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Originally Posted by cobra
What a great construction and car, many compliments from Switzerland.
The only thing that you need is:
Updated Magnesium Halibrand thread
a new set of Halibrand Magnesium wheels |
Thanks for the kind words.
We are currently thinking about making billet centers with bolt on shells for the wheels. The shells (some people call them hats) are VERY light. We can make th centers extremely light with CNC machining as well. We don't have to worry about the porosity problem that castings have--that's why they cast them so thick (to reduce the chance of a rim failure from a material defect).
I think those will be lighter than mag. Ultimately, I would love to have forged mag rims like they use on F1. But then again, I am not sure how pot hole friendly F1 rims are. I hear they are made so thin they only air pressure for a few laps. They don't care because they change the tires anyway. Frankly, I don't know if that is true, (it is stuck in the dark recesses of my memory) but it certainly sounds plausible considering some of the other things they do--like use wheel nuts ONCE and then throw them away!
(I know the guy who makes them and he is quite happy they throw them away!)
David
