One day i decided that i would like to have drilled discs on my gti6 but could not warrent spending the kind of money that these go for. i know that you do get a better quality product made from better materials if you buy proper performance discs but i rarely go fast enough to need these. So purely for aesthetic reasons i thought that i could drill some standard ones!

Firstly i practiced on the shot discs that i took of the car just to make sure i could accomplish what it was that i wanted. I tried to drill all the way through but the vanes between the vented discs were pushing the drill bit off course. I then decided that as it was only to look nice through the wheel i could just dimple them with the drill to get the same efect.



This is what i settled for;














They do make a very slight 'brushing' sound which you can here with the windows down but you do not here them inside the car with the windows up. I do not get any wobble/out of balance feeling at all even from high speed braking.

I like the look of them and i am happy with the results.

I understand that people may be concerned about safety with respect to these so i accept no responsibility for any mishaps if other people try this.

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It took a while to come up with a method for measuring the correct spacing for them, but once this was established i could measure, centre punch and drill one disc in about an hour. It's important that you get the dimples to show through the wheels and not get obscured by the spokes. Using a wheel bolt hole in the disc as a reference point, you can calculate this.

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So are you going to take responsibility for you're own accident when the discs crack and send you careering into some poor innocent bas**rd with no brakes?

You 'tard.

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205Parts@uk7.net

I only drive the car on my own private runway.

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you realise that discs drilled from the factory are prone to cracking around the holes, right? That's disks drilled from the factory that have to meet certain standards, machined very accurately and using a constant stream of coolant to minimise heat stressing the material.

I'd keep a mate on standby logged into your account here ready to delete this thread the moment they explode sending you into a school bus...

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Ph1 306 GTi 6 | RX8 231 S1 | YBR 125 Cafe Racer | MT-03 660

Although I disagree with your principle of asthetics over performance and I feel your method is somewhat unusuall I don't see a problem with Drilling disks.
I know someone who has been doing a similar thing for some years now. He however drills between the vanes.

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FORD PUMA: the gay car that will have the 6 in the twisties.

o.m.g they look quite cool for home made ones.
hope they work lmfao

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my car's spending all my money grrrrrrrrrr

Mate if you own a runway surely you can afford to buy some decent discs?

The credit crunch is getting to me too, Im thing of re-treading my tyres using old floor mats

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Why is it that shoe repairers are so good at cutting keys? - Harry Hill.

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205Parts@uk7.net

if you own your private runway, who else is gonna see the "standard" disks? lol

just ruined a good set of disks.

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Team allesclar ®

Youve now weakened a set of perfectly good disks.

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Bianca White Ph2 306 GTi-6 Sold
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07/11/08 - Pete Sims, gone but not forgotten, RIP

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Team allesclar ®

pffft, amateurs. Pogo stick for front strut FTW

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