Wow! too.  I'm impressed.

Very nice

Great work BB.  I have been searching for someone to reduce the diameter of my stock wheel.  I does not look like you went as far as could be done but I would like to know how you cut out the rim and kept the circular integrity?  The metal in that rim is very stout.
 

Thanks for the kind words, guys.

Dave:  Good to hear from you.  Hope all is well up there.  Say Hi to Maria, hope we get to see you guys at a bash again some day.

Boom:  I went about as far as I thought was possible and still keep the stock tri-bar horn button.  After removing the rim I cut 3 1/4" from the steel (looking for just under 15" dia.) and used two cabinet clamps to pull it back together and hold it mostly round.  It's just slightly egged but not enough that anyone, including me, is going to notice.  After it was welded I over-sprung it against the egg to get it more round.  I had considered making a form but without heat it would still have wanted to go egg.  In the end I just used the clamps and it worked okay.

BB
 

MAW wrote:

Very nice work, looks good BB, butt(TS) I'm more amazed at all of the ciphering you are doing on those sheets under the pic of the wheel with the parts cut out., I got a headache just looking at that.

I didn't even notice that, Mike.  I'm laying out an EFI front harness for a friend's 64 Falcon.  I must have taken that pic with the wheel setting on my wiring bench.  LOL.

BB
 

BB, how much did you trim off the spokes?  What kind of epoxy did you use and why the yellow tape? on the cut parts of the plastic?

Kstang; Wheel Skins make a very nice product...custom to the sizes you tell them.  They don't give anything away but the product is nice.

Boom;  It was right near a half inch.  I positioned the rim on the spokes after I reduced the dia.  The tape was just me marking where to cut the plastic with a hacksaw blade.  I used a small cut-off wheel and a utility knife for the longitudinal cuts.  The epoxy is P-7, easy to work good body.  Use a wet finger to smooth it after application (learned that near the end). 

RPM;  Thanks for the kind words Bob.  Don't think I want to go into the Steering Wheel bidness right now butt, my cousin has done a dozen or more and would probably quote a price if someone is interested.  It's really not all that hard, just takes some thinkin' and time.  If I hadn't been making the changes for the 68 column it would have been much easier.

BB

Bullet Bob wrote:

    ......... my cousin has done a dozen or more and would probably quote a price if someone is interested. .........

BB, please ask him for me.  I would probably go another 1/4" on the spokes. I would not need the enlargement of the hub as I am using the stock set up.  I would be interested what he would charge just up to before the final sanding.  I could do that as well as the painting.  Especially the welding would be beyond my pay grade.  Did you recreate the finger grooves with your epoxy work?  Did you order your WheelSkin as a custom size?

I actually spoke with the manufacturer of the aftermarket wheels that you see on all the Mustang supply websites. I told him that there would probably be a considerable market for reduced diameter stock wheels.  He was not interested.
 

Very cool!  At a loss of words to say about it.  I think it awesome you took out 3.14 inches to make your new 15" pie.  

Boom;  I just called him...will PM you soon as I post this.  He has a 15" rim on the shelf that he could reduce a half inch or so and put it on the Mustang spokes.  His email is in the PM.  The finger groves  were mostly saved as I replaced the plastic rim sections that I removed.  The Wheel Skin is a custom size, they ask for the grip dia. and the outside dia. of the rim when you order.

Oz;  That's pretty funny.  I didn't even notice that all that wiring crappo what in that pic.  Only math involved in this wheel job was multiplying 3.1416 times the number of inches you want to remove from the rim diameter.  In my case I cut 3.25 and ended up with a 14.75 wheel.

Greg;  Thanks again for the nice comment.  This, to me, is the fun stuff that make goofing with these old heaps worth the time and effort.

BB

BB - very, very nice ... as your projects always seem to be.

Verrry nice work BB.