Carbon Revolution – The world’s first one piece carbon fiber wheel for automotive.
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Carbon Revolution – The world’s first one piece carbon fiber wheel for automotive.
Dear 6 Speed Members,
It is good to be back I am a former sponsor and member.
I wanted to introduce Carbon Revolution, the company that I have recently joined.
After years of research and development, Australian based Carbon Revolution has succeeded in solving one of the last remaining holy grails of the industry - A full one-piece carbon fiber wheel.
The entire wheel structure is molded as a single piece utilizing high end composite materials, currently built in sizes 19x8.5 (15.4lb) & 19x12 (17.9lb) and designed to mount directly on Porsche 911's. The wheels are compatible with factory tire pressure monitoring systems, accept factory center caps and come complete with all required installation hardware.
The wheels are 40% -50% lighter than premium OEM equivalents made from Aluminum. Carbon Revolution has used specialised wheel testing laboratories and testing tracks around the world to ensure that the most rigorous standards imposed by European OEMs have been tested for.
These products are high tech works of art, but then the performance advantages are the best value tuning to be bought for any vehicle. The manufacturing process is highly efficient and controllable. It has merged the rigor of aerospace processes with the efficiency and control of high volume automotive production.
Amongst the team are ex-OEM senior engineers from chassis development and drive train roles, senior manufacturing executives from world leading automotive component suppliers, R&D specialists from leading aircraft manufacturers, industrial composites manufacturing specialists and numerous PhD's with world leading materials and structures knowledge.
Carbon Revolution wheels will improve the performance of your car in many ways. Bolting on a set of lightweight CR-9 wheels is equivalent to:
· Adding horse power to the engine (increased acceleration)
· Increasing the size of the brakes (shorter stopping distances)
· Fitting stickier tires (improved grip)
· Upgrading your suspension (steering and handling improvements)
· Adding more sound insulation to the vehicle (Reduced road noise)
· Reduced vehicle mass (fuel savings)
Carbon Revolution wheels will be sold through select Specialty Tire & Wheel retailers, performance tuners and high end boutique car dealerships worldwide.
This is a remarkable and unique new technology and now there is the opportunity to experience it for yourselves.
I can be contacted directly on bill.koenig@carbonrev.com and you can read more about us at www.carbonrev.com
It is good to be back I am a former sponsor and member.
I wanted to introduce Carbon Revolution, the company that I have recently joined.
After years of research and development, Australian based Carbon Revolution has succeeded in solving one of the last remaining holy grails of the industry - A full one-piece carbon fiber wheel.
The entire wheel structure is molded as a single piece utilizing high end composite materials, currently built in sizes 19x8.5 (15.4lb) & 19x12 (17.9lb) and designed to mount directly on Porsche 911's. The wheels are compatible with factory tire pressure monitoring systems, accept factory center caps and come complete with all required installation hardware.
The wheels are 40% -50% lighter than premium OEM equivalents made from Aluminum. Carbon Revolution has used specialised wheel testing laboratories and testing tracks around the world to ensure that the most rigorous standards imposed by European OEMs have been tested for.
These products are high tech works of art, but then the performance advantages are the best value tuning to be bought for any vehicle. The manufacturing process is highly efficient and controllable. It has merged the rigor of aerospace processes with the efficiency and control of high volume automotive production.
Amongst the team are ex-OEM senior engineers from chassis development and drive train roles, senior manufacturing executives from world leading automotive component suppliers, R&D specialists from leading aircraft manufacturers, industrial composites manufacturing specialists and numerous PhD's with world leading materials and structures knowledge.
Carbon Revolution wheels will improve the performance of your car in many ways. Bolting on a set of lightweight CR-9 wheels is equivalent to:
· Adding horse power to the engine (increased acceleration)
· Increasing the size of the brakes (shorter stopping distances)
· Fitting stickier tires (improved grip)
· Upgrading your suspension (steering and handling improvements)
· Adding more sound insulation to the vehicle (Reduced road noise)
· Reduced vehicle mass (fuel savings)
Carbon Revolution wheels will be sold through select Specialty Tire & Wheel retailers, performance tuners and high end boutique car dealerships worldwide.
This is a remarkable and unique new technology and now there is the opportunity to experience it for yourselves.
I can be contacted directly on bill.koenig@carbonrev.com and you can read more about us at www.carbonrev.com
Last edited by Carbon Revolution Wheels; 07-29-2012 at 07:13 PM.
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Good work for the innovation! Most of rims on the market right now are just CF overlays rather than actual CF material. The weight saving definitely will improve the performance significantly, however I do still have the doubt on the supporting strength. Would be nice if you can actually show the product images. Hope the result will keep up with the expectation. Good Luck!
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Carbon Revolution Wheel Testing
Carbon Revolution prototype
No damage at 60mph
Aluminum wheel
Damaged at only 50mph
Additionally, Carbon Revolution ensures that critical tests are repeated in real-world conditions. Here, a test wheel is driven at a 2.25” high impact strip at increasing speeds up to 60mph (97km/h). Due to the lightweight and durability of the design, no damage is imparted on the Carbon Revolution part. Repeating this test with an Aluminum wheel demonstrated just how impressive this result really is. At a speed of only 50mph, the Aluminum wheel suffered permanent damage and the test was stopped for safety reasons.
See the video on our website at www.carbonrev.com
Under testing tab.
Thanks for the question!
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Our launch sizes are 19x8.5 & 19x12 these sizes would work for F430,R8,Gallardo.
We are currently looking for dealers so feel free to contact me direct at bill.koenig@carbonrev.com
Thanks,
Bill
We are currently looking for dealers so feel free to contact me direct at bill.koenig@carbonrev.com
Thanks,
Bill
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