New Billet Wheels

Those look bitchin and gonna be fast I bet :bugeye:

We have one of our customers doing a back to back dyno run on one of their Time Attack cars this week. If it tests good, they will leave it on the car and try to beat on it at a race

Aside from the obvious design and looks, is there any difference in weight between these and stock wheels?

Between a cast wheel and the billet......yes there is a weight difference.

Can you just remove the old wheel and bolt on the new billet one?
I.e no full assembly balancing required?

Thanks,
Walter

No, turbine and compressor must be balanced as a unit.

shag55 said:

No, turbine and compressor must be balanced as a unit.

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why???..figured the balancing was done on the exhaust side..this will surely kill sales

The wheels are balanced separately at the time of production. The compressor wheel is them put on the turbine wheel and balanced as a rotating assembly. When things spin 80-120K, you don't take chances.

turbo-d said:

Between a cast wheel and the billet......yes there is a weight difference.

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Which one is heavier?

My guess will be the billet one is heavier. Although it's heavier, it won't flex under high RPM and Boost. Prob will make a small differance. But, everything helps. If for some reason it doesn't make more power.... than I'm sure they can make differant combos with blade pitch, inducer/exducer/trim sizes and really tweak it in, so it will make more power in the end.

CobraJet said:

Which one is heavier?

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The Billet in the lighter of the two

Makes sense, more raw material in the standard wheel. I have a customer overseas I'd like to set up with a billet wheel turbo. I might need a quote soon. :thumbsup:

Very cool! I like those sort of art creations from left over car parts a lot!
Just build a coffe table out of a VW W8 enginecase myself.

Nice table top Christmas Tree!

You have to post pics of that table .....

Actually, I want THAT in my car!
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what engine is that?

dcuplover said:

what engine is that?

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Its a Volkswagen engine! (duh! LOL)
From a 2001-2004-ish Passat.
W8 - 4.0 ltr - 275hp