I watched your video more than once great to see you break into the 12’s. I gotta get that IM and some LW rotors soon!!
I didnt have a svale when I put my new tires on but the tire and the rim are about the same weight. Which feels like 22 lbs or so
You sure about that? Usually those big ass cast wheels are anchors.
IIRC, cast BLQ’s in 19x8.5 weigh 28-29lbs. With 9.5 width, they’ve got be at least a solid 30lbs each.
Ok so my weight scales ie. Arms suck lol sry.
who cares about VMR wheels?
19x8.5 Roti BLQ weigh 27 lbs. 19x9.5 won’t be more than 30 lbs. His current tires probably weigh 20 lbs. So around 50…again…jus tlike stock B6 setups. If he drops down to something really nice and 19", but also light, he’s probably looking at 22lbs at best…and that’s going to be HRE or OZ or something that will cost him a good $2000+. Then he needs tires, so he’s going to end up around 44 lbs at best…i.e. 24 lbs lighter than current. i.e. JHM lw rotors. i.e. not a ton.
Don’t forget…even though you or beemer might go skinny and small wheels to save weight, doesn’t mean everyone will. It’d be unrealistic to ask him to just as it would be unrealistic for him to ask you to run 9.5" wheels with 215s stretched to within a mm of their life. So the weight of tiny little Enkeis is also irrelevant. He doesn’t want to run some tiny little lightweight wheels. He wants something aesthetically killer to match the rest of his car. Having track-only wheels is kinda silly because the car is no longer running in street form. May as well put drag radials on there while you’re at it. But then it’s even more irrelevant for a ‘street’ car.
Someone is sour today.
bitch
think about it though…am I wrong? If he’s big on the low enough to scrape going over a caterpillar scene, he’s not going to rock 18x8 wheels. Sorry.
haha the A6 definitely isnt skinny, I have nearly 4 feet of tire width on the ground. imho the best look is a smaller wheel with a bigger square sidewall, it looks so mean. And my track wheels became my summer wheels lol, even drove through 6" of snow with them
245/35 n3000’s weigh 23.7 lbs so he’s looking at 53lbs per corner. Getting to 40lbs per corner isn’t unrealistic for 18 or 19" wheels and loosing 52lbs of rotating mass certainly isn’t going to hurt. If he’s trying to make the car as fast as possible, a set of lw track wheels seems like a no-brainer. He could buy a lightly used setup to save some money and sell them with minimal additional use a few years later for close to the same price.
I just don’t think track wheels (or pulling your back seat, or running race gas) makes sense. The dragstrip isn’t what we bought these cars for…it’s just a nice measuring stick. If we start fucking with the car and running it in non-street trim, it’s a bit of a false metric. I mean don’t get me wrong, if you like the strip, go nuts. I just think that what we use the strip for as a group is a measurement of what’s working and what’s not. Despite the road racing superstars who think that anyone who takes their RS4 or S4 to the dragstrip is there every week in a season long league/series, the reality is that 99% of us do it for a) fun and b) to test the car. We’re not defining the car as a dragstrip car.
(The funny thing is they’re WAY more into road racing than most of the guys who hit the strip once a year in full street trim are into drag racing. We go maybe 1 or 2 times a year for the most part. We go 100% stock. They have fucking roll cages and racing suits and $5,000 suspension and track wheels and track pads etc…and the comedy of it is that they’re driving 3900 lb cars with 60% of the weight over the front wheels. If anyone has the ‘intent’ of these cars wrong…it’s them!
p.s. ryan’s tires are 215, not 245
I definitely get your point about it being a false metric but what’s the point of doing lightweight anything if you’re going drive around with boat anchor wheels/tires? But having a mix of looks and performance is important as well. That’s why I went with the rs-10’s for my car. I got to run 19"s that look decent and are only 19 lbs. They don’t look as good as a BLQ does, but save 10lbs per corner in comparison.
He posted 245/30 earlier in the thread so I assumed he meant 245/35. A 215 on a 9.5" wheel is going to be one hell of a stretch!
Ok so saki is right im a road racer by heart! And my curent setuo is 245/30/19 nexen 3000. Due to my crazy stretch I blew two tires strectched and looks great but killer on the car! so I put some more tire on the car. But I would like to get another set of wheels fir track use since the bkq’s are my daily wheels .
yeah, I know what you mean.
I’ll say this to you though: What’s the point of your $1300 2.5" Fast Intentions catback exhaust when you haven’t addressed the stock exhaust manifolds? Or your stock downpipes? I mean shit dude…you should have headers, or else not bother with any exhaust mods.
Of course that’s not true, but it’s the same type of slippery slope argument. Not everyone can afford to do everything…and when you factor in the aesthetics, some people don’t mind being on wheels that are stock weight if they look great. I ran basically stock weight wheels my entire 4 years of B7 S4 ownership…but I had JHM LW rotors, and full exhaust and tune and LWCP…and ran 12.9.
On that note…funny that cabracco went 12s on the motor…and had heavy ass wheels. I did. V8 S4 Ryan did. jfunkey did. Only ones with LW wheels were the two headers cars, justincredible and jaybquick.
edit: since he’s 245, he’s probably 3 lbs per corner worse than stock. Not a huge deal. If he wants to sell his BLQs and find something more size appropriate it’s certainly an option to cut some weight but it’s likely going to cost him a fortune.
Can’t beat the RS10s really. Great looking wheels, 20lbs, forged at 1/3 the cost of other forged wheels…
Lightweight wheels do make a difference. Whether on the strip, the track, or just around town. After going from 20" boat anchors to RS10s on PS2, at 45lbs a corner, the car felt noticeably faster.
I’d love to log that back to back
Hey…Ryan ran a 12.83 with anchors and a 2.25" catback…just wanted to remind everyone who is debating rim and tire options ;D
edit…shit and a nasty ass 60ft
Lol euroswagr
didn’t you notice above that I already reminded everyone about that? Of the six 12 second all motor B6/7 S4s, 4 of us had heavy wheels.
ya man, i saw it, don’t BenSTi me…lol I just wanted to make sure they saw it