Well after a lot of thought about going with the new Roto 9x17's or the PP 9x16's I opted to go with the "stock looking" 16's. It also keeps costs down as I only need two.
Anyhew, there was a bit of discussion about these a while back:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?threadid=289324&perpage=20&pagenumber=1
Well if you look at their
ad and the thread above their wheels are advertised as being "made in Italy"
Not so much!
Just got these in thinking the low pressure casting and made in Italy was a great selling point for a cast wheel and guess what no made in Italy but a big made in china.
Now I'm not a track guy whatsoever so I'm going to keep them and put them through the paces via my spirited street driving.
Another reason I'm going to give them a try is a most of my friends are engineers (as I teach at an engineering university) and they suggest it's not china that's bad it's the specs going there that are. So we will see what kind of specs PP sent to China. I'll reply to the thread if anything catastrophic happens.
A few pics of the box and some stamps on the back of the wheels:
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