Im liking the most recent ones just posted by "Daz" are definately very very nice! Liking the difference in concave, not 100% whether i would prefer a teeny teeny bit more concave on the front, but id still part with the cash, if i had it
How about these!! There probs my fav wheels!! Just Rota grids with some dish prety much!
Last edited by Polo2; 09-12-2010 at 22:06.
They're pretty smart Polo
We're just waiting for the thumbs up on forged wheels, from Rota, then designs can get more crazy and weights and keep on tumbling
Daz, I do appreciate your efforts, hopefully this has also helped get your eye back in on your drawing program I'd say it's working a treat I'll get you some pics tomorrow of some wheels to give you an idea of what changes with different offset
No worries, I look forward to the pics tomorrow to see what you mean.
I don't mind doing more models if you need them .
It's helping me get back into the program nicely as I've been using it for 5 days solid at work but it's been a few months since I last used it. It's the rendering program to produce stuff like this that I use for work.
Nothing changes with offset, its the width that changes the look of the wheel.
From my understanding, youl have one mold for each width, then once out of the mold the flat face is machined that mates to the hub, how much is machined off is what changes the offset. Obviously the wheel nut holes are also cut at this stage to, so they get the correct depth engaugment for differant offsets.
That's largely the case Polo.
It's sort of hard to put in words, I'll throw up a couple of pics in the morning.
Most people dont realise that a 9.5 ET12 has the same concave as 9.5 ET35. Yes the 9.5 could probably have loads more, if the same mould didn't need to produce the ET35... This is potentially where centrelock wheels and hub adapters come in, as they'll be the easiest things to do spacers for ever
polo that strawberry faced rs13 is sexual....
Thanks Paul.
I thought I'd search youtube and it saves the day for me. Very impressive stuff, that flowforming looks pretty cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq1Yy...eature=related
Ooo this looks like a good excuse to start messing about with 3DS Max again. I think I'll have a play over the weekend
Here we go:
18x9.5 ET12:
18x9.5 ET30:
As you can see, same size, same concave, just different in the very centre
Yeah, concave is good. Generally you can have concave, or you can have dish. If you have both, the offsets and widths go wild, for a wheel that will have to be produced and sold in numbers rather than random one-off sets like some brands, they cant be too insane
Oh, Ben, can you measure the depth of the fixing holes where the studs come through
The bit that's just hole is about 6mm. On top of that is the 60 degree taper where the nuts sit.
The thickness of the centre part is approx. 18mm overall, curved at the edges where it joins the spoked parts rather than being a 90 degree step.
Does that make sense? All this talk of nuts and holes is making me worry about myself
Ben, got one more question for you. What is the min distance from the mounting face to the back edge of the spoke? I'm guessing about 15-20mm for that.