Kas

will the weight really make a differnce, i mean c'mon thats just nit picking.

e.g: you see a pretty girl and you want her bad but her friend is also nice, not as nice, but weights 3kg less. what do you choose?

rx8miami

yeah but the 3 kilos less girl won't make you any faster. the extra 3 kilos on the girl may be in the right place!

xXcfeboXx

*nods in approval*
mmmmhhhhmmmm mmmmhhhhmmmm mmmmhhhhmmmm

Kas

go take the biggest dump of your life and flush twice. that'll take off those extra few kg's for the wheels you prefer.

Sputnik

Then you have a limited understanding of weight in cars.

First, wheels are rotational weight. Depending on how far out from the center of the wheel this increased weight is, one kg would be the equivalent of anywhere from a little more than one to four kgs.

Second and more importantly, wheels are unsprung weight. Your goal is an optimum tire contact patch (the part of the tire in actual contact with the road surface). The more unsprung weight you have, the less consistent that contact patch will be, and this will negatively affect handling grip, handling consistency, braking grip, acceleration traction, and ride. While this will have an effect on the smoothest of surfaces, it will be more pronounced the rougher the surface gets, as the suspension struggles to maintain that optimum contact patch.

While you could theoretically remove one to four kgs in the car for every one kg in the wheels to make up for the rotational weight, it won't have any effect on the contact patch. If you want wheels that happen to be heavier, whether you want to show off and/or be popular, or whether you like them regardless of what anyone else thinks, your performance and ride will suffer.

---jps

bassik277

Flushing just once would do the job

epitrochoid

the ratio of a car's sprung to unspring weight makes a huge difference in the ride..thats where the myth of heavier cars riding better comes from