Corvette Wheels

Corvette Rims

When it is time to upgrade, new Corvette Wheels is a good place to start. There’s a wide variety of Corvet Wheels for sale in styles and designs to create the look you desire.

One-piece (or “cast”) rims are light, strong and attractive. Two- and three-piece rims are attractive and offer a lower cost option.

Here are two article to help you in choosing which rim is best for you:
1. Steel or Alloy Wheels Which is Best
2. Custom Rims: Help In Choosing

Note: Although technically the term “rim” refers to the outer portion of a wheel only, I use the word to refer to the wheels upon which your ires are mounted.

Multi-Piece Rims

Are comprised of two or three components. These pieces are machine-assembled to produce the finished wheel. There are a number of different methods used to produce multi-piece wheels.

Wheel centers are cast or forged while the rim sections are often spun from disks of aluminum.

Using a spun rim sections allows for manufacturing custom wheels for special applications which would not be available otherwise.

After they are constructed, the rim sectins of a multi-piece wheel are bolted to the center.

In the early 1970s three-piece wheels were developed for racing. Three-piece wheels are most often used in 17-inch diameter sizes and larger.

The three-piece wheel offers a wider range of application than a two-piece wheel. But two-piece wheels are more common in the marketplace because of their lower cost compared to a three-piece.

Alloy RIms

Alloy rims can be cast or forged. Most brands use a “gravity cast” method. But “low pressure” casting produces a wheel that is denser and stronger than one that is gravity cast.

Forging materials include steel, aluminum and magnesium.

While forged alloy wheels are more expensive to buy than multi-piece wheels, the result is a strong, durable, lightweight rim for your Corvette.

The array of rim styles and designs available is truly extraordinary. You can find Corvette rims that are chromed; polished; and black, silver, red, blue, yellow, green-, or grey-painted.

One of the most popular brands today (and our favorite) is BBS.

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BBS are well known for their appeal to racing enthusiast, both profession and novice.

But 70% of their business is supplying original equipment rims to more than two dozen automakers, including the likes of Ferrari, Porsche, BMW, Jaguar and the high-performance AMG vehicles from Mercedes-Benz.

But BBS also is in the aftermarket business and thus the 2007 introduction of its BBS Gold line RS-GT wheels for the latest generation of the Chevrolet Corvette.

Here’s what Craig Donnelly, director of technical sales for Braselton, Ga., based BBS USA has to say:

“The Corvette is the ideal showcase for BBS engineering expertise because of its amazing acceleration and grip.”

Here’s more of what Donnelly has to say:

“BBS Gold wheels have to be good to justify their price — $900 each for the RS978 front wheels and $1,290 apiece for the RS979 rears.”

Donnelly explained that because of its supplier status,

“we only do things at that level.”

“Corners are not cut for the aftermarket, he stresses. “There’s no secondary level. It takes longer and costs more, but that’s the way it’s done.”

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