If any of you know please shout.. if you dont know and you have a winter setup on the car and weigh your self and then weigh yourself holding the rim and tire. The tire weighs 22lbs so just subtract your weight plus 22lbs and there u go. The weight of the rim. Since i still have my rims on the car and i currently have all my jack stands holding a vehical in the air, I am asking for some help haha. Thanks in advance.

Oh reason for knowing is so when i buy rims i at least keep the weight of the rim the same or less.

 

The stock tires weigh 23 lbs a piece according to tire rack ours are the XL version. The total weight of the rim an tire is 48.5 lbs so 25.5 lbs a piece. Get the oz ultraleggaras they are around 18 lbs a piece.

 

i just checked tire rack today, and it said 22lbs but thanks for the info man.


OH also, i found a 2008 ss/tc with these rims and they appear to fit well, the guy claims that they are 17lbs even tho tire rack doesn have them on the list of fitting.

SSR Type C wheels (17 lbs)

 

Oh, they changed the specs on me so about 26 lbs per rim then. Pretty heavy for forged aluminum if you ask me.

 

26?!?!?! Wow i have oz ultraleggaras coming in tomorrow and going on Saturday. I will be dropping a lot more weight then I first thought.

 

Yep stockers are heavier than I would have thought too. The first time i rotated my tires I was suprised how heavy they are you are saving about 7 lbs per corner so 28 lbs total unless you went with wider heavier tires.

 

well IMO the stockers are pretty damn light for stockers, my winter tires weight more than my stock rims do

 

it may only be 7lbs per corner, but that's also unsprung weight...

 

Yep. It will make a slight difference in gas mileage handling and acceleration.

 

hmm i noticed a difference in all of the above with just a 4lb drop per rim.... i guess it could of been in my head, but going from over 26lbs to just about 18-19lbs... thats gotta be awesome. gas mileage on the highway can see +1 i bet.

 

I weighed a couple last week and I was pretty sure they were around 42-43 lbs for rim and tire. The tires were somewhat worm, but shouldn't make that much difference. Are there different tires available from the factory?

 

I weighed mine and they were only 45 lbs. So if the tire is 22 lbs, then the wheel is 23 lbs, which seems more realistic for a forged 18" wheel (though still heavy).

 

My scale may be off IDK. I weigh 156 lbs and holding the wheel and tire I weigh 204.

 

The reason the stock rims are almost always heavier is because when gm designs them, they are crash worthy. Where as after market is not held up to the same bar. And better materials

 

Also, most people do not realize that forged aluminum is much less porous and much densor and therefore heavier than a equivalent cast aluminum rim.

 

when I shipped my stockers out the weight was 26lbs ea.

I have the ssr type c-rs's on my ss/tc. when I switch there was a big diff. in accel. due to the drop in unsprung weight!

 

I thought I was right about them being 26 lbs each thanks for confirming that.

 

Did that include the box and packaging?

 

Fixed it.

 

Fact: Won't notice a difference in acceleration. You'd need to remove 70+ lbs to notice an acceleration difference....

 

The track times show you a difference...

 

70 pounds of stowed weight maybe. But removing any weight that the engine has to spin... now that seems like less work. If you reduce 5lbs off a crank pulley, thats like having someone say well why didnt you just take out 5lbs from the car . Also removing weight from the corners helps put the weight more towards the middle of the car, which is where gravity wants it to be. Less rotational weight = less work = slightly better gas mileage, and possibly getting that 14.0 to see a 13.9X

 

this isnt true cause the ss\sc wheels r 25lbs ,20something for the tire and toghter with AIR they weigh 60lbs, so im betting that the ss\tc dont weigh 25lbs

does anyone know wat they really weigh....

 

They weigh 26 lbs a piece. Boostking weighed his too when he shipped his out they were 26 lbs a piece. Read the rest of the posts. Forged aluminum is actually pretty dense and the TC wheels are a little wider than the SC wheels. I was supprised at how heavy the wheels and tires were the first time I took them off.

So the air in the tires weighs 12 lbs Get off the drugs. The tire is approx 22 lbs and the wheel is approx 26 lbs total 48 lbs. The air weighs maybe 2 lbs if that. The volume of those low profile tires is very low and we are running only 32 psi in them

 

if the ss\tc wheel & tire 2gher weigh 48.5lbs there is no way the wheel weighs 26lbs

for example: my 17" asa jh8 weighs 20.5lbs and the 225\45\17 BFG g-force sport tire weighs 23lbs and togher with air weigh by tirerack and myself they weighed 49.5lbs. That only 1lb more than the ss\tc rim and tire?

not hating or trying 2 fight i just want the real weight cause i am thinking about buying a set.