oh man, bummer.
well, on the plus side, perhaps you could post a photo of the huge pallet o' happiness to make all of us smile? When you get it, that is.
RPF1 in 14"
Wheels are HERE!
Wheels are SOOO LIGHT!
Just back from SEMA and getting ready to leave for track day tomorrow. And the wheels are here today! Thus, apologies but near ZERO spare time to sit around taking pictures while we try and get as many orders shipped as possible today and tomorrow. Cell phone pics will have to suffice. Now that I see them in person it turns out my early speculation that they would use pad thickness to make the difference for offset was right! The lip is precisely and exactly the same on both offsets! And, despite the early speculation about spokes being "more curved"...in fact the spokes are the same part on both offsets. It would cost too much money to make two entirely different molds...so they don't. Both offsets start life as the same wheel...much like Enkei does with many of the other offsets like 38 and 45mm for 18x9.5 sizes, and RP-F1 15x7 41mm and 35mm where Enkei starts with the same wheel and shaves down the pad to make the 6m difference for the two part numbers. Likewise here, it appears that roughly 6mm is taken from shaving the pad....notice deeper pad cavities on the 19mm wheel here....extra material to move the wheel outward.
And roughly 3mm is taken by offsetting the lug pocket (the 5 inch circular area that contains the lug holes). You can see this in photo below if you look real close. But again, the lip depth and spoke profiles are exactly the same for both offsets.
Wheels are SOOO LIGHT!
Just back from SEMA and getting ready to leave for track day tomorrow. And the wheels are here today! Thus, apologies but near ZERO spare time to sit around taking pictures while we try and get as many orders shipped as possible today and tomorrow. Cell phone pics will have to suffice. Now that I see them in person it turns out my early speculation that they would use pad thickness to make the difference for offset was right! The lip is precisely and exactly the same on both offsets! And, despite the early speculation about spokes being "more curved"...in fact the spokes are the same part on both offsets. It would cost too much money to make two entirely different molds...so they don't. Both offsets start life as the same wheel...much like Enkei does with many of the other offsets like 38 and 45mm for 18x9.5 sizes, and RP-F1 15x7 41mm and 35mm where Enkei starts with the same wheel and shaves down the pad to make the 6m difference for the two part numbers. Likewise here, it appears that roughly 6mm is taken from shaving the pad....notice deeper pad cavities on the 19mm wheel here....extra material to move the wheel outward.
And roughly 3mm is taken by offsetting the lug pocket (the 5 inch circular area that contains the lug holes). You can see this in photo below if you look real close. But again, the lip depth and spoke profiles are exactly the same for both offsets.
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pictures posted here.
http://clubroadster.net/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=25151
http://clubroadster.net/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=25151