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Volk Racing – Flagship forged sport wheels brand name of Rays Engineering. [4] Gram Lights – Lightweight wheels manufactured through casting process. Eco Drive Gear – Lightweight wheels focused on being eco friendly. 57 Motor Sport – Cast racing wheels used in World Touring Car Championship and British Touring Car Championship.
There are two types of forged wheels: one piece and modular. Modular forged wheels may feature two- or three-piece design. Typical multi-piece wheels consist of the inner rim base, outer rim lip and wheel center piece with openings for lug nuts. All parts of a modular wheel are held with bolts. BBS RS is one of the most famous three-piece ...
The main disadvantage of forged wheels is the high manufacturing cost. Owing to the typically high costs of finished wheels, forged wheels are still rarely purchased by non-professional drivers for regular road use. But since forged wheels can be designed to be lighter than cast wheels for a given load, forged wheels do offer fuel economy and ...
BeamNG.drive is a 2015 vehicle simulation video game developed and published by Bremen-based video game developer BeamNG GmbH for personal computers. The game features soft-body physics to simulate realistic handling and damage to vehicles .
These centre-lock forged aluminium wheels represent an upgrade not only in aesthetics but also in car performance, thanks to a 10-kilo weight reduction compared to Battista wheels. The rear pair has been enlarged from 20-inch to 21-inch to enable greater traction when driving in high-performance environments.
The KZ1-R uses a carbon fibre chassis and a tubular steel rear frame. Both front and rear suspension are double-wishbone with coil over dampers, mated to anti-roll bars for stability. The wheels are 19-inch (483 mm) forged aluminium racing wheels mounted to 305/30x19 tires in the rear and 235/35x19 tires in the front.
1969 Porsche 911E with Fuchs wheels. The Fuchs wheel or Fuchsfelge is a wheel made for the first Porsche 911 model in the early 1960s. [1] Designed in conjunction with Otto Fuchs KG [], Porsche modeler Heinrich Klie and Ferdinand Porsche Jr for the 1967 model year Porsche 911S, the Fuchs wheel was the first light-weight forged wheel to be fitted to a production automotive vehicle.
A Mecanum wheel is an omnidirectional wheel design for a land-based vehicle to move in any direction. It is sometimes called the Swedish wheel or Ilon wheel after its inventor, Bengt Erland Ilon (1923–2008), [ 1 ] who conceived of the concept while working as an engineer with the Swedish company Mecanum AB, and patented it in the United ...