Lightweight Lug Nuts

[Lou Rachwitz]

Not that I'm in the market for these, but I was lurking on eBay and saw these? Would they be strong enough? Is it safe running Aluminum Lug Nuts?

Aluminum Lug Nuts

[VegasRacer]

You gotta use steel lugs if you want to pass tech on the race track.

[Lou Rachwitz]

Steel lugs with Aluminum nuts are ok?

[Travis Neff]

Lou,

You should be more concerned with the new donut policy going into affect at work. The horror!

[Howard Agency]

There once was a man named Rachwitz,
who tried all the things that might fitz.
Aluminum Nuts?
He must be nucking futz,
I can't wait to hear one from Slits.

[Lou Rachwitz]

Originally posted by Travis Neff
Lou,

You should be more concerned with the new donut policy going into affect at work. The horror!

I'm bring my own from now on anyway. what really pisses me off is the low fat milk is now 1%.

[Lou Rachwitz]

Originally posted by Howard Agency
There once was a man named Rachwitz,
who tried all the things that might fitz.
Aluminum Nuts?
He must be nucking futz,
I can't wait to hear one from Slits.

Actually, I was thinking about Trekker for these.

[Dave at Pelican Parts]

The stock closed-end lug nuts on many 911s are aluminum. They deform pretty easily, it's common to see them where the hex at the outer end is rotated 5-15 degrees from the hex at the inboard end...

Steel open-ended ones are required by many racing sanctioning bodies. Open-ended aluminum might work for some (you can check the thread engagement easily)... I wouldn't bother, though--those bright blue things look to be screaming "STEAL ME!!!"

--DD

[Scrappy]

Oh Lou Oh Lou,
Why are you nutz so blue?
Have you blewtwisted them into a stew?

Your wheels are round,
You can watch them as the pass you on the ground.

Oh Lou, Oh Lou
Now your balls are really blue.

[The cap'n]

Aluminum lug nuts are fine, and have been used on 911s since 1966 or so. HOWEVER, although the ones in the picture are advertized as "FITS ON ALL IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC VEHICLES THAT USE NUTS WITH 14x1.50 THREAD SIZE !", you need to look at the next line down:"(EX: PORSCHE from 1965 to 1997)" (Should read "1953-1997".) They also don't fit Audis or any other VW products. VW/Audi, Mercedes, and Porsche use a "ball" seat, and these are tapered like a BMW or Volvo. Kinda cuts the application list down, doesn't it? A HUJGE percentage of imported cars use 12mm studs or bolts, further cutting the list. Form over function, if I ever saw it! The Cap'n

[Acox914]

dude... get OEM porsche Aluminum nuts or open end steel nuts (what i run) and BTW... those nuts are blue.... AND ARE CONE SEAT! BAD!!!!

[Joe Bob]

Check the azzdragger board for alloy nuts that split and crack....never again. Open steel nutz fer me....

HEY CAP'N....are my fargin axles READY YET????

[Lou Rachwitz]

Originally posted by Acox914
dude... get OEM porsche Aluminum nuts or open end steel nuts (what i run) and BTW... those nuts are blue.... AND ARE CONE SEAT! BAD!!!!

I'm not looking to buy any, actually I think they look a little too rice for me, but, I was curious what people "in the know" would think.

[Eric_Shea]

Actually, I was thinking about Trekker for these.

The Depot sells aluminum kahonas?

[Acox914]

ROTFL....

[Eric_Shea]

BTW... that "SUCKS" Slits. Howie is spanking you at your own (gay poet laureate) game

[Joe Bob]

Originally posted by Eric_Shea
BTW... that "SUCKS" Slits. Howie is spanking you at your own (gay poet laureate) game

Not that being GAY is a BAD thing.....

[Eric_Shea]

Oh hell no... it's the poet laureate thing that freaks me out

[Scrappy]

Gad, I'm being bagged by a gubermint lacky who has no purpose in life and a circumcized clone of Joseph Smith who's an assdragging poser.

[turboman808]

I ordered a set but they haven't shown up yet. Seems to have been a honest mistake. Guy sent them out today.

I wanted them because they are open end.