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These are a nice style short of the rainbow color. Can anyone tell me what size these are? Do you have to get them in the rainbow finish?
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From: oh10
They are Gram light wheels and are available in non-rainbow finish as well.
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Yeh, that style wheel would never work on our Minis. I was at the dealer on Friday and saw some new JCW R56s--those things come with 12.5" brakes and the clearance between caliper and wheel spokes was down to about 3/8"--pretty impressive for a OEM setup. That'll limit the wheel options for sure!
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Ti, steel (say CroMoly), Al--all alloys of course. For a given item (shape, size), steel weighs 1.0, Ti 0.5 and Al 0.33. So a Ti wheel would have to be about 2/3 the thickness of Al to weigh the same. Although a Ti wheel would cost a lot more than an Al one, it wouldn't offer any advantage over the Al wheel in strength or weight. I saw a set of those carbon fiber and Mg wheels on a Mosler--they aren't significantly lighter than a set of Mg wheels like those used on LM cars for example, but look cool. I can't imagine that a set of Ti wheels would look cool--especially since you can get Al wheels to look like anything these days.
In the end it's all material science. Al is the "best" material for consumer wheels, period.
In the end it's all material science. Al is the "best" material for consumer wheels, period.
My brother rode a Teledyne Titan back in the day.
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Commercial (99.2% pure) grades of titanium have ultimate tensile strength of about 63,000 psi (434 MPa), equal to that of some steel alloys, but are 45% lighter.[5] Titanium is 60% heavier than aluminium, but more than twice as strong[5] as the most commonly used 6061-T6 aluminium alloy. Certain titanium alloys (e.g., Beta C) achieve tensile strengths of over 200,000 psi (1380 MPa).[20]
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See my website for my 12.75lb "ride it every day" bike.
http://gandini.unm.edu/PGpages/Interests/bicycling.htm
Dymag CF/Mag wheels weigh about 14lbs each, cost $10,000 a set. They are free with a $330,000 Mosler.
There are a few sets of forged Al wheels that weigh a couple of lbs more and cost around $2000 a set.
Like I said, Ti is not the best material for car wheels.
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From: oh10
I love the look, DanQ
. I've been dying to get a set of panasports. I used to run the konig replica of them
I have a slice of pure Ti log sitting on my desk...it's a cylinder about 3 inches across and about the same long. It weighs several pounds... Makes a nice paperweight.
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For hemi.... I have a K20 Crower conn rod Mach V welded up as a trophy for their charity car show...much nicer than a normal trophy LOL
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I'm running pretty wide, 8" up Front & 9" in the Rear.
There's about a finger width between the back of the wheel and the inner wheel well liner.
So it really depends on the offset, running a 3 piece rim can allow a bit more if you run 2" lips, you will end up with more poke... but it's possible..
There's about a finger width between the back of the wheel and the inner wheel well liner.
So it really depends on the offset, running a 3 piece rim can allow a bit more if you run 2" lips, you will end up with more poke... but it's possible..