The Ultimate Aggressive Wheel Thread... Evo X Style
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You are kidding right! I have been racing for years and have yet to hear of a center cap flying of of a car (many race cars use center caps). The pounding on a daily driver potholed streets is far more severe.
As far as weight, unless you are running F1 then the weight savings is neglible. The rust I see growing on those running without center caps and open lugs will soon match the weight savings you are concerned about..and it will be more damaging in the long run.
As far as weight, unless you are running F1 then the weight savings is neglible. The rust I see growing on those running without center caps and open lugs will soon match the weight savings you are concerned about..and it will be more damaging in the long run.
Its all about weight saving in these race cars now and days 
Center caps and Closed end lug nuts add weight so of course its lighter and smarter to go with the open end lugs to save some weights and the center caps, who needs them too. Its a added not needed weight and liability 
Just think of what would happen if that heavy center cap came off on a race track? That could fly off the car at a 1,000,000 miles per hour and hit some one or even worse some poor fellow eating ice cream!!
My point is why take the risk of those things.
My Favorite Track car Evo X right there too. Gates
Center caps and Closed end lug nuts add weight so of course its lighter and smarter to go with the open end lugs to save some weights and the center caps, who needs them too. Its a added not needed weight and liability Just think of what would happen if that heavy center cap came off on a race track? That could fly off the car at a 1,000,000 miles per hour and hit some one or even worse some poor fellow eating ice cream!! My point is why take the risk of those things.
My Favorite Track car Evo X right there too. Gates
You are kidding right! I have been racing for years and have yet to hear of a center cap flying of of a car (many race cars use center caps). The pounding on a daily driver potholed streets is far more severe.
As far as weight, unless you are running F1 then the weight savings is neglible. The rust I see growing on those running without center caps and open lugs will soon match the weight savings you are concerned about..and it will be more damaging in the long run.
As far as weight, unless you are running F1 then the weight savings is neglible. The rust I see growing on those running without center caps and open lugs will soon match the weight savings you are concerned about..and it will be more damaging in the long run.
As for the rust I don't think it matters to much because even if you do have a center cap your still going to get water and moisture in there and they will still rust. I can't think of not seeing a wheel off a car and not seeing some sort of rusting under there and most cars have there center caps on lol. Rust is going to happen anyhow. I'm sure yours even has some light rust on it when you pull your wheel off. Just because you have your center cap on and can't see it doesn't mean you have some rust there like the rest of us
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I can't say those xxr527 do much for me. My GSR stock Enkei's have that basic design -- and deficiency. Too many GD spokes! I find them impossible to keep clean, so I've turned my Enkei's into track rims and run 522's on the DD. The offset looks really wide on those, they have a "spider" style rim that hangs outside of the rim by 1/2". And they came in a pretty normal size and offset, unlike that odd 9.75 rim size. But heck, they're a set of sporty rims. Like I was trying to say, they look amazingly like GSR stockers. But at a fraction of the price.