so guys... an update on whats going on...
my cars back in my driving hands from 3pm tomorrow :) the panel beaters still got a couple of things to do but he let me have the car til he gets it in since i'm such a nice bloke lol :P
anyways, i got my rim back from the polishing and repair place in coburg... looks alright form the outside, smoothed it out very well and built it up with aluminum and sanded it down.
a few pics...
except one problem... measured outer edge to the inner edge of rim
undamaged part of the rim (for clarity its 190mm)
repaired part of the rim (for clarity its 188mm)
so its 2mm out... opinions guys? the rim repair place said that if he rolled it anymore, he'd risk cracking the rim itself. he said it will live on the rears fine. i whacked it on the balancer at the tyre guys place (near home) and he said there isn't much difference from last time. but he also said that will balance out and be fine in the rears also. i just don't want my safety to be comprised on the track with speeds of ~160 km/hr... i stressed it to him and he said it will be fine. 26 yrs in the trade and he never had a problem with repairing rims. he said to me that he'd seen much much worse and he still repaired them OK.
Another thing, i got my OCV strainers for the VVT and VVTL valves :)
sexy time is coming and hopefully this fixes my 7.8k limo problem ;)
Kenshin out!