proper wheels

[Advancedynamix]

After waiting 5 months, my team dynamics wheels arrived from England today. Had them custom made to my specs for my slicks. I'm so stoked to try these.

[Spike]

So pretty! drool

Bet those cost an arm and a kidney. :p

[kellen302]

So Sexyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[Advancedynamix]

So pretty! drool

Bet those cost an arm and a kidney. :p

Actually they weren't bad. Less than 200 a wheel ( shipped from England) and they are forged and less than 10 lbs a wheel. They make them to your specs but you can't be in a hurry for them. Britts only put in a couple good hours of work a day. :p

[Ford Fester]

BONERIFFIC

[zoom zoom]

Sweet rims bro.. you shoulda had them drill for 4x100 too just incase!

[Advancedynamix]

these are 4x100, Tweak has aspire front brakes now and I drilled the festiva drums out to 4x100. I don't think they will do dual patterns, or atleast I've never seen team dynamics wheels in dual pattern.

[junspeed]

They are extremely awesome... :thumbleft: :thumbright:

[bhazard]

Why do you have festiva brakes in the rear?

[Advancedynamix]

Because the Aspire setup is quite a bit heavier than the festiva setup, and I am focused on removing all the un necessary weight from the rear of the car. This is to improve overall traction and high speed stability. Every ounce counts, I can feel the difference from a half gallon of gasoline in the tank! I've also lightened and balanced the festiva drums along with the racing press in studs. The stock drums have plenty of bite even with Toyo Proxes R888 tires being pushed till they blister. I can actually put my hand on the drums after a 25 minute track session, and that's even with some left foot braking and lots of trail braking. I can't even touch the front wheels because they are so hot. The glass and rear bumper are my next step to lighten the car, but I haven't had the time to address that yet. I'm even going to a side exit exhaust for the track (my exhaust has a vband clamp just in front of the bend that goes over the beam for this) to eliminate more rearward weight. This is also one of the big reasons why I have devoted so much time to using the KYB GR2 shocks in the rear, they are very light, even when compared to an aluminum body shock and valved pretty well for a lightweight festiva.
Keeping weight off the rear is very important on an FWD road racing car. any weight rearward of the front axle line is counterproductive (as long as there is enough weight to keep the car from tipping forward of coarse, lol). I am planning on using sport bike rear brakes on the rear eventually, with aluminum hubs and hollow 4130 stub axles and possibly a tubular trailing beam (the stock beam is designed quite well and very hard to improve upon). I don't even have a rear sway bar on my car for weight reasons. I control body roll with progressive bump stops. This is much more effective and lighter than a sway bar.
There, you have all my secrets. Lol. Spent a lot of years hiding speed tricks, now I just do this for fun, so I want everyone to be fast. It's more fun to drive with fast cars than to lap slow ones.

[The wrench]

NICE!!

[Festiva_Fred]

SEXY! :thumbright:

[Damkid]

Charlie, what are your thoughts on making a trailing arm made from aluminum? Could potentially be more rigid and lighter then a stock festiva trailing arm

[blkfordsedan]

The glass and rear bumper are my next step to lighten the car, but I haven't had the time to address that yet.

I've been kicking around the same idea....after I get my engine swap completed, of coarse. I have a nice piece of 12" wide X 6' long aluminum channel that I used for a ramp loading my dirt bikes into my pickup. I was thinking of replacing the very heavy steel rear bumper with the aluminum channel and figure out a way to re-attach the bumper cover to it. Then I planned on buying a junkyard rear hatch lid and go to work with a sawzall and hole saw to lighten it as much as possible and install a plexiglass rear window. I think I could eliminate about 50-75Lbs with everything............the steel bumper alone is pretty heavy.

[Advancedynamix]

Also, a lot of dodge cars at the salvage yard have very nice extruded aluminium bumpers re bar. This could be utilized to retain safety and structural support that is provided by the bumper.

Chris, aluminum would be great, but it would have to be replaced quite often on a road coarse car. As aluminum flexes it tends to crack. Aluminum would work great on a drag car though. I plan to either use DOM mild steel or anealed 4130. But it really is difficult to make a beam that functions better than the stock one, while being lighter.