Do you use carbon fiber wheels on your Porsches, Veeky Forums?
$15000 per set
Do you use carbon fiber wheels on your Porsches, Veeky Forums?
Jackson Bailey
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William Rodriguez
Yes, of course. I have 20 sets of these.
Jackson Hill
Kek poorfag. I have 911 sets for my 911 garage queen
Alexander Collins
No, but I got them for free on my gt350r
Dominic Russell
>He doesn't have a carbon fiber car.
>Transported via carbon fiber flatbed
>To his carbon fiber parking garage
>As his daily driver.
>To the moon.
Must suck being poor.
Adam Smith
>mom comes over to my carbon fiber estate
>lights a cigarette at the carbon fiber kitchen table
>mfw
Dominic Cox
Carbon fibre wheels are a meme and virtually unheard of in actual motorsport.
>inb4 some stillborn rally shit
William Smith
it's all about magnesium
Jose Ramirez
Yeah I got them for free after doing 100 heist set ups.
Mason Taylor
That's because non-metallic wheels are banned and have a minimum weight.
Rest assured that if they made rules at top levels permitting the use of carbon fiber wheels, everyone would use them.
Remember, if you see stuff on road cars that makes you ask yourself "why is nobody using this clearly convenient and performing part in race cars?", the answer will almost always be "because it's banned by the rules"
Christopher Taylor
So what does Veeky Forums use on their Porsches?
Hudson Barnes
lel
Jackson Hernandez
Most Porsche owners I've seen on here just run the OEM wheels their cars came with.
Brayden Adams
mine is all stock
Caleb Walker
more like "because it fucking randomly explodes under extreme force instead of slightly deforming like metal"
Fucking fiberglass ladders scare the shit out of me.
Sebastian Price
Stiffness is the 1 major advantage of CF wheels, as long as they don't fail.
They improve precision in cornering and drifting
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William Reed
Magnesium alloys are more robust, so for high speed motorsports like F1, they are optimal. Could CF wheels make the cars go faster? probably not, because they need to meet weight specs. It could make the car more fuel efficient, but ultimately CF wheels would not add enough benefit to that motorsport for the risks and general pain in the ass that is composite parts.
Daniel Campbell
Probably. I run carbon rims on my MTB and they're the shit. Light and stiff.
Nolan Taylor
how strange i cant find any source that lists a weight to those wheels, no one wants to give an actual number and no one on a forum has weighed their set and posted it yet
Isaac Price
citing the article:
"Carbon Revolution cites a weight savings of more than ten pounds for each wheel (a total of 41.2 pounds, or 18.7 kg)"
the original 2012 Porsche 911 wheel weight is:
>Front 22 Lbs. 8 Oz.
>Rear 27 Lbs
so using what was said in the article the wheels would weigh around 14.2 pounds per wheel
GODDAMN
RPF-1s weigh 21 pounds for a wheel size of 19x9
Levi Wood
Fucking kek.
I run junkyard cookie cutters on my 944 24/7
Hunter Gutierrez
Yeah they are obviously banned for safety reasons, there is not much to gain from a composite wheel that they need to ban it to avoid cheating.
There is a minimum weight anyway so they could make them out of cast metal if it turns out to be durable enough.
WEC rules don't even say they have to be magnesium (like F1), just that they need to be made out of metal