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  1. 11-28-2005, 02:42 PM #1
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    Default how wheels are made, VERY cool!

    http://www.jrponline.com/downloads/mm/rays.wmv
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    6:17 video...cool!

    Looks like the plant is in Oaklahoma?
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    Ever heard of ray's wheels though???
    BBS would have been more exciting, but it must be pretty much the same idea!
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    tiiight



    No wonder there so expensive
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    nice link.. i have a hard time believing their process for cast wheels could make them as strong as forged.. but then again what do i know
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    Nice video, I think they are made in China the CNC machine screen controls aren't in English.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sharkman540i
    Ever heard of ray's wheels though???
    BBS would have been more exciting, but it must be pretty much the same idea!
    They are Japanese, not sure if they have manufacturing elsewhere in Asia though. http://www.rayswheels.co.jp

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    yeah you're right genphreak, Japan checked their website, they got some good looking wheels...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Incantation
    nice link.. i have a hard time believing their process for cast wheels could make them as strong as forged.. but then again what do i know
    I thought the narrator said "with the same structure as forged wheels" which I took to mean shape, vice strength. I have a hard time believing a cast wheel, even if shot peened, would be stronger or even as strong as a simliarly configured, forged heat-treated wheel as seen in the vid.

    Chris, good find! Better than Mark Tewkesberry and his big sweaters on "How It's Made"!

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    I think they are stronger then welded rims, that is 2 peace rims.
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