Elijah18

Any one know whats the lightest wheels you can buy for a serious 4 Fc?

stylEmon

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the BBS rims are pretty light.
I'm sure you can just go to a rim website and search for the lightest rims they have. They probably will have a match for your serious 4.

Evil Aviator

http://www.fikse.com/

Black91n/a

What size? If you go with bigger wheels then they'll weigh more. For 16"+ then Enkei RPF1's are about as light as you can get without spending a fortune.

Jager

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5Zigen FN01RC?

Stock BBS convertable wheels are light yo.

What size you looking for?

Is the car turbo or NA?

wackaloo13

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http://www.rennworx.com/
look at the dymag wheels. its a carbon fiber outer and magnesium center. some are 14lbs. im sure they are a bit expensive though.

ericgrau

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IIRC:
stock 15" wheels: 14lbs.
stock 16" BBS wheels: 11.5lbs.

BBS is super light and buying used BBS wheels is several times cheaper than buying brand new super light wheels.

MazdaMike02

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BBS rims, Motegi Racing Trak Lite, Work Meister, Volk CE28N, Volk TE37, Enkei RPF-01 all light rims...Trak Lites and Meisters are the lightest...Meisters are ugly though but the Trak lites look sweet and are light.

Black91n/a

The BBS convertible wheels are 15x6.5", they're not 16".

You should factor in the tire weight, as sometimes going to a lighter, smaller wheel can be offset by taller, heavier sidewalls. I remember looking at some 17x8.5 Enkei RPF1's at 15.5lbs with 235/40/17's and comparing them to 16x8 RPF1's at ~14.5lbs with 225/50/16's and the 16's were no lighter as a whole, and that's with narrower tires to boot.

MmSadda

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Black91, while that is true, the increase in moment of intertia for the larger wheels WOULD make a difference. Weight is not necessarily as important as how far out it is.

RETed

Wrong person to be directing that to...

Unsprung weight is unsprung weight.


-Ted

gear_grinder

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well idk what the exact weight of the s5 GTU wheels are, but there quite light. Especaily when you go from 87 Stock TII wheels to s5 GTUs, lol.

incubuseva

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Yeah, whoever was talking about getting lighter tires is right. Someone on my motorcycle forum posted up about how if you spend $$$ on CF rims, you could get the same weight savings by buying different tires. It had the math + everything. Pretty cool.

Since the tire is out farther than the rim (duh) the rotational mass would be affected more between a heavy + light tire, as opposed to rims. Unless you're going from some chromed out 56" rims (yeah.. exageration.) to 12" rims.

SpeedOfLife

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ultrataco

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ha ha

Black91n/a

Yes the same weight larger wheel will probably have a higher moment of inertia (I never said they wouldn't), but for handling it doesn't matter what size it is. The thing is most of the time we pick tires based on grip, wear, price and availability in our chosen size, weight is more a secondary concern. If you have 2 similiar tires to choose from, then by all means get the ligher one, but most of the time it'll have softer sidewalls and will compromise feel and responsiveness (Toyo T1S and T1R are notorious for that, light but mushy). As for wheels there's really only fittment, strenght, weight, cost and styling to worry about, and there's a lot more selection, so it's easier to just get a lighter wheel and pick the best performing tire that meets your criteria.

misterstyx69

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I got the BBS Vert wheels with Falken Ziex512's on..225/50/15 .they are really Nice and Light..there is a noticeable improvement in the car when I switched from Stock wheels to These wheels..the ride was alot better down Bumpy roads..like a New susupension was put in.