Here is the link to this company that makes custom carbon fiber wheels with magnesium centers in any design you want. They are a little pricey but they have just about every size you need and I can't imagine how light they would be.

http://www.autovelocityinc.com/wheels.htm

I found the ad for the wheels in the new products section of PHR, it says the 18 x 10.5 weighs about 8 pounds.

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those are cool as hell. that would be something unique and awesome .

I'd be pimpin' for weeks to pay for those suckers....They are cool!

Those are definitely interesting but I wouldn't want to be the first to try them out.

Here's a wheel/tire combo that's pretty interesting too.
http://www.sportbilen.se/e_index.php...news.php?id=89

Is carbon fiber strong enough to be used as a wheel?

CF is stronger than aluminum.

A concern with the ricers putting CF hoods on their cars is that in a crash the hood is so strong that it won't crumple up like the rest of the car, could pose a big safety hazard.

Just to give you an idea.

a set wrapped in rubber is more than what most of us paid for our thirdgens ..........such a cool idea, but I doubt Ill ever see a set in person good find

GM is running carbon fiber wheels on their CTS-V race car and plan to put them on the production CTS-V in a few years. They have been around for a few years I guess there just starting to hit the market for street cars.

wow... so cool.

those dont look half bad.

I saw those wheels on nsxprime a couple months ago theyre sweet. The guy actually helped design them or sell them or something like that http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46703

At about $3000 per wheel, a set wrapped in rubber is more than many 4th-gen owners paid

That has more to do with engineering than the materials chosen. The factory hoods are specifically designed to have weak spots so that they will fold. Most (all?) aftermarket hoods don't have this type of weak zone engineered into the design.

i thought that cf was just more rigid than aluminum, but it was actually weaker. doesn't carbon fiber shatter under impact? i'd be afraid to be driving down the road, hit a big pothole, and have my $3,000 rim shatter.

If I read the pricing right, a bare set of 17x9.5" wheels is almost $6,000? ouch.

hey thanks for the link , it answered my ?'s about hitting a pothole. They would deffy be cool to get if you raced . i wonder if they have any with a lip on them . Like in an offest for our cars .Those offests i see are all fwd offsets , with no lip i mean .

Here's a quote from the NSX page..

"they have passed every D.O.T. test including
(a) Radial Fatigue Standard test is 2.5 million cycles ours passed 5 million
(b) Cornering Fatigue 1.2 million cycles
(c) Radial impact testing this is the one that everyone worries about.. our wheel exceeded the imapct test by 60KG which has never been done before.
(d) was a repeat of A, B, C with low profile tire... this test not required by JWL or BSAU
(e) additional impact on unsupported inner flange without tire ( no wheel has ever passed this before our wheel)
(f) CASS test enviormental chamber designed to add age to the wheel
(g) repaet A, B, C on wheel post CASS test

after all testing the wheel was pressure tested to assure no micro cracks

This wheel compared to the Z06 wheel was twice as strong and held up better in impact testing then the Z06 wheels and we did it without the center spokes we also did all the same testing once again with only 1 support bolt in each spoke rather then the normal 2
People should realize how strong carbon fiber is... look at all the aircraft using this stuff.... unlike Alum this does not have a memory if you bend alum one time it looses more then half of its strenght..... I guess what I am saying after we tested these wheels, I do not like driving on any other wheels."