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taken from the ALSC forums. half way down page theres a skyline thats i need of... a wheel alignment atleast

http://soarercentral.com/sc-forum/messages/292/76703.html?1150972841

like people say when buying wheels. cheap, light, strong choose any two, guessing he went the first two

for the lazy



ouchy..

That would have been a moment
No Cheep wheels for me

They look very thin don't they I guess he spent too much time at the veilside shop and not enough time at the enkei shop......

looks like he's running Azenis RT 215's at the front.....some crappy stuff at the back.....my guess....drifting.

The problem is do you spend $500 each for good wheels or $500 for a set...the Skyline is a big heavy thing so I guess you need to be a lot more carefull with wheel choice...not such a big thing with light cars.

Enkei, BBS, OZ, Speedline are the only aftermarket wheels i would be keen on picking up.... Buckled rims suck

Rob E wrote:Enkei, BBS, OZ, Speedline are the only aftermarket wheels i would be keen on picking up

Ive had to re-round my BBS rims twice per wheel and at around $100 a re-round its not cheap ($800)

randymx5 wrote:

Rob E wrote:Enkei, BBS, OZ, Speedline are the only aftermarket wheels i would be keen on picking up

Ive had to re-round my BBS rims twice per wheel and at around $100 a re-round its not cheap ($800)

what are you doing in your 5 randy!?

i think going off at speed and hitting something like a gutter hard would out of round most light rims but this guy looks like his car just had too big a bum for those tiny shoes.

Judging by the Skyline driver's attire, maybe it was some kind of motorcross jump-type stunt gone wrong?

BTW I'm glad I've got JDM wheels....Advans and Watanabes...

randy is hardcore & one of the Dukes of Hazzard

It wouldn't surprise me if those wheels were originally the wrong offset, and he machined down the inside of the centre to bring the wheels closer to the body, hence the thin metal around the centre of the wheels.


Many, many years ago when I was a kid, a was showing off his hot Ford Customline (remember those?) and reved it up and dumped the clutch.
Spun the centres right out of his back wheels which were a brand called Road Knight, which had steel rims and a cast alloy centre.

Not to be a pain in the ass, but if he machined down the center to achieve his offset, wouldnt the wheel have failed at the nuts and not the spokes?

My guess is a nice sideways drift dropping the rear end off the track into some soft soil, momentum did the rest.

On an aside, has anyone ever pondered about the difficulties in designing a rim? There are some serious forces going through these things, with combinations of centrifugal and lateral stresses getting transfered across a relatively small area in the spokes...

sirbob wrote:On an aside, has anyone ever pondered about the difficulties in designing a rim? There are some serious forces going through these things, with combinations of centrifugal and lateral stresses getting transfered across a relatively small area in the spokes...

Looks like somebody has.

sirbob wrote:Not to be a pain in the ass, but if he machined down the center to achieve his offset, wouldnt the wheel have failed at the nuts and not the spokes?

My guess is a nice sideways drift dropping the rear end off the track into some soft soil, momentum did the rest.

the wheel is bent up in away that suggests other things...if it were busted from an actual load at the base of the rim it would of been rammed under the car you'd think..
if you machine down the centres it may still break there, he may of thinned out the corner too much.. all we can do is speculate and learn from his mistake

cheap wheels hard driving = no no