Carbon Fiber & Magnesium wheels - 8.5 lbs @ 18x10.5
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Carbon Fiber & Magnesium wheels - 8.5 lbs @ 18x10.5
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Originally Posted by SkEltAh
Pretty interesting.. but there has to be some downside to them. Or, every F1 team would have carbon fiber wheels.
This has probably been around.
ARTICLE 12: WHEELS AND TYRES
12.3 Wheel material:
All wheels must be made from an homogeneous metallic material.
http://www.formula1.com/insight/rule...gs/14/498.html
hit the regulations in detail link for technical breakdown
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From: Pulling you over
Originally Posted by incubuseva
the constant bumps on the road would make the cf + resin come apart...
It passed all of the D.O.T. testing if you didn't care to read farther down in the post.
they have passed every D.O.T. test including
(a) Radial Fatigue Standard test is 2.5 million cycles ours passed 5 million
(b) Cornering Fatigue 1.2 million cycles
(c) Radial impact testing this is the one that everyone worries about.. our wheel exceeded the imapct test by 60KG which has never been done before.
(d) was a repeat of A, B, C with low profile tire... this test not required by JWL or BSAU
(e) additional impact on unsupported inner flange without tire ( no wheel has ever passed this before our wheel)
(f) CASS test enviormental chamber designed to add age to the wheel
(g) repaet A, B, C on wheel post CASS test
(a) Radial Fatigue Standard test is 2.5 million cycles ours passed 5 million
(b) Cornering Fatigue 1.2 million cycles
(c) Radial impact testing this is the one that everyone worries about.. our wheel exceeded the imapct test by 60KG which has never been done before.
(d) was a repeat of A, B, C with low profile tire... this test not required by JWL or BSAU
(e) additional impact on unsupported inner flange without tire ( no wheel has ever passed this before our wheel)
(f) CASS test enviormental chamber designed to add age to the wheel
(g) repaet A, B, C on wheel post CASS test
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They were listed as $1,500 per wheel in the Popular Hot Rodding coverage, and a link was given to their... non-existent... web site. 
http://www.autovelocity.com/
http://www.autovelocity.com/
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Originally Posted by jimlab
They were listed as $1,500 per wheel in the Popular Hot Rodding coverage, and a link was given to their... non-existent... web site.
http://www.autovelocity.com/
http://www.autovelocity.com/
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Originally Posted by SkEltAh
Pretty interesting.. but there has to be some downside to them. Or, every F1 team would have carbon fiber wheels.
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From: Dallas
Originally Posted by maxcooper
I've seen at least a few Formula SAE cars running carbon fiber wheels over the years. Someone mentioned one of the teams that had them in that thread.
-Max
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Wheels!
http://maepro.uta.edu/fsae/02.html
Last edited by DamonB; Feb 27, 2005 at 05:50 AM.
