wheel softness

Chris Covington malth at umich.edu
Wed Nov 29 10:33:14 EST 2000


I think a better way to correlate a cause/effect relationship between
wheels and softness is to determine whether or not the wheel is forged,
regardless of brand.  Forged wheels will be much harder: less likely to 
bend or get out of round, and cast will be softer and more likely.  I
think the majority of BBS wheels are forged (the 91 200q20v stock BBS
rims) and my 3 piece BBS RF rims are examples.  But so are other wheels,
like some Speedlines such as on the S4 before the Avus-styled cast
S6 rims came about.  

So it's Cast vs. Forged.  I don't see how the "brand" matters
unless a certain brand uses exclusively forged rims (HRE?).

'91 2cq




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