Which alloys to go for!!

[robcool]

hey people

I am having a little bit of trouble deciding which alloys to put on my red LCR! after having a little slide on the snow ther other week i damage the standard alloys so time to get new ones.
I have been looking about now for afew days and i am just finding more and more nice wheels that i like the look of however will suit the car.

So could you guys give me a little help deciding which one-

1st BBS ch's which i hear loads of people have.

2nd ADVANTI RACING LIGHTWEIGHT black with a red lip. ebay item number: 130354216447

3rd JADE R ALLOY (black or silver) http://www.alloywheels.com/product.asp?P_ID=2420

These are just a few at the moment the set that i am liking the most at the moment are the 3rd set jade r's but nor shore if i should go for silver or black?

What do you people think? has anyone got these on there car's?

cheer

rob

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

I think the Jade R's would look really smart, I changed mine last week and it was between the Jade R's and the ProRace 1.2's I only went for the ProRace because of the weight but I reckon the Jades would look really smart

I'd go black.

 

[vee_dub_modder]

CH's look the nuts to be honest... it all depends on what your looking for though. just looks then the world is your oyster i guess... if its performance then lighter is better??

not sure how light those wheels are but they come with extra load van tyres for a vito van lol.

I went for some OZ ultra leggra's as they are light and the best i could afford. i'm not sure how light the ch's are but if i was going for looks i'd defo heve them!

here's a few pics of mine in standard guise and now repainted

 

[robcool]

yeh the OZ ultra leggra i did looked at and liked them too it hard realy, i didn't realy think about how heavy they are but i will have a look now, howvever i don't know the weight of the standard lcr wheels

 

[D.K]

Compomotive CXT
http://www.comp.co.uk/wheels/popup.asp?wheel=36

 

[vee_dub_modder]

somthing like 10.5kg each i thing (LCR 18's) 8.4 for the OZ's

 

[robcool]

Big!! different then do you notice any difference in it though? i am just tring to find the weight now of the jade-r as i think i will get them, but the cxt are nice.

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

a 8x18 Prorace is only 9kg

 

[robcool]

when you was looking between the S Jade-r and the ProRace 1.2's did you manage to find the weight of the Jade-R's??

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

when you was looking between the S Jade-r and the ProRace 1.2's did you manage to find the weight of the Jade-R's??

I don't know mate but there not light like the ProRaces

 

[robcool]

cheers mate i got bored of looking for the weight an d i just kept coming across more nice alloys so think i will just get the Jade-r, will just have to make shore they go over the bembo brakes.

 

[SalSheikh]

jade-r gets my vote, nice and simple design and easy to clean!

 

[vee_dub_modder]

Big!! different then do you notice any difference in it though? i am just tring to find the weight now of the jade-r as i think i will get them, but the cxt are nice.

yep... its unsprung rotational mass too... lighter wheels = better braking, better steering turn in, better acceleration and less torque required to turn them and as an added bonus lower fuel consumption...

if you have a 40kg unsprung weight and you hit a bump with a force of 4G then that adds up to a 160kg load on the shocks/springs.

So basicly lighter is better... this also includes brakes... well anything not "sprung" by the suspension. unspring weight is worth around 6 times the weight removed from sprung weight

so removing 2kg from each corner = unsprung removed 8kg

8kg x6 (worth 6x the ammount) = 48kg equivilent in unspring -- crazy eh!

Hope that helps in wour choice... also dont get too big a rim... thats another science but it'll be arround 7-8% increase in the torque required to rotate the wheel.

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

My new wheels are approx 30kg lighter than my old reps and I can feel the difference.

 

[OFI]

yep... its unsprung rotational mass too... lighter wheels = better braking, better steering turn in, better acceleration and less torque required to turn them and as an added bonus lower fuel consumption...

if you have a 40kg unsprung weight and you hit a bump with a force of 4G then that adds up to a 160kg load on the shocks/springs.

So basicly lighter is better... this also includes brakes... well anything not "sprung" by the suspension. unspring weight is worth around 6 times the weight removed from sprung weight

so removing 2kg from each corner = unsprung removed 8kg

8kg x6 (worth 6x the ammount) = 48kg equivilent in unspring -- crazy eh!

Hope that helps in wour choice... also dont get too big a rim... thats another science but it'll be arround 7-8% increase in the torque required to rotate the wheel.

Interesting post thanks

 

[robcool]

yeh cheers for that post does make me think about it more. but doesn't helping the process of selecting some alloys for my lcr! lol

 

[wayne lcr]

stop it with the bloody wheels i want sum new 1s now

 

[vee_dub_modder]

http://www.rarerims.co.uk/virtual/
Try that -- upload a pic from the side and try different rims "virtually"

 

[wayne lcr]

http://www.rarerims.co.uk/virtual/
Try that -- upload a pic from the side and try different rims "virtually"

nice 1 vee thats me for rest of the nite

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

I like that site 20's anyone?