[DeTomaso] Wheel weight

[Nolan Scheid]

Yikes Ken,
Could you imagine rolling down the road at the top of fifth gear on wheels made in China!
No Thank you.

Nolan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Green" <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
To: <julian_kift at hotmail.com>; <detomaso at realbig.com>; <JDeRyke at aol.com>
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Wheel weight


> The wheel making I talked to mentioned that some failures are because the rims are too stong. If 
> the rim is ridged, when the tire hits something, all of the shock that gets to the rims is 
> directly passed to the center. He said a properly engineered wheel distributes shock between the 
> rim and the center.
>
> I overheard one conversation between a wheel seller and a potential buyer. The seller said he gets 
> the wheels from China and they cost only a little more than the material and shipping. I had the 
> feeling that he had no idea of the soundness of a design or the metalurgy in the wheels he sells. 
> He was much cheaper than the US wheel maker.
>
> It seems like there is a lot more to wheel design than appearance.
>
> Ken