Rim Question:

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What are the best light-weight rims available on the market?
I've been looking at getting some good rims (and suspension components), maybe 16s or something like that.

Oh, and on the same subject, what are the lightest rims EVER made at 16"?

[89AccordNate]

3lbs, had a set for my power wheels jeep. They were plastic and coated with a layer of chrome paint.

Pretty phat, yo.

Nate.

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*sigh*

[Jims 86LXI HB]

Their are a enormious amount of rims out their. Finding the one's that are light weight is NOT easy, you have to look for them. You can use your own judgement as to what is light weight. Factory oem rims are going to be 16-18lbs. Here's what I've run into.

Construction Techniques:

Forging (including SSF which is a true forging) results in a much stronger wheel. The wheel can therefore be made lighter than a cast wheel, while still maintaining superior strength. Multi-piece forged wheels have forged centers and spun rims. Sometimes the rims are spun from forged metal, sometimes they are not. Be sure to ask the wheel manufacturer which technique they use to make their rim sections.

Casting can be done in a number of ways. The most prevalent are gravity casting (pour the metal into a mold), vacuum (counter-pressure) casting (suck the metal up into a mold) and low-pressure casting.

Relative wheel strengths are as follows: 1-piece forged, multi-piece forged, vacuum cast, low-pressure cast, gravity cast. The strengths are only relative because weight (or actual mass) affects a wheel's strength, as does the actual design. Vacuum (counter-pressure) casting is used almost exclusively by BBS for most of their wheels.


SSR competition FORGED rims 16x7 42mm offset 11 lbs $345 each
Racing Hart CP-035 FORGED 16x7 42mm offset 10.8lbs $375+!
Rota Slipstream Cast rims 16x7 45mm offset 14.5lbs $500 for 4
Rota SubZero's Cast rims 16x7 45m offset 14.5lbs $500 for 4
Konig Traffic Cast rims 16x7 40mm offset 14.2 lbs $132 each
Kosei K1 Racing Cast 16x7.5 42mm offset 15.5lbs $199 each
Mugen MF10 Forged 16x7 offset ??mm 11.0lbs $OUCH!!!
Volk TE37 Forged 16x7 offset ??m 11.2lbs $300+^
Their are more, but this is enough for now, just spent a hour putting this together.

[smufguy]

My friend from inline options offered me BBS. they are supposed to be good ones. but i dont know, all i know is I cant find BBS anywhere in that name, i heard from somewhere that they changed their name.

[Jims 86LXI HB]

Most of the BBS wheel line up are not light weight at all. Now matter what their hecka expensive, heavy or light weight. Love the way they look, cleaning them,.....NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[markmdz89hatch]

Originally posted by Jims 86LXI HB
Most of the BBS wheel line up are not light weight at all. Now matter what their hecka expensive, heavy or light weight. Love the way they look, cleaning them,.....NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

c'mon Jim you know you wanna clean this....

[DigitaLuminescence]

Thanks, Jim... that really helps out a lot! Very informative!

Sorry that you spent that amount of time because of me... maybe I'll make it up to you, sometime? I know about vehicle sound systems and stuff like that, if you need me to get some information for you. But that's really about the extent of my knowledge when it comes to cars.

Thanks again!

[AccordEpicenter]

Go Volk TE37 racing wheels. Nice nice wheels man!

[DigitaLuminescence]

Originally posted by AccordEpicenter
Go Volk TE37 racing wheels. Nice nice wheels man!

I'll check those out... haven't really look at them yet.

Thanks everyone, for helping me out with this.

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What is the site?

[WingedFire]

*Wishes he could find TE37's for cheap but doubts itll ever happen*