Wheel weights for 360s....

Probably the 360 Challenge 18" BBS wheels -as they where made for racing.

Do not confuse them with the stylish 19" 360CS wheels (pictured) which I recently purchased. While these look much nicer with the Pirelli tyres they are not for racing. A set of 4 of them weigh just over 200 pounds! (over 90kgs!) which lets face it is NOT lightweight! Still they look cool on the 360cs (so much for Ferrari trying to reduce unsprung weight... the whole joke about Titanium nuts when the wheels weigh 200 pounds... yeh, right, sure Ferrari, :roll eyes: throw us another marketing gimmick line... sigh ).
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Check out ebay item no. 190138792789

These are the lightweight Challenge BBS 18" Wheel's. They have BBS written in RED on them.

 

I forget how much each corner weighed, but, my I-forged Aero setup is 10-12 pounds lighter, per corner, than the Novitec setup.

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Sounds impressive. I was just surprised how much a tyre weights, a lot of the weight is in the tyres!!!

 

Dont forget to let us all know !

Cheers,

Trev

 

Wow that 40lbs saving over the heavy 19" cs wheels/tyres combo!!

Makes fitting 'titanium' wheel nuts to 'save unsprung weight' seem very gimmicky huh ?

In fairness Ferrari needed to fit 19's so they could fit those huge carbon ccm brakes So, who says you cannot improve on a 360cs???

 

Indeed ... those 355 are heavy

 

Actually, the 360 Challenge (IIRC) and the ALMS or GT2 cars ran the same SIZE brakes and same calipers, but in iron (the rotors), as required by rules, fitted with 18" wheels, also dictated by the rules. The 19" fitment is more a bow to marketing the "Concept Car Ideal" as drawn by the stylists.

 

Scott,
Just be sure ahead of time of what you are getting - the Challenge wheels should fit just fine, but I would be careful of other mfrs., and even models within the BBS line. As I and others have found, sometimes the offset for the clearing the brake caliper, and/or the INNER dimension (diameter) of the barrel will not be enough for clearance.

Incidently, I'm also a fan of the Challenge wheel's spoke pattern - have had essentially the same (BBS RC and CH) on a couple of other cars.

 

Have you weighed the standard 360 'star' wheels yet? Back when I was shopping for track wheels for the 360 they were hard to beat for weight (tires were mounted already, so I could only estimate). Plus you can find them for resale at reduced prices since a lot of owners don't like the looks. I wound up buying a pair of SAC Monolite wheels (no longer available apparently) that were roughly 18-19 lbs, and a set of Kinesis K18Rs. The Kinesis were purposely wider since I wanted to try wider 315/35-18 rear tires, so their weight is a bit more and not directly comparable.


Lou