Pelican Parts Forums - MORE random pics......

Pelican Parts Forums (http://forums.pelicanparts.com/index.php)

- Off Topic Discussions (http://forums.pelicanparts.com/forumdisplay.php?f=31)

- - MORE random pics...... (http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?t=125505)

Born to be wild with a VW engine...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1161886310.jpg

Quote:

Originally posted by arcsine
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads9/11161731186.jpg

Since I am pretty sure transparent aluminum has not made it past the Star Trek fantasy stage, and assuming this is some polymeric plastic (ie. not glass, eeek), I don't think I would want to hit a speed bump very hard or go around a corner with some velocity with those.

From this other forum:

Quote:

I am the inventor of this increddible new patented wheel design.
original plans involved keeping this secret untill SEMA 06. but pictures have leaked out I am just discovering these pictures online to my suprise today.
To answer some questions, they are streetable, and far stronger than needed, to the point of overkill. I have driven at night some 1000 miles, and they drive great.
look for this product sometime in early 2007 from a large wheel manufacturer.

Sounds like a weel edumacated and professional testimony if ever I heard one.

Also, I found this little blurb:

Quote:

As a Mechanical Engineer, I can say [edited] I know [the inventor] personally, and my brother is workin on the project as well. I just wanted to say that they are using the same thickness lexan that is used at sea world for all of the clear tanks. If a 4x8+ panel can withstand thousands of pounds of water pressure, I really dont think a 20" circular piece will have any problems supporting the forces applied while driving.

Other issues were raised by forum readers, such as:
... the load placed on the Lexan by water versus cornering and radial loads generated ... Factor in elements such as temperature changes, impacts, stress risers created by the holes needed to accommodate the assembly fasteners, exposure to UV and chemicals and you've got two entirely different envirmonments.

BVD your 914 project deserves a thread of its own, looks like it will be a serious piece of kit when its finished.

This is what sold me on the wheels, from the above linked forum. This guy must have a marketing degree and is brilliantly speaking to his audience, or I hope so.

"OK THIS IS NOT DMONEY (ed: the wheel inventor) ITS HIS HOMIE AND AS FOR THIS LEXAN CRAP I KEEP HEARING ABOUT WHO CARES THESE WHEELS I SEEN PERSONALY AND TEST DROVE THE STRENTH OF THEM IS REDICULOUS... WOW AND HEAT.. MELTING THEM THIS IS FUNNY..LOL just wait and you will see what comes. you have no idea what Dmoney has coming 4 this wheel world. all u got a pic of is a leaked pic not the dope pics we took not the videos either. I 'm just posting her to vouch and bACK THIS PRODUCT 100% and yes the car in the pics has no BBk but looks sick as all hell rolling i thing dmoney broke like 500 necks when he was driving it. woo wee people were starring. then when he roasts the tires it looks sick with the smoke looks cool. just my 2 cents and for potholes and railroad tracks these wheels eat them for breakfast.."

Well.... as long as he "bACK THIS PRODUCT 100%", who am I to argue?

and DMONEY broke like 500 necks....

LOL. forget snakes on a plane.... this is see-through dubs yo.

i think DMONEY is getting sued for all those broken necks. It's am ambulance chaser's feeding frenzy!

them wheels don't look all that cool anyway, no matter how strong they are...they look like plastic in light, and look plain dark at night

might be a different story if you put spinners on both sides of the lexan though

i know , i should be in the rice business, the force is strong in me... :D

Quote:

Originally posted by jorian
and DMONEY broke like 500 necks....

Oh, man, that's getting into Chuck Norris territory... before lunchtime.

I gotta meet Stijn some day.
Drug & booze addled freakhttp://www.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/ace.gif .......or 110 lb pasty nerd?

Great posts :cool:

Quote:

Originally posted by Craig911
I gotta meet Stijn some day.
Drug & booze addled freakhttp://www.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/ace.gif .......or 110 lb pasty nerd?

Great posts :cool:

:D between a blackadder quote and the avatar, there's always something to laugh at.

"i have a cunning plan...." LOL

I'm definately not 110 lb any more, i left that range some years ago...
now it's more like 150, after my morning dump, and my doc says i have a fatty liver, so i'm on a halfassed detox right now... and it's making me edgy

Quote:

Originally posted by Steve PH
BVD your 914 project deserves a thread of its own, looks like it will be a serious piece of kit when its finished.

Thanks, see my blog on the 914 club for more info

http://www.914club.com/bbs2/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=337&

And here on PP

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?threadid=258620

Quote:

Racer that engine is DEAD SEXY! How many ponies is that gonna kick out?

It was tuned to 267 on the dyno, tuned down from 300 to get a better torque line.

Think about it, if the space race and satellite insertion has taught us nothing else, it certainly is hard just to go up.