...they don't really fit the look of the wheel at all.

77thor

03-14-2009, 05:57 AM

I like the bullets. they're different.

Mr.VENGEANCE

03-14-2009, 05:59 AM

bullets baby...

but im biased... see my old 96 Gti in sig.. from 03

BMF Machine

03-14-2009, 09:24 AM

That GtI is very sharP Mr.V! I had a 92 GTI in 95. Recarro'S, BBS, and a 1.8 litre that would never scream for mercy! I loved that little car!

Kenova

03-14-2009, 09:42 AM

They look nice, but if you rounded off the top just a bit, they'd really fit the wheel. It would look more like the profile of the holes in the wheel.
I agree, a slight radius on the tip and they would be perfect.
I guess this means you found a way to stuff a square peg into a round hole lol.

Ken

Ralph LoGrasso

03-14-2009, 12:54 PM

Bullets, definitely. They look great.

BMF Machine

03-14-2009, 01:30 PM

Screw the radius,LMAO! :idea: The sharp ones LooK so MaD MaX'y!

prestons7dss

03-14-2009, 04:02 PM

The bullets make the stock caps look like garbage!
Nice work.

icebird84

03-14-2009, 04:13 PM

The bullets make the stock caps look like garbage!
Nice work.

indeed I vote LBX bullets

Carver67

03-14-2009, 04:44 PM

Love the bullets without radius.

MrQuick

03-14-2009, 06:10 PM

can you make hollow points? Looks great but certainly not low buck. Great job. Holy caw...Ralph is back!?!?! LOL

BIGX69

03-14-2009, 06:29 PM

LBX:cheers:

JV69z/28

03-14-2009, 07:58 PM

bullets

LowBuckX

03-14-2009, 08:40 PM

Thanks everyone.

can you make hollow points? Looks great but certainly not low buck. Great job. Holy caw...Ralph is back!?!?! LOL

Not lowbuck how? LowBuck X (me) made them with $12 worth of recycle yard finds. I wrote the program I made the fixture to hold the square stock. Yes its not realisticly repeatable by everyone but then it wouldnt be cool...

zbugger

03-14-2009, 08:59 PM

Ummm..... I think he meant it doesn't look like it's low buck. Looks better than low buck. Nobody will believe what it cost to make them.

BMF Machine

03-15-2009, 06:59 AM

Thanks everyone.

Yes its not realisticly repeatable by everyone but then it wouldnt be cool...

Never have I read a TrueR statement.

They are very CooL+you are getting MaD complimentS to boot.

Again, I say,:lurk: NicE WorK!

monza

03-15-2009, 07:08 AM

LowBuckX

03-15-2009, 07:43 AM

Ummm..... I think he meant it doesn't look like it's low buck. Looks better than low buck. Nobody will believe what it cost to make them.
I could have mis read. I didnt take it in a bad way just confused a bit by the wording..

b-man

03-15-2009, 09:09 AM

The new caps don't match the style of the wheel in my opinion. The originals are not really too attractive, I can see why you made your own.

I'd want a set that were made to be as short as possible, with a flat area at the top that's about 1.25" to 1.50" in diameter but using about the same approach that you started with.

Nice job on the caps, the style is just too pointy.

They would look right on an old hot rod or a custom, just not what I'd want on a Pro-Touring car.

joeelco72

03-15-2009, 07:00 PM

Bullets for sure...not even close. Nice skills!

Damn True

03-15-2009, 08:29 PM

Better than stock, but IMO they don't fit the wheel. I'm with B-man above.

LowBuckX

03-15-2009, 08:46 PM

Better than stock, but IMO they don't fit the wheel. I'm with B-man above.

They fit perfectly I measured my self... LOL J/K I respect your opinion.

Damn True

03-15-2009, 08:51 PM

LOL

You know the hub centers on a NASCAR hub have that almost cylindrical form with the corners radiused a bit?

I'm thinking something a bit like that might look better.

This one is a little too conical. But if that flat were 2/3 or so of the dia?

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/03/MIS20GFS20Wheel20Lugs2001-1.jpg

monza

03-15-2009, 09:32 PM

Damn True

03-16-2009, 08:53 AM

LOL, no.

LowBuckX

03-17-2009, 11:22 PM

Added a pic to the first post after polish

Munster

03-23-2009, 05:55 PM

Looks like there 'number one with a bullit'.....lol