Comments on: Weds Sport Full Carbon Fiber Wheel

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:44:28 +0000

I would suggest that they were crap to start with if rain affected them. Unless your car was underwater for the week and it was 50degC, which could be a problem, and they were made using PVA. Remember boats are made from composite and the are often in the rain.

By: Kial Furman

Kial Furman — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:53:34 +0000

I had a set of Full Carbon Fiber rims on my Nissan Silvia S13 and they started failing at the hub after it had rained for a week. I tried to drive but they broke after the first speedbump.

By: Xavier Abram

Xavier Abram — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:12:55 +0000

okay, look carbon wheel is becoming regular sight at any Formula SAE competition. The only thing that retards the production of such wheels is : their expensive to make (but that is not a problem) but thn like John Henry said:

F1 rule introduced in 1994 states

“Wheels must be made from an homogeneous metallic material”

That is the real problem.

They make bullet proof resistant composite (usually kevlar) so they could make chips resistant wheel pretty easily.

The only problem when rules permit people don’t have the money, and when money is here, like in formula 1,2,3,3000, bmw, gp …(you name it) or Le Mans or ALMS, well it’s a regulation problem. ost reducing regulations that is…

now examples to illustrate :

http://media.photobucket.com/image/fsae%20carbon%20wheel/ArosMike/Formula%20Student%20UK%2007/Formula_Student_07-77.jpg

http://rennteam-stuttgart.de/v3/en/home.html

the list is longer than that, and for 2010 look also at ÉTS

FSAE : http://clubetud.aeets.com/formulesae/

Now, like John Lennon said : “Dig it”

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:08:30 +0000

I met a guy at a Porsche event who had something similar on his 997. He told me that if they get damaged, you must replace the wheel at $4K each. A couple people in our region of the PCA run them on their race cars. I’ve seen the cars at our local mechanic shop and the wheels are chipped and scuffed all over. I’m skeptical as to how sane it is to run a carbon fiber wheel.

That said, they look amazing though!

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By: Creig

Creig — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:50:09 +0000

carbon fiber has a tensile strength about 18 times greater than aluminum and about 8.5 times greater than steel. C-fibers Young’s Modulus is about 2x that of aluminum. I wouldn’t be worried about strength if the wheel is properly engineered.

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Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:40:24 +0000

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By: Slide

Slide — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:29:00 +0000

It would be nice if you send me some pictures, too. Mail me at clenn@web.de, please. Thanks!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:17:21 +0000

Please do send them our way, just contact us on the contact link at the top and we’ll e-mail you back.