Rushforth Livewires, Smoked Titanium Center *PICS*

[FirstGenZq8]

We aren't being evasive about our weights, Jon was readying his car for a show all week and had already mounted tires on those wheels and shipped them to the Phillippines before he posted the pics and I'm trying to finish a bunch of design work before SEMA all while we're still trying to deliver a bunch of last minute wheel orders for SEMA cars so getting every design, width and diameter weighed before mounting, balancing, and shipping is pretty far down this month's priority list.

We know all about unsprung weight and how important it is to performance minded people but like Turbo67 said, there's going to be discrepancies between widths, diameters, designs and even how much mounting pad is required for different brake clearance options which we tailor for each client's needs to minimize weight and maximize wheel lip and barely being a one year old company, we haven't even made every design in each diameter much less each width so relax and put away the scale and realize that we are using aerospace grade 6061-T6 aluminum forgings and hoops not castings so nothing we make is going to be "overweight" or easily damaged. Things change when you start talking about super expensive and fragile racing wheels where the backs of spokes and mounting pads are hollowed out and hoops are thinner aluminum as well as there being a reverse rule for cheap cast wheels.

thank you for replying. i appreciate everything you said above.

A good rule of thumb for most quality 2 piece aluminum wheels is a little more than a pound per inch of diameter on a 10" wheel if the design has decent size windows.

that's why actual weights are optimum. i don't want to go by "rules of thumb" anymore.

We're concerned about weight too and will start compiling a database but it's going to take some time.

since you use aerospace grade 6061-T6 aluminum forgings and 6061-T6 aluminum hoops i really look forward to seeing some of your company's wheel weights.

might i suggest buying a nice digital scale that'll give you weight in lbs and kg. also, take pics of the wheels on the scale. whenever a new wheel is finished up, put it on the scale, snap a pic, mount a tire (or not), and ship it out.

[rsk68]

When is the owner of these wheels going to post some pictures of his car?