C5R OZ wheels Options

[robz71lm7]

I've got to wonder how much these are actually worth...

http://www.chevymall.com/jump.jsp?itemID=2...temType=PRODUCT

[rmackintosh]

Heck thats CHEAP....too bad they won't fit on my car.....I'ld but them in a second!

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[00 Trans Ram]

Something smells fishy. $125-$150 for a full on race wheel? And they don't even list the size, offset, weight, or bolt pattern for it? Seems like that info would be pretty important to someone who is buying a race wheel. Are these real wheels, or some kind of living room decoration?

[Curmudgeon]

I think there is something not said. Those wheels would be 1000.00 or more each. Now these may be race damage wheels that they are selling for people to put in there living rooms. But the price seems very low.

[trackbird]

I think there is something not said. Those wheels would be 1000.00 or more each. Now these may be race damage wheels that they are selling for people to put in there living rooms. But the price seems very low.

That was my guess. "With signed certificate". Not race wheels any more, but they make a nice coffee table. Still, if I could race and sell off my "junk" wheels for $125+ each, I'd do it.

[steve-d]

http://www.chevymall.com/jump.jsp?itemType...EWAY&itemID=196

http://www.chevymall.com/jump.jsp?itemID=2...temType=PRODUCT

Used parts off a race car. Prolly not worth much other than as decoration in your garage. OTOH, it'd probably get $1150 at a Corvette flea market.

Stve

[robz71lm7]

Yeah they are used race parts meant as decoration. I guess they must be pretty badly damaged at that price. I just thought it was neat. 4 of them and glass would make a nice coffee table.

[lateapex]

They are USED wheels. They are retired when bent or they fail the crack test, or the end of the season. They are considered, officially, as unsafe for use. They are not legal for street use when new. The rim cross-section varies in thickness, but at its thinnest is @ .070”. They probably have the valve stem hole opened up to 2” so that no one would try to actually use them as wheels (that alloy is over 94% Mg). They are meant for souvenirs.

Before the team switched to OZ, the BBS one-piece forged magnesium wheels they used cost $1,500 each. The rears weighed 16 lbs even, for sure, and measured 18” x 14” as I recall. That is one reason BBS lost the contract for the team. The new rear OZ weighed about 15.5 lbs, and had considerably less deflection. The C5R drivers were about ½ second per lap quicker with the OZ. I found that hard to believe, but it was BBS’s lead (north American) track-side tech telling me the story right after it happened. He said most of the reduction in lap time came from the lessened deflection, rather than the weight savings.

[trackbird]

They probably have the valve stem hole opened up to 2” so that no one would try to actually use them as wheels (that alloy is over 94% Mg). They are meant for souvenirs.

I can see one of my old buddys now, "A little work with a tig welder, they'll be good as new".

"What's Magnesium"?

[steve-d]

I can see one of my old buddys now, "A little work with a tig welder, they'll be good as new".

"What's Magnesium"?

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