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  • Adrian_Thompson

    April 6, 2010 8:57 a.m. Adrian_Thompson HalfDork

    Reading the wrap up in the latest issue, great job on meeting your objective of beating the M3 for less money. As an aside if you read EVO, you'll see they tried something similar with a 135i and failed to make it any faster even after spending 5k GBP!!!.

    Unlike many complaints about the project on here, I loved it. One pet peeve though. How much did the CCW wheels weigh? You talked at length about wheel choice and how the CCW's were light and what other cheaper choices you could have made. But you never once said the stock wheels were Xlb's and the CCW's where Ylb's. My suspicious mind then assumes that the CCW's weren't as light as the article was implying. What were the #'s?

  • Adrian_Thompson

    April 7, 2010 11:51 a.m. Adrian_Thompson HalfDork

    OK, no response in a day and a half. So can people on here answer? Does anyone know the weight of stock 335 wheels and /or CCW's?

  • scardeal

    April 7, 2010 12:04 p.m. scardeal Reader

    Wasn't that a 335i, btw?

    I don't know the answer to your question, sorry.

  • Adrian_Thompson

    April 7, 2010 12:25 p.m. Adrian_Thompson HalfDork

    scardeal wrote:

    Wasn't that a 335i, btw?

    I don't know the answer to your question, sorry.

    Yeah, brain fade when the magazine is at home!

  • miatame

    April 7, 2010 12:49 p.m. miatame Reader

    You could try GOOGLE

    No 18" wheel is going to be THAT light. I'd say these are ~20-22 lbs. I bet the factory wheels are damn heavy though, maybe 35lbs.

  • Per Schroeder

    April 7, 2010 12:52 p.m. Per Schroeder Technical Editor/Advertising Director

    I thought there was a bit with each of them on the scale. I'll have to look for it (not on this computer.) IIRC, they were slightly lighter (a few pounds) but wider/larger.

  • David S. Wallens

    April 7, 2010 12:54 p.m. David S. Wallens Editorial Director

    We dropped 2 pounds per corner.

  • John Brown

    April 7, 2010 1:00 p.m. John Brown SuperDork

    So the factory wheels were 730lbs and the new ones are 728lbs, right?

  • David S. Wallens

    April 7, 2010 1:15 p.m. David S. Wallens Editorial Director

    John Brown wrote:

    So the factory wheels were 730lbs and the new ones are 728lbs, right?

    Exactly.

  • John Brown

    April 7, 2010 1:20 p.m. John Brown SuperDork

    David S. Wallens wrote:

    John Brown wrote:

    So the factory wheels were 730lbs and the new ones are 728lbs, right?

    Exactly.

    LOL

    My favorite photos still have "David S.Wallens" underneath them.

  • David S. Wallens

    April 7, 2010 1:38 p.m. David S. Wallens Editorial Director

    John Brown wrote:

    My favorite photos still have "David S.Wallens" underneath them.

    Suck-up.

  • John Brown

    April 7, 2010 1:48 p.m. John Brown SuperDork

    No different than seven years ago big guy ;)

  • Per Schroeder

    April 7, 2010 1:50 p.m. Per Schroeder Technical Editor/Advertising Director

    The key with the weight difference (I believe we're taking about 43 vs 45lbs with tires) is that the new package was considerably larger in width, as well as being a 19" rim.

  • David S. Wallens

    April 7, 2010 1:55 p.m. David S. Wallens Editorial Director

    John Brown wrote:

    No different than seven years ago big guy ;)

    Aw. And I didn't say that you had to stop.

 
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