I didnt do anything but shave off some extra material from the rims....now is it possible to get ur rims machined to shave off the extra egdes like seen above?

 

im not sure who's cobalt SS this is but its sweet... I hope you dont mind me using ur picture

 

Yeah its a nice Cobalt pic but I think the wheels on it are just a photoshop.

 

lol i know that its a photoshop ...i did it ...i just want to see if it is possible to get the stock rims actually machined, and take off some material so they look like my photoshop

 

yeah he said that he photoshoped it.... maybe you didnt read it

that does looks nice but I'm guessing it would be pricey and probobly not good for the rims stability or whatver word works best there

 

oops, sorry I didnt see that.

 

now those are some kick ass rims. the ss should come standard with those.

 

I am sure you could get your rims machined to look like those, but it would probably be cheaper to just buy ones like that

 

that was my reason for asking that...the price issue. Do you really think that it would be cheaper to completely buy new rims? i thought it would be cheaper to get them cut down... the rims that i photoshopped are perfect, i just dont see the sense of buying completely new rims if you could make the best of what you got ya know?
ive heard of people doing this before, im just not too sure who i would contact or how much it costs, or anything like that.
this was just out of curiosity really, i like the stock rims just fine...also...whats up with this


^^^^^^^^^^^^ this SS right here!! whats up with these rims...they arent the stock rimsor maybe they were for the concept i duno these are what gave me the idea of choppin my rims ...just somthing that i niticed

 

The wheels of the Cobalt SS/SC as pictured at the top of the site are the pre-production wheels.

 

exactly.. here is another photo of it some dude photoshopped to be a convertible

http://www.*************/forums/showt...3&page=1&pp=10

 

I'm sure its possible, go to a machine shop and ask if they cut wheels or if they could recommend someone.

 

I'm sure those wheels are cast aluminum, so machining material away would probably also take a lot away from the structural integrity of the wheel, especially as much as you photoshopped out. Would be a lot safer, and still probably cheaper, to just get 4 new ones.

 

Heck no you can't do that!! How on earth are they going to machine that? Do you really think a machine shop is going to write a CNC program to specially remove material from your wheel?????? HECK NO!

This is a heck no, terrible idea, never do it sort of thing. It doesn't matter if the wheel is cast, forged, or machined billet. I would NEVER just start removing material. Besides trying to balance the thing, you have no idea what the new capable loads are.

 

True, I agree. Considering the forces that are put them, you don't know how they are going to react.

 

I would also not recommend it ... definitely.

 

i doubt a machine shop would do that for you. that is straight dangerous and if something happened they could get into deep stuff for doing those kids of things. it's just totally unsafe, forget about the money factor