Has anyone taken the time to weigh our stock wheels to identify how much heavier or lighter aftermarket wheels are in comparison?

 

not that i know of, but i would like to know this aswell,

you can get the weigh of just the tires from tirerack, i think the sport tires are around ~32 lbs each

 

I'll see if I've got some time tonight and will take off a front and rear wheel and weight the whole thing then.

 

I just got done weighing the wheels and I'm confused...

The front sport wheel and tire weighed 50.8 lbs. The rear sport wheel and tire weighed 50.4 lbs.

I triple checked the weights and even measured myself between each check to verify the scale was on and it didn't fluctuate even a bit. Every single time the weights were as above. I then verified the rear wheels were the wider at 8.5" and the front were the smaller at 7.5"

Tire weights as specified from tirerack are 27 for the front and 28 for the rear.

The front had 32.5 grams of balancing weight and the rear had 12.5

Therefore the front sport wheel weighs 50.8 (whole thing) - 27 (tires) - .07 (weights converted from grams to lbs) = 23.73 lbs

The rear sport wheel weighs 50.4 - 28 - .03 = 22.37 lbs

How an inch narrower front wheel can weigh 1.36 lbs more...I don't know.

 

Probably just more metal in the mounting pad.

 

nice work scooby

 

How many miles do you have on the car? Unless the tires are brand new, the math won't be exact.

My rear tires wore down much quicker than the front, so they'd weigh less with more mileage.

 

1600 miles...no burnouts or crazy driving that would wear the rear lower although that is a good point, I hadn't considered tire wear as a factor.

 

Good to know! Perhaps we can get someone to post this info in the first post of this thread: https://g35driver.com/forums/wheels-...s-offsets.html I think it'd be pretty relevant to a lot of people.

 

^ agreed

 

check the last post in that thread ;-)