There's plenty of cheap steel wheels with good offsets but in the wrong stud pattern, is it possible redrill them? I assume they come blank from the factory and are drilled after being pressed, so could maybe be drilled again.
not sure if they have a flat face where they mount to the hub like alloys or are located otherwise.

As a rule. No. The wheel pattern is pressed into the rim as you will notice behind the wheel stud hole. Redrilling steel standard rims is a dangerous idea.

2nd that

ahh damn. i found some pretty interesting stuff about cutting off the barrel and welding in a new inner. anyone do that sort of thing in australia?
http://retrorides.proboards.com/index ... ction=print&thread=123002

I would say a decent machine shop could definitely do that Finn.

A few people get their stockies widened (banding)- but it isn't the cheapest job.

are the black wheels in the photo sorta what your after? you can buy them here in aus in dato stud pattern

sweet. yeah it looks like you can reverse them easy enough (at home even)

There's a place in Melbourne that make custom wheels or try gecko

Where's the link dd, that's just google home page