ummm ya, carbon fiber barrel. only ones i have seen. hit link and look at middle of page.

http://www.europeancarweb.com/news/0...e/wheels2.html

if they weren't over $2k a piece, i might get them, lol.

 

wow thats fawking expensive. It might look really cool on a black CGT/Ferrari/anything exotic that is black and has yellow calipers and accents...

But concerning the barrel...i dont think the barrel is all CF. It probably has a metal barrel of some sort with cf laid on top of it?

 

not 100% sure, but they do list them as a cf barrel. looking at the cost and the type of cars it is designed for, i would believe it! i'm sure you could get the spokes any color you wanted.

 

http://www.dymag.com/index2_e.html

website, looks like dream central!

 

im still skeptical about the cf barrel part. Id like to see it withstand hundreds of ft/lbs of torque when you accellerate...CF is strong..but not that strong.

They have some pretty nice looking wheels though. The price for those akes volks look like cheap stuff....

 

I was about to mention that. CF is strong and flexible but I'm not so sure you want the flexible part when driving hard. There's a reason companies don't make CF wheels.

 

I've never actually seen any car running these in real life. Wonder how many (few) sets they've actually sold.

 

Think that guys link says it all........ Parr Porsche UK said:
The wheels are worth about 40 BHP on the 996 GT3 RS. The “power saving” was worth many hundreds of thousands of Pounds (Sterling) of engine development to extract the same amount of power reliably from the engine.

 

Koenigsegg has CF wheels.

 

that pretty much says it all right there as to their strength and durability. if they trust them to 250mph, i suppose i could, lol.

 

i've seen these carbon barrelled wheels at car shows, i wouldn't recommend, some of them were bent just from the posts they were laying on, one pot hole and that ish is garbage.

 

ignorance ftl...people think these wheels' CF is the same **** most of us dress up our exteriors and engine bays with - get that out of your head!