Wheel Weight

[FlowForm_Wheels]

Do you, or will you offer a R spec offset and width wheel option for our cars?

If the question was for me, yes that's no problem at all. All of our Forged wheels are custom made to order, so you can select diameter, width, offset, and color, or you can recommend to you a fitment if you're unsure.

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[xt6wagon]

That makes sense then, what doesnt make a lot of sense is Ford offering a forged wheel option for the Focus RS and zilch for the GT350. I wonder if they did this specifically to keep the performance delta between the R and base car wider

Forged is much cheaper in that small size. I bet Ford already has a supplier set up to mass produce forged Focus rims well before now.

I'd also bet Forged was on the menu till they found that the CF wheels could be justified. GT350R providing plenty of engineering before they went on the Ford GT. That said its a little wierd that the stock Ford GT rims are forged and the optional are CF.

 

[Jb350]

That makes sense then, what doesnt make a lot of sense is Ford offering a forged wheel option for the Focus RS and zilch for the GT350. I wonder if they did this specifically to keep the performance delta between the R and base car wider

I agree that part of the reason for not offering forged wheels was to be able to justify the Cf wheels(which I belive are a gimmick/marketing tool. Yes carbon fiber wheels are fucking awesome, but A quality lightweight forged wheels would perform just as well as the R wheels do). If ford made forged wheels stamdard for the regular 350 instead of the cast wheels, and the msrp was $3-5k higher 99.9% of buyers would have happily paid the premium.

 

[firestarter2]

I agree that part of the reason for not offering forged wheels was to be able to justify the Cf wheels(which I belive are a gimmick/marketing tool. Yes carbon fiber wheels are fucking awesome, but A quality lightweight forged wheels would perform just as well as the R wheels do). If ford made forged wheels stamdard for the regular 350 instead of the cast wheels, and the msrp was $3-5k higher 99.9% of buyers would have happily paid the premium.

62k I would of not been interested. 60 was really my mental line

 

[Tflong24]

62k I would of not been interested. 60 was really my mental line

I guess like me you are one of the lucky ones who didn't pay an ADM. If $60 was your max.

 

[02gtnh]

My Vette forged wheels weighed, 19" fronts 24.8lbs, and 20" rears were 27.2lbs. So a car in that price range, those are heavy wheels.

 

[Zitrosounds]

I agree that part of the reason for not offering forged wheels was to be able to justify the Cf wheels(which I belive are a gimmick/marketing tool. Yes carbon fiber wheels are fucking awesome, but A quality lightweight forged wheels would perform just as well as the R wheels do). If ford made forged wheels stamdard for the regular 350 instead of the cast wheels, and the msrp was $3-5k higher 99.9% of buyers would have happily paid the premium.

A gimmick? CF is much stronger and rigid than forged AL. The CF wheels are better suited for street and track vs light weight forged.

 

[nastang87xx]

62k I would of not been interested. 60 was really my mental line

That was mine too or abouts there. no R for me. :(

 

[firestarter2]

I guess like me you are one of the lucky ones who didn't pay an ADM. If $60 was your max.

Some member got me a msrp on a 2016 luckily. I had a 2017 on order for 61 lucky and the price made my eye twitch

 

[JN66]

I recently scraped my stock wheel up - I was surprised to find the CAD replacement value north of 2k.

 

[krt22]

Ford replacement part prices are a joke, simply huge mark up on them. I remember on my 2012 GT the OEM replacement wheel was ~$1000. Ford racing sold the identical set of 4 in a different finish for...$1000!

 

[Zcobra1]

They may be a little heavy, but remember the support a relative heavy car....

Vette weighs 10% less so you can use lighter wheels. Even Forged track specific
wheels have cracked under heavy track use, GT350 is expected to hit the track
so Ford overbuilt the wheels. Makes sense.

Can always spring for some Finspeeds....

 

[snaproll]

They may be a little heavy, but remember the support a relative heavy car....

Vette weighs 10% less so you can use lighter wheels. Even Forged track specific
wheels have cracked under heavy track use, GT350 is expected to hit the track
so Ford overbuilt the wheels. Makes sense.

Can always spring for some Finspeeds....

Exactly. And the light and cheap wheels like Enkeis bend easily under a mustang. In fact, I would consider the Enkeis disposable they are so easy to bend. Of course even the OEM wheels will bend if you hit them hard enough on a curb or hole on (off?) track, but heavy wheels like the OEM GT500's have proven tough. There's no free lunch.

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