I whipped up a wheel in SolidWorks today - It's about 18-19" in diameter (19.xxx to the outside of the lip). Thought some of you might enjoy it.

 

Another view!

 

One more...

 

Front shot

 

front shot

 

estimated weight in aluminum is 31lbs (whoops! i'll have to play around with it some more ), and the max side loading is ~4.7g's (not enough -- needs work)

estimated weight in magnesium is 19.75lbs (now we're talkin'!) and the max side loading is ~11.5g's (that should be fine)

Interesting
-Manolis

 

Thats crazy.. Cool shi*.

 

fix the weight and i will test them for you

 

little more deep dish action would be nice but that is some cool ****

 

not a bad thing but it looks like the Enkei rc5 specs


me im more of a prf1 guy.

 

Wow those enkei's are similar - surprising, because I just did that 'free hand' Too bad they don't come in the right bolt circle.

Here's another shot of the wheel with a few little details changed. It's about 30% stronger and 1lb heavier. Now to make the spokes hollow

 

 

 

sweet...i like yours a lot more then the rc5's.....i cant wait to see it when you are totaly done and photo shop it on some 7's

 

That is bad *** dude!

 

very classic, nice work.

 

I made a slightly different design today. This model allows me to set the offset, change the radius (curvature) of the spokes, change the diameter, and change the depth of the lip. Weight for the wheel (17x9.5) is about 17.5lbs. If anybody knows how to use FEA / help me calculate whether or not it'll fall apart, let me know . Let me know what you think

 

Here's the backside of the wheel, showing some of the reliefs i put in there (they drop weight about 3 lbs). I got another 3 lbs off by cutting out a some of the rim where the spoke meets up with it.

 

rim relief

 

Make the whole thing out of tungsten and call it a day.

 

i once made some rims myself, check em out



copies of axiss se7en 3 piece

 

hey what program are you using to make your desiens?

 

Hey M5150 - what program did you use to render that -- looks great!

moprblms - I used SolidWorks2003 for the drawings

 

did you use this same program to calculate the weight, strength etc?

 

Yep! Solidworks lets you input a density for the material you're using, and calculates weight off of that. The strength analysis program that solidworks uses isn't ver good though -- I'm going to have a friend run some numbers with another program to see what it comes up with.

As a bit of a side note, the wheels would be about 12.5 lbs (for a 17x9.5" wheel!) if made out of magnesium, and they'd be stronger too

-Manolis