This can be HELL. My buddy bought his 93 RX7 in california from a MORON. When got it back up here and we started modding it, we noticed that the guy before had welded the exhaust as one piece. one whol piece after the turbos.... what a dumbass. So he had it cut apart and had flanges welded on.
My friend as well lost his wheel key. We took it to mineke (sp?) do see if they could impact the locking nuts off. No luck. Then they tried welding a regular large hex nut to the lug. No luck. They had to freakin chizel the mofo's off with thier impact gun on all four wheels and put new studs on. The wheels are a LITTLE beat up around the hole, but not nearly as bas as what was expected, you have to be pretty close to even know it. the total was $432 in labor. Good Luck man...