Lighter wheels = faster car.
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Yeah, have to get the wheels rotating before anything else can move.
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The link is basically about drag racing.
It means the base Boxster with 16-in wheels is faster than those with the 17-in option. |
While generally true, the referenced story is an extreme example where the weight difference between the aluminum and carbon fiber wheel was 15lbs front and 14lbs rear.
Point #1: The aluminum wheels in the story weight 60lbs! For reference, 17" Boxster wheels weigh 18lbs front and 21lbs rear. Point #2: Starting with 18lbs front and 21lbs rear, Boxster owners will never find a wheel that is 14-15 lbs lighter! Point #3: 17" Boxster wheels are already more than 2x lighter than the carbon fiber wheels (45-46lbs) in the story! |
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Wheel fan here (huge fan). Can someone copy the article and paste it on this thread please, in text format is fine. That's be cool, tia
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So true about shedding rotational mass weight. I came from the 350z world where I went from 25 lb-18s down to 18lb -18s from Rays Volks and the car was totally transformed. Lighter on its feet, it danced around like a Gazelle compared to the old pig with Oem wheels. Another point to keep in mind - all tires are not equal in weight. When I made the change I found that Potenza 040 were 2 lbs heavier than the Hankook Evo-12 in same size. Naturally I went with Evos, little sacrifice in performance but overall it freed up some few ponies that were very noticeable according to my Butt Dyno!
I love my Boxster and would love to enhance the asthetics with 18s but I just can't get myself to do it cause of this. I'm running OEM 17s. Once you get used to the HP you have, it's hard to give it up for looks. |
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Changing my wheels soon, well on the look-up for some anyway. Current ones just don't look new anymore. Wheels are likes shoes here ;) Gathering as much info as I can about CF wheels these days, we have a guy here in SH who manufacture those for sport/super cars. So far he successfully copied the popular ones; 5-spokes Ferrari and Lambo wheels, BBS, some ADVs, etc. 6kgs wheels (12lbs?) :cool: Now 8 months waiting list and growing so I need to get ready soon if I want to shoe-up the already mighty fast 2.5 roadster with these babes :/ |
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^ I learn from other foreigners' one-time mistake lolll Safer to stick to the <$100 little car 'gadgets' ;) |
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Lighter wheels = faster car.
Is it just me, or would it have made more sense to switch the wheels from one Mustang to the other to test with all else being equal? Or is it my imagination telling me that suspension tune can affect acceleration times (fractionally).
Oh, that's exactly what they did! [emoji23] |
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