Lightest wheels in 11" or 12" sizes for rear and 10" or 11" for front?

[Redshift]

Are the BBS wheels lighter than factory wheels, or at least not too much heavier? I don't mind tubbing, but need more grip on track. Any other good alternatives? HRE is too pricey at this time.

Suggestions?

[DJWorm]

Sit down! If you think the HRE's are expensive, you will find that light racing products cost a lot of money. The old racing adage; "how fast do you want to go and how much money do you have to spend?" holds true here, but there a some reasonable alternatives.

1. The lightest wheels that will fit the C5 are DyMag Special Magnesium (C4 offsets). 17x10" Fronts at 8.5#'s and 17x11.5" Rears at 10#'s. The fronts will hold up to a 285x17 tire within the wheel well and will clear the suspension and brake duct. The rears will stick out 1 1/2 - 2" but will clear everything with up to a 335x17 tire. Very rare and hard to get. $3500 per wheel! $14,000 a set!

2. The C5R BBS Magnesiums can be had either in the Single Spindel Nut mount like the C5R or in a 5 bolt street pattern. 10-12 #'s/wheel. Approx $2500/wheel !

3. BBS also sells a street Aluminum wheel, I think the LM (looks like the C5R) or RK model. 14-16#'s/wheel. I'm thinking $1,000/wheel, probably comperable to HRE's

4. Fikse is making a new modular wheel for the Corvette. Callaway used these on his C-12 LeMans car this year. Will be available to the racing public soon.

5. Jongbloed makes a nice Magnesium center with heat treated polished and anodized Aluminum rim modular wheel. 16-18 #'s

6. Kinesis and Circle wheels make nice lite racing wheels 16-18 #'s

7. My best recommendation for value and a relatively strong and lite wheel that looks great is the Complete Custom Wheel from Pirate Racing. CCW's look like the C5R's BBS but in a high polished Aluminum Modular. @ $1,700 for 4. 17-18 #'s. I highly recommend them and you can see them at
www.midatlanticmotorsport.com
Tom Reichel is a good guy and sells some great Hoosiers too.

www.bbs.com
www.kinesismotorsport.com
www.jongbloedwheels.com
www.fikse.com
www.ontrackproducts.com
(Circle Wheels)

There are of course others which have fitments for the C5/Z06:

OZ Racing
Tecnomagnesio
MMW
MWM and others but they are expensive and support is weak and availability scarce due to importing.

An upstart Australian Co. is also just coming on the market. Simmons Wheels thru Group A, Inc in Tuscon.
www.groupawheels.com

There is also Speedline
www.speedline.com

[Dreamin]

CCW... very strong, very light. A lot of C5 guys use them and are very happy with them. In stock Z06 sizes, they are ~2lbs lighter than the stock Z06 wheels (bigger sizes will obviously weigh a litle more). They go for ~$450/wheel.

I've heard of people running all sorts of combos:
10F, 10.5F or 11F with 11.5R or 12R.

I run 10.5F and 12R. No tubbing, but they stick out a little. 11.5's can be made to not stick out at all.

I will post pics of my setup...

Look up the weights for the BBS's here: http://www.wheelweights.net/

And do a search on "CCW" for lots more info.

http://ww.ccwheel.com/

[DJWorm]

One further interesting tidbit. I run the CCW's and have Fikse's for my rain set up.

We found that by moving up a class we didn't have to run the stock rim sizes and could actually rotate the rear 18" CCW with the 305/30x18 Hoosier tire up to the front and it fit nicely under the wheel well. This gave us more bite up front and a shorter side wall and thus stiffer side wall to resist roll. We then droped the back to 17" CCW's and we can run either a 315/35x17 or 335/35x17 tire in the rear. The 315's in the rear with the 305's in the front essentially reduce the static understeer of the Z06 to neutral. The 335's stick out 2" with a C4 offset. We now have faster turn and corner entry and better exit speeds and grip. and the car is more neutral with less push.

[Redshift]

Great info, guys! DJ, what series do you race in? And what part of the country?

I might look into the CCW or possibly BBS for this car...it's actually not mine, its for a project vehicle we are working on (I might use them later).

[Dreamin]

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[BAD 06]

Dreamin, your fronts look like they fit like stock. Even the rears look like they only stick out a half inch or so past stock. And you have a lot more rubber under there. I had no idea that much tire would fit. Very Is it safe to assume that a 11-1/2" rear will stick out the stock amount?

Chad

[DJWorm]

You can actually run the 305/30x18 Hoosiers on the front

[Dreamin]

Yes, I wanted to start conservative and make sure everything fit... my next set of hoosiers will be 305 front, 335 rears.

Bad06: John (head guy of CCW) makes a 11.5" for the rear which does not stick out at all... he calls it a "Texas T1". This wheel will only work with a 315. His "regular" 11.5 fitment works with 315 and 335, but sticks out just a hair. When you're ready for wheels give John a call... he REALLY knows his stuff.

[MXRACER]

Dreamin, those are awsume wheels. I sent you a PM request for more pics.

[TX02Z06]

Originally posted by Dreamin
Front: 18x10.5 CCW track wheels - 275/35/18 hoosier
Rear: 17x12 CCW track wheels - 315/35/17 hooiser (no tub)

Running the same wheels, but with 285/35/18 in front, instead of 275/35/18. Using Kumho's

I would very much like to know if 335/35/17 will work. Keep me posted if possiable.

Thanks