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PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 10:27 pm    Post subject: Aluminum Wide Five Wheels Reply with quote

I just saw an ad for aluminum wide 5's that are lighter than stock. Laughing

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2076832

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I'm a big fan of minimizing un-sprung mass, so I looked into light weight wheels a few years ago. The only one's I liked didn't shave off much weight and were hideously expensive.

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Does anyone know anything about the aluminum wheels offered by Car Craft? How's the fit and finish? How much do they weigh?

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 11:15 pm    Post subject: Re: Aluminum Wide Five Wheels Reply with quote

I know that when I took the steel wheels off my 92 XJ and weighed them.. they were 25 lbs each.. the new/used aluminum wheels i got weighed little over 5 lbs.. i noticed a HUGE difference in breaking and acceleration. felt like I added 20 horses.. lol
Anyway .. so on a vw with so little power to start with.. if you could shave 5 - 10 lbs each wheel.. it would be nice I bet..
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 11:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Aluminum Wide Five Wheels Reply with quote

I would be estatic to shave of 5 lbs. from each wheel!

I'm currently running 20 year old Mangles. I believe they weigh 15 lbs.

Stock wheels weigh 13 lbs.

If you go here, https://porsche356registry.org/article/161, you'll see that it's very hard to get below 10 lbs and still have a stock looking wheel.

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