Spider wheel weight??

[tuscan_al]

Can someone tell me the weight of a std spider wheel, with or without tire. 18'' too, thanks.

[rev-erend]

I weighted my 18 inch spiders with the tyre and it was 22lbs.. in contract my 15 inch seac wheels were 16 lbs.

[tuscan_al]

rev-erend said:

I weighted my 18 inch spiders with the tyre and it was 22lbs.. in contract my 15 inch seac wheels were 16 lbs.

22 lbs, wow thats much lighter thn I thought. I was under the impression these are heavy wheels hence why people swap for sp12 etc, I know the have a better et and width, but I was looking to reduce unsprung mass.

At 22lbs they are as light with tires as most alloys at 18'' on their own

[rev-erend]

I have a T350 which had different size tyres front and rear ..

I'm pretty sure the fronts were 22 lbs and the wider rears were 23.5 lbs or there abouts.

[rykev]

Recently weighed my spiders to compare with the OZ superleggeras I have fitted

Front spider with tyre 18.3kg

Front oz with tyre 15.1kg

Couldnt be bothered to do rear but wouldnt expect much difference to fronts.

Would suggest that "reverend" might be weighing in kilos not pounds.

Hope that helps
Kev

[s5tvr]

22lbs with tyres can't be right. From memory the SP12 wheels are 9Kg without tyres and they are 3Kg lighter than the 18" spiders (12Kg's is approx 26lbs).

22 and 23.5 sound more like tyre pressures than wheel weights

[tuscan_al]

did sounds super light to me, and the other figures quoted make more sense. Thats cool the wheels I was looking at are 18kg with tyres, so no saving on the spiders.

Have my eye on some 18'' that are 8.5 kg without tyres, so will prob go for them

[rykev]

Always looking for different wheels so which ones are you thinking about tuscan al

[tuscan_al]

rykev said:

Always looking for different wheels so which ones are you thinking about tuscan al

Mainly Jap stuff,
R34 skyline wheels are good, light and strong, just need ET checking forst, still trying to find out settings of sp12v wheels as they are "optimum" im led to believe..

Mazda too, anything rx7 etc

[rev-erend]

rykev said:

Recently weighed my spiders to compare with the OZ superleggeras I have fitted

Front spider with tyre 18.3kg

Front oz with tyre 15.1kg

Couldnt be bothered to do rear but wouldnt expect much difference to fronts.

Would suggest that "reverend" might be weighing in kilos not pounds.

Hope that helps
Kev

I could easily be mistaken .. it was a while back and I tried to find my posts of the time but could not find them..

Sorry if giving duff info

My mission at the time was just to compare the weights of 15 inch vs 18 inch and to see how spiders looked on a SEAC..

18's much heavier and SEAC looksed aweful with spiders.. IMHO.

[rykev]

Easy mistake to make reverend and i am sure your right that spiders would not suit the SEAC.

[Pupp]

17 inch SP12 front with tyre - 17.1kg
18 rear ditto - 19.9kg

both lighter than the Imolas they replaced

[tuscan_al]

Pupp said:

17 inch SP12 front with tyre - 17.1kg
18 rear ditto - 19.9kg

both lighter than the Imolas they replaced

thats heavier than the jap wheels I'm looking at then. 18'' 235 tyres and 18.6 kg each inc tyres

[Pupp]

tuscan_al said:

Pupp said:

17 inch SP12 front with tyre - 17.1kg
18 rear ditto - 19.9kg

both lighter than the Imolas they replaced

thats heavier than the jap wheels I'm looking at then. 18'' 235 tyres and 18.6 kg each inc tyres

Lighter on a Tuscan of course; extra hole

[tuscan_al]

Pupp said:

tuscan_al said:

Pupp said:

17 inch SP12 front with tyre - 17.1kg
18 rear ditto - 19.9kg

both lighter than the Imolas they replaced

thats heavier than the jap wheels I'm looking at then. 18'' 235 tyres and 18.6 kg each inc tyres

Lighter on a Tuscan of course; extra hole

Eh?? The jap ones are 5 stud too?/

[rev-erend]

rykev said:

Easy mistake to make reverend and i am sure your right that spiders would not suit the SEAC.

Take a look ..

[rykev]

They really dont work at all

[rev-erend]

rykev said:

They really dont work at all

They also are too inset .. the rears fowl the suspension

[Pupp]

tuscan_al said:

Pupp said:

tuscan_al said:

Pupp said:

17 inch SP12 front with tyre - 17.1kg
18 rear ditto - 19.9kg

both lighter than the Imolas they replaced

thats heavier than the jap wheels I'm looking at then. 18'' 235 tyres and 18.6 kg each inc tyres

Lighter on a Tuscan of course; extra hole

Eh?? The jap ones are 5 stud too?/

I meant the weights I quoted were for wheels on a Chimp...