Wheel Directory: SSR Professor MS3 18x8.0 +37 / 18x9.0 +37

[Chri5]

Nice ride!

[Kilzod]

Sexy Keep it up

[jimmillion]

@Moto-P Hey moto, do you remember your alignment at the time of this setup?

[timerbob]

Are those SSR wheels your track wheels?

[Wise]

Those fitments look perfect. Not an extreme drop and no poke, just right.

Well done sir. Truly well done.

[Moto-P]

Originally Posted by timerbob

Are those SSR wheels your track wheels?

I do occasionally use them for track or Dynamic Driving Academy. I really don't have a very strict regimen of assigning track wheels, unless I am chasing a trophy or other situations that may require track specific design for the sake of performance or endurance. Most wheels today are perfectly capable of extending duties into light racetrack roles, and damages to any wheels are eminent regardless of it's designs or materials for the most part for any quality wheels made today.

MAny will tout the advantages of weights in grams and ounces, and durability of forged vs cast. Product catalogs are really adamant about stuff like this.

But the bottom line of all this is for durability, it simply has to be strong enough with design and materials used, and not so much in how it was forged or cast, for the most part. And damage will occur if impacted for any wheels where repairs may or may not be feasible regardless of design, as long as forces are high enough, which it is, on most occasions where the wheels do see damages.


As for performance, the 1 second or so advantage any wheels may give for being lighter, simply isn't critical to driving pleasure when trophies in racing is not at stake, and that it is a very small difference when compared to choice of proper wheel size, alignment, suspension setup, driver inconsistencies, and tire compounds, pressures, sizes, profiles, wheel offsets, and other much larger variables that do affect handling greatly.

I am not saying all wheels are perfect down to the cheapest knock off, but you get the point I think. One just has to choose something, and choose it with some knowledge of specification beyond that of listed parameters and numbers on any product catalog or random internet chatter.

:pad dle:


PS. I've broken my share of BBS, SSR, RAYS, and others, as well as cheaper alternatives, and at the same time, won races with $190/each Panasports on my AE86 as well as $890/each custom made TE37 too... So its all about the setup of 100's of other factors, and wheel weights are simply a smaller factor in reality...

[peachsnow]

Can someone please tell me where I can buy those wheels?