Grimace427
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That is a great job! I really do not like black wheels, that would look beautiful especially on a black car.
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good to hear that i am not aloneI just posted this in the photos section of supposedly a track pack/pp prototype. If true we could have more than one PP wheel option.
I'm not a huge fan of the black wheels too so I hope these are an option. I would also be happy with the lightened black wheels the user above posted.
I just posted this in the photos section of supposedly a track pack/pp prototype. If true we could have more than one PP wheel option.
I'm not a huge fan of the black wheels too so I hope these are an option. I would also be happy with the lightened black wheels the user above posted.
Why do you say that?That's not a track pack.
http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php/will-there-brembo-1372.htmlWhy do you say that?
Like I wrote in the other thread, I'm just going by what the OP posted, but I'm going to assume he knows what he's talking about if he works at the Flat Rock plant and had access to these cars.
I forgot to mention there are non branded Brembos here.
I have very similar wheels currently on my GTO. It does take a little longer to keep them clean. Strangely they seem to look cleaner than the stock silver painted wheels I had on it. I notice the brake dust less as well. Of course I usually wash it by hand weekly. I avoid automated car washes like the plague too. In fact, I have never even used one. ;) I look forward to the black wheels.OH my, those will be a nightmare to keep clean. I have some black painted factory rims on my Focus. They get dirty driving home from the car wash and then you will have to stick a rag in every little crevasse to get them clean. It will take forever to clean them.
Another thing. You won't be able to go through a car wash if you need a quick clean. I took my focus through the car wash a couple times and scratched up the black paint on the rims very badly.
You're doing a fair amount of nitpicking the tires as being the only issue as to why the ZL1 outperforms the Shelby on longer track runs.We did, but that car most likely isn't a GT. Sure I can add those later on my own but it would help the car out in the magazines where people who don't want to spend money on better tires after purchasing a car make their decisions on subjective lap times and driver impressions.
When Randy Pobst talked about "not very confident under braking" look at how far that ripple effected people's decisions about the car! Every serious track day guy knows that stock brake pads are going to be a compromise but it didn't stop people from choosing a different platform. Same with the "The GT500 is a straight line car, the ZL1 is a corner carving car, therefore the ZL1 is the better track day car" when the reality is the GT500's cornering speed was axed by being down so much tire to the ZL1.
I suppose in a lot of respects I want it specifically for the magazine tests, because I want the car to be successful but I also recognize that it has other performance benefits that people use every day. Ever had to making an emergency stop because some A-Hole jumped out in front of you or jumped on his brakes to avoid hitting bambi? Better tires helps there more than bigger brakes do. The issue is that wider tires doesn't sell cars nearly as well as the perceived brake size increase does. That's the world we live in.
This wheel is NOT a performance pack wheel, correct? Someone mentioned that this photo was of a performance pack car (it is the color I want ). Those tires appear to be the all-season Pirelli.Back to the initial topic: The reason why the V8 PP wheel is that mesh-looking wheel is so that the ideal wheel stiffness is delivered. Notice how the "snowflake" '13 Shelby Track Pack wheel was of similar shape, and that was the stiffest wheel I've seen (stiffer than Boss Laguna... that wheel itself pretty rigid).
Sure some of it is about styling and making it look cool with the 'mesh' look.. but it is also a lot about the functionality of the wheel.
Long story short: Stiffer wheel=better road feel/steering response and better durability