17 Lbs Too Light For The Street?

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10-12-2003, 06:07 PM

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93 R1

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my 18x9.5's are around 17 lbs.

10-12-2003, 08:15 PM

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rfreeman27

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Run high tire pressure and it will lessen the chance of bending a wheel. This was advice from a tire rack guy that had SSR's, which are a light one peice forged wheel. They too have problems with bending.

10-21-2003, 05:15 PM

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FrestyleFC3S

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my watanabes are 14 lb

10-21-2003, 05:33 PM

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wile_e_coyote

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How hard/easy is it to bend a wheel?

I've heard 2 places, wheeloptions and tirerack, both say that they have troulbe with SSRs bending. (Crap! I like SSR wheels, and I wanted those new GT2s.) Wheeloptions even stopped carrying them.

I'm also interested in the 5zigen FN01Rs, but I'm a little concerned about the bending thing too...

Wait...Aren't the stock wheels like 15lbs? Aren't they pretty strong?