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? Lightweight lug nuts ?

Sounds pretty cheap for forged nuts. Those things are light as hell too, but not neccessary at all unless you're hardcore into racing.
 
Well Personally I didn't know that there was such thing as "Light Weight" lug nuts. :nonono: If you're that worried about weight then I'm pretty sure the very last thing I would do is try to get some "Light Weight" lug nuts :laugh:
 
SVTPHAT said:
Well Personally I didn't know that there was such thing as "Light Weight" lug nuts. :nonono: If you're that worried about weight then I'm pretty sure the very last thing I would do is try to get some "Light Weight" lug nuts :laugh:
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theres the fact that ever one pound of rotating mass is equal to 7 pounds of someother kind mass basicly meaning for every 1 pound you save in light weight wheels tire,lug nuts what ever it like saving a total of 7 pound of dead weight.

works out something like

stock e1 16" wheels weight 19.5 lbs

19.5 lbs x 4 = 78 lbs x 7 lbs of rotating mass = 546 of mass weight

the oz 17" supperleggerezza /ultraleggera wheels weight about

16.4 lbs x 4 = 65.6 lbs x 7 lbs of rotating mass = 459.2 of mass weight

if your really hardcore oz make a 14 lbs 15" supperleggera wheel

14 lbs x 4 = 56lbs x 7 lbs of rotating mass = 392 lbs of mass weoght

lighter is faster. light weight lug nut wont make a night and day performance light weight wheels will. this formula doesn't factor in the weight or the tires and the fact that different sizes have different weight but you get an idea of the whole lighter weight is faster. however the light weight wheel are weaker in strength and are sure to bent hiting a good sized pot hole.

this can also be used to show dumb a$$es that the heavy chromed out 18 inch wheels which weight 25-30 lbs each is surely killing any performance edge the car once had.

for the record 17" konig gt-r with a phat daddy 3 inch polished lip only weight in at an ironic 19.5 lbs each

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Exactly. Switching to lightweight lugnuts could save about a pound and a half (or more) in actual weight which would translate into an equivalent savings of around ten pounds of cabin weight.

Whether its worth an extra $10 to save the equivalent of 10 pounds is debateable.
 
I call BS. The lug nuts are so close to the centre of the wheel that they can hardly be called rotating mass. The rotating mass deal needs to consider the radius of the mass (how far from centre of rotation).
Lugs nuts = Lug nuts for mine. If they look cool though... :)
 
Yeah, why the helll did this get bumped to Classifieds? When I saw it was bumped, I assumed it was sent to Tires and Wheels - I never even noticed it was moved to Classified. Personally, I think a general question about lightweight lug nuts shuld be in the general interest section, but what do I know?
 
10 lbs of cabin weight loss is me after my coffee enduced 9:30 trip dropping the kids off at the pool. I'd go for sturdy wheel securing lugs over any "weight loss." LOL!

-Andy
 
Jeb Hoge said:
Yeah, I was wondering what the weight savings of a rim flying off at .6g on a ramp works out to.
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How do yo know that these lightweight forged lug nuts are more prone to failure than ordinary lug nuts? Or do you know something about the quality control of this company that I don;t know about?
 
Some people should work for NASA insted of showing off their Einstein selfs on the CEG forums....:laugh:
 
I don't know if they still are, but Factory Lug nuts from Porsche in the 80's were made of Aluminum.

Nobody that did serious racing used them. They switched to stell lugnuts for the same reason that nobody used the Cast Phone Dial wheels from the 944 with Race tires. They had a tendancy to break under high corner loads.
 
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