Saturday, July 26, 2008

Car Modifying 103 - Wheels

Welcome to Car Modifying 103: Today's topic is:

Wheel / Rim

The equivalent of wearing a "I f**ked your boyfriend/girlfriend" T-Shirt. Very flashy sometimes, and useless mostly. A good set of wheels will set you back quite alot, and if they're aluminium alloy, they're even costly.

But you'd still want one of these shiny babies. For aesthetic reason of course

In the older days wheels are made from machine-pressed steel, which is heavy, and not good looking, and not good when dissapating heat. Only the top of the breed sports car have the alloys, but back then its not very good either, just abit better.

Fast forward to modern day, cheap passenger cars are already fitted with aluminium alloy wheels, but sometimes, it isn't cool enough to show that you're young and rebellious. Like our Sarawakian young men demonstrate(picture below):

Dis' zis ma rad(ride)muthaf**ka

Scientifically speaking, your engine turns the wheel, the less weight it has to push/lug/force to move, the better your car's performance, and it may save some precious black gold(petrol).

I don't recommend the most expensive alloy wheels in the market, simply because it isn't worth it, and they're quite fragile. C'mon, if you can lift the rim with one finger and no effort, you think this can withstand Malaysian PotHole(TM) ?

Anyway, pick the one you like the most, and if possible, lighter than the standard one, if possible. 

Look around for deals, before you know it you'll have a nice set of sporty, rebelious looking rim, with no rubber, which is going to be covered in Car Modifying 104

To Be Continued....in seconds/minutes/hours/days/weeks/months/years/centuries/mellenium