Cheap RIMS?
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Yesterday, I walk past a tyre shop and discover that its RIMS are darm cheap...
Avanti RIM only $100 to $120, RM RIMS only$100, 15" to 17" also have... Is this the market price for RIMS now... Some of them are urtra light ones also around these price... Really got the urge to change but afraid that there may be "chong" ones..
Any one knows the market now???
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Uncle HandGunner,
Not sleeping huh? 4:30am, no wonder you kun like nobody business on Microsoft Seminar...
Unity Centre really got ADM (Auto Design) lei, siao liao... can not find man.... -
Ok Let's make a simple vote here..
If money is out of consideration, all the brota and sista :-
Will you go for a forged rims or a normal rim but nice looking one?
What so good about Forged Rim?
And What so good about normal one?
Uncle HangGunner, quickly go fix your Audio issue and change the Rim la..
No mod is required on your car liao, you are driving EK4M man... -
hmmm..... i would go for...........
SPREWELLS!!! -
Today go checkout market liao...most of the Taiwan RIMS really $100+ only...
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Normal one normal use Forged one ...Tio Bie Pio than got budget to changeOriginally posted by boon_tl:Ok Let's make a simple vote here..
If money is out of consideration, all the brota and sista :-
Will you go for a forged rims or a normal rim but nice looking one?
What so good about Forged Rim?
And What so good about normal one?
Uncle HangGunner, quickly go fix your Audio issue and change the Rim la..
No mod is required on your car liao, you are driving EK4M man... -
Forging uses intense heat and pressure to transform a [solid} slug of alloy material into the final shape of a wheel. Forged aluminium is about 300 per cent stronger than cast aluminium, yet less material is needed to produce the same "cast alloy wheel", which results in a lighter product. Because of the basic limitations inherent in forging, most forged wheels are two or three piece units. In two-piece construction, a centre is forged and welded or bolted into a spun or stamped outer rim. In a three-piece wheel, the centre is bolted to an inner and an outer rim half. This stands as an advantage of being easily customisable for a variety of widths and offsets.
Casting is a relatively inexpensive way to produce a high-quality, fairly strong alloy wheel. There are two methods used. One, system is known as gravity casting... whereby the molten material is poured into a mold and allowed to cool. These molds are usually made by machining a piece of material on CNC machine equipments to produce a wheel that only requires minor finishing (like drilling or possibly trimming of some excess metal) to be considered complete. The other and better system used is the low pressure or negative pressure casting. Here instead of pouring the molten material into the mould, the molten alloy is drawn up into the mould using a high-pressure vacuum. This eliminates much of the trapped air found in gravity casting process, producing a stronger wheel that is less porous than a gravity-cast one. -
can use sand casting to make rims or not?Originally posted by ed2004:Forging uses intense heat and pressure to transform a [solid} slug of alloy material into the final shape of a wheel. Forged aluminium is about 300 per cent stronger than cast aluminium, yet less material is needed to produce the same "cast alloy wheel", which results in a lighter product. Because of the basic limitations inherent in forging, most forged wheels are two or three piece units. In two-piece construction, a centre is forged and welded or bolted into a spun or stamped outer rim. In a three-piece wheel, the centre is bolted to an inner and an outer rim half. This stands as an advantage of being easily customisable for a variety of widths and offsets.
Casting is a relatively inexpensive way to produce a high-quality, fairly strong alloy wheel. There are two methods used. One, system is known as gravity casting... whereby the molten material is poured into a mold and allowed to cool. These molds are usually made by machining a piece of material on CNC machine equipments to produce a wheel that only requires minor finishing (like drilling or possibly trimming of some excess metal) to be considered complete. The other and better system used is the low pressure or negative pressure casting. Here instead of pouring the molten material into the mould, the molten alloy is drawn up into the mould using a high-pressure vacuum. This eliminates much of the trapped air found in gravity casting process, producing a stronger wheel that is less porous than a gravity-cast one.