Before I do that, does anyone know of a cheaper option? Or is the goal I am trying to achieve just expensive?
I know why you want to spend this money. All I'm saying is that you don't need to just yet for any sort of road course habit. Work on the driving skills part first.I'm looking for light wheels to pair to a carbon fiber driveshaft and lightweight flywheel. I want to reduce the weight of the rotational mass as much as possible.
Either approach would get you started, but neither of those would be very close to optimum.I see what your saying, right now I'm running a 275 40 r18 in the front and a 305 45 r18 in the rear. Do you think it would be better to use the stock wheels with good tires or use that setup?
I see what your saying, right now I'm running a 275 40 r18 in the front and a 305 45 r18 in the rear. Do you think it would be better to use the stock wheels with good tires or use that setup?
I understand on a very basic level the desire to make every component of your car the optimum application. And the feeling that you get from knowing that's the case, whether or not it is important in real-world use of the vehicle. I bought the Borla SwitchFire exhaust crossover/x-pipe because it incorporated some thinking and physics that appealed to that orientation; not much measurable increase in performance, but a sweet knowledge that it was under the car and doing some useful work.
Seems to me you'll not be happy until you've approached the ideal wheel/tire combination for your use, which I think is entirely based on that satisfying sensation of having got it right. No amount of reason will change that, so go ahead and do your research and acquisition, and enjoy the part of it that makes you feel the way you want to feel. Maybe later on you will develop a genuine need to make changes in pursuit of higher performance, but at this point it's clearly a matter of feel rather than seconds per lap. Invest in that and happiness will follow.
Either approach would get you started, but neither of those would be very close to optimum.
Once you get a little seat time, you'll probably discover that either the OE wheels are too narrow to support the tire size(s) appropriate to the weight of these cars, or that you've got way too much tire size stagger in your other setup.
Without knowing whose tires or what rim widths are in your current setup, the option to improve cornering behavior involving the least work and expense might be to drop the rear tire size down to something like 285/40-18 if that size exists in the same tire make & model as your front tires. 305/35-18 could be another option, though there's a reason you don't see more than 20 mm tire stagger in any of the current handling-oriented V8 ponycars (PP2 and GT350 Mustangs and the V8 1LE Camaros).
Best bang for the buck for road course wheels seems to be with the rotary forged wheels. Stronger and lighter than stock, significantly less expensive than fully forged wheels. Prices have gone up some since I bought a set of Forgestars though (Vorshlag is showing those at $2000/set as well, with a long lead time).
Norm