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Carbon Fiber Wheels - Shelby GT350R
I really wish these were ready for consumers and at a reasonable price. I'll keep dreaming I guess. Just thought I would share.
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GT350R 19x11 weighs 18lbs. BBS fi-r 19x10.5 weighs 18.15lbs. So they won't be the same weight in similar sizes. Last edited by hellrotm; 07-11-2015 at 11:48 PM.. |
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For the extra weight, a couple thousands cost savings, and the far greater neck-breaking factor, I'd still go for the FI-R's.
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07-12-2015, 05:14 AM | #9 |
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Some members can remember, HRE have already tried carbon wheels in the 2012 by opening Carbon Series with the CF2. Target market was modestly described as Ferrari, McLaren, Lamborghini etc.:
http://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/...-line-wow.html http://www.autoblog.com/2012/11/01/h.../#slide-175011 The CF2 weighed in at under 16 lbs=7kg. However it seems like this product didn't work: http://www.hrewheels.com/carbon-series/ Who knows, maybe now Ford can make it. |
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Not sure if this is related in any way but I remember reading an article that Ford was teaming up with DowAksa to develop "high volume" automotive carbon fiber. I think one of the primary goals was to make a more cost effective carbon fiber that could be used in the masses. I too am curious to see the cost of these wheels.
FORD, DOWAKSA TO JOINTLY DEVELOP CARBON FIBER FOR HIGH-VOLUME AUTOMOTIVE LIGHT-WEIGHTING APPLICATIONS |
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For me it would mostly come down to weight to cost. I also wouldn't be willing to pay thousands more to save a few pounds. Also not sure where Ford is getting this -
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Well. I would imagine if they got the manufacturing process down, the time of production for each wheel would be substantially less than that of a full forged process. Time = Money.
And, carbon fiber is incredibly strong. If I remember correctly one of the issues in the past was with the force vectors of road impacts not lining up properly and cracking the wheel. There is certainly a way to engineer your way around this, can Ford do it? Probably.
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It's the future. I'm a cyclist and folks tried to resist lighter, stronger, more customizable carbon rims for years. Now they're coming standard on many main stream road bikes and quite a few mountain bikes.
Are they indestructible? Of course not. But they certainly take more abuse than alumin(i)um rims and win just about every race now days. The same will happen for high performance cars. Ford's just on the bleeding edge here. |
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This is another posh gadget to distinguish the owner's wallet. Actually why not, wheels are beautiful and would definitely improve drive and handling. However none of the F1 cars priced like $8-9 Mln. ever had carbon wheels. The F1 teams buy wheels from companies such as OZ Racing, BBS, Enkei, Rays and Fondmetal: http://www.formula1-dictionary.net/wheels.html
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I agree the wheels live in more impact and destruction than carbon or any other part of any car. Wheels are made for it. However I am missing a link to what rips the centers out (at 200 mph, ok) and to on-board starters that I might suddenly consider to remove |
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I think those wheels are sick but the price would probably make me sick...I went by my INDY shop the other day to get a few of the OE chrome parts removed so they could use their water solution machine to turn them CF and retain the OE fitment...I may look into having them do my wheels CF as well
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