Name that wheel
Name that wheel
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From: Saint Louis, MO
Car Info: 06 Armada, 03 WRX, 05 STi(sold), 05 Vette (sold)
Looks like an ADVAN model 6.
They are pricey
http://www.gruppe-s.com/Advan/advanm6.htm
-Mike
www.axispowerracing.net
They are pricey
http://www.gruppe-s.com/Advan/advanm6.htm
-Mike
www.axispowerracing.net
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From: Saint Louis, MO
Car Info: 06 Armada, 03 WRX, 05 STi(sold), 05 Vette (sold)
Originally posted by voyager2000
wow! and this is the price for only one?
wow! and this is the price for only one?
-Mike
www.axispowerracing.net
Actually I think those are Volk F-Zero Daytona Speeds.
I think the SDRs have 7 spokes vs. 6 and don't have that inner lip with the pattern on it... cuz the SDRs are the Prodrive P1 replicas, right???
& if you want to see expensive wheels... www.HREwheels.com none of them come with tires... all prices are per wheel not a set...
I think the SDRs have 7 spokes vs. 6 and don't have that inner lip with the pattern on it... cuz the SDRs are the Prodrive P1 replicas, right???
& if you want to see expensive wheels... www.HREwheels.com none of them come with tires... all prices are per wheel not a set...
Last edited by sjt; Jan 25, 2004 at 08:44 AM.
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Originally posted by TurnWRX
one guy near us with an sti has custom magnesium wheels. Cost: $6000
one guy near us with an sti has custom magnesium wheels. Cost: $6000
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and I'm not joking about blowing up, right mielers:
Originally posted by meilers
Heh! Magnesium is NASTY STUFF!
It has a burning point of 3600 degress (F), at which point it will flash into a superhot plasma. If you try to put the fire out with water, the flame is hot enough that the magnesium liberates the oxygen from the hydrogen, and you have burning hydrogen gas as well as the chemical reaction of the magnesium oxidizing simultaneously. In other words, water on burning magnesium is like gasoline on a wood fire!
Magnesium oxide is the main ingredient in signal flares, and they will even burn underwater (as any good pyromaniac 12-year-old knows). Magnesium alloy wheels sure would be light, but I would hate to see what happened if you lost a tire completely and ended up skidding on the rim -- you could generate 3600 degrees pretty easily at highway speeds... Then FOOSH!
Heh! Magnesium is NASTY STUFF!
It has a burning point of 3600 degress (F), at which point it will flash into a superhot plasma. If you try to put the fire out with water, the flame is hot enough that the magnesium liberates the oxygen from the hydrogen, and you have burning hydrogen gas as well as the chemical reaction of the magnesium oxidizing simultaneously. In other words, water on burning magnesium is like gasoline on a wood fire!
Magnesium oxide is the main ingredient in signal flares, and they will even burn underwater (as any good pyromaniac 12-year-old knows). Magnesium alloy wheels sure would be light, but I would hate to see what happened if you lost a tire completely and ended up skidding on the rim -- you could generate 3600 degrees pretty easily at highway speeds... Then FOOSH!
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Well, as someone else in that magneisum thread pointed out, racing wheels actually use a magnesium alloy formulated to prevent that kind of combusion (nickel + aluminum alloy)...
Still, too much damn money for wheels!
Oh, and for the record: I hate everything about that ricey fast-and-furious garbage at the top of this thread, AND the wheels it drove in on.
Still, too much damn money for wheels!
Oh, and for the record: I hate everything about that ricey fast-and-furious garbage at the top of this thread, AND the wheels it drove in on.
