5zigen Wheel Quality?

[Scrymerr]

What? You want me to reveal my sources now? Ok. A source at AME Wheels. Enkei Japan makes AME wheels, so Enkei knows what their talking about when they disclose this type of information.
Even for a road car that you take to the road course that isn't a full-on race car like you see on TV. Hypothetically, say you see a max of a 5% expansion (extremely generous) in diameter on just your daily driver you take to the track; it still is a considerable amount of stress put on the wheel design.
It's too bad most people don't have a different view of wheels besides being a piece of circular-shaped metal.

Sorry, I don't believe that a wheel will see anywhere CLOSE to even 5% expansion in diameter! Do you know how much the wheel would have to heat up to expand that much?

 

[Ludachris]

So, I take it that Enkei and Kosei, if I can get my handle on 5x112, are a better choice right?

In racing, you tend to go with what is proven. On the street, popularity doesn't mean crap. But if I'm choosing a wheel and I have 2 choices, I'd lean towards what is used more in motorsports - but that's mostly because I track my car more than I drive it on the street and I want good quality. I'll do other research as well, but that's usually a good way to gauge if a product can hold up under extreme conditions.

I don't dispute Dan's statement that more research is needed, but I see nothing wrong with going with products used widely in motorsports over those that are not. I always feel real world data is just as valuable as what you find on paper, if not more. Whether you want to base your decision based on only what "I've" seen, now that's a different story. I'd tell you to get as much feedback from others as possible, but you may not find many other people in the DSM world that track their cars as you would in other enthusiast forums for other types of cars (like the WRX, EVO, Miata, etc). So finding feedback on strong wheels may be difficult here. There just isn't a large enough pool of DSM track car owners to get good data from (unfortunately).

 

[las_vegaslazer]

I have a set of 5zigen fireball rims on my 1g. They are about 9 years old and have been on a lot of cars. They are very light 17X7.5 14lb each. There is nothing wrong with them but the coating is starting to come of the inside of 2 of them. There are pics of the rims here if you want to see them http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/handling-tech/303257-ups-guy-droped-off-my-ksports.html

 

[fatherbubble]

Beau you forgot to mention how you bent your wheels and cracked the lip. He went OVER a curb on the freeway going approx 80mph and only messed up 2 of the rims (seems strong to me) . I do agree with him that cast wheels are not as strong as forged but FN01RC are proven wheels.

I had a 98 camaro an wrecked it on the interstate be hitting the curb on the bridge side. I blew out both driver side tires an bent the factory rims. They didn't crack or break. Thats cheap factory rims. Now I think there not strong if they crack that easily. Also i was only doing about 100 or so. when I smashed it.