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Week in the sun this week and it might have gone to my head. I bought one of the mini comics and have been rather enchanted by the smoke grey mk1 on jap magna mk1's.

They are lovely wheels but very spendy and not the right offset for my car with a a discs. I do currently run Dunlop d1's and I wonder if the centre bore was milled down by say 1.5" and the spokes re-profiled by not much just how similar they would look.

Plenty of meat in the rims still,in the mind of me! Any one tried it? Still alive? Do D1's crack easily?

Any sage thoughts? Or cheap japs in the offset I need?

Personally, I would be VERY wary of modifying wheel as described above. You MAY end up with a wheel that is aesthetically pleasing to the eye, but one that is also structurally compromised.

In the event of something unpleasant happening, i.e. a wheel breaking & hitting someone there is no chance of your insurance company paying out & you COULD Be hit with a multi million pound law suit as well as the possibility of killing or seriously injuring someone.

I know this is only a remote possibility, but as far as I am concerned, the chance of it happening at all is enough to put me off.

Some things should not be modified. . . . . ever.

Think I'm in agreement with you in retrospect. Too much sun!

Absolutely forget it. Not trimming Dunlops, but running JAPs. On discs there will be more wheel outside of the arch than under it.

They look awesome on drums, but discs. No.

I had 2 sets of 6's. Mk1 and 2. Both 8 spokes