Fellow Extreme Car Nuts:
We have had so many requests for 17 inch rims lately I looked into making them from a billet.
The price of the billet about made me pass out.
About $650 for the fronts and $850 for the rears. (That is the price of the bare block of aluminum BTW!!!)
Nevertheless, seems like we already have some takers and some who are thinking about it. I figure it will take at least 24 hours to machine a rim or about $1000/rim in machine time alone.
Man those would be some really expensive rims--but they sure would be light and nice. I bet we can reduce the weight of each rim by at least 30%
David
(Don't worry about me, I'm just sitting here thinking about all of the crazy things we could machine out of a billet.)
