Carbon Fiber Wheel Rims

[CS Wheels]

Hello FSAE competitors,

Composite Solutions Wheels is offering one-piece carbon fiber reinforced plastic wheel rims for FSAE vehicles. At CS Wheels, we understand each Formula SAE team takes a unique approach to vehicle design, weighing the team’s strengths and limitations in every design decision. Wheel design and selection decisions are no different and CS Wheels expands your team’s strengths with the F-Series carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) one-piece wheel rims. The F-Series rims are a bolt-on replacement for most FSAE 2-piece aluminum rims and can be custom-made for your unique wheel center design, improving wheel stiffness, reducing polar moment of inertia, and weight, while allowing your team to focus your strengths on other vehicle systems.

CS Wheels is currently conducting market feasibility testing for the 2013 spring season and would like to know your team’s interest level. Pricing and final product specifications have not been released but initial estimates indicate pricing between $350-$500 per rim. Please visit our website at www.cs-wheels.com (http://www.cs-wheels.com) or send us an email at info@cs-wheels.com (http://info@cs-wheels.com) for more information. If you don’t find the wheel size you prefer in our current product line, please contact us and we can consider your size in the final release.

Colin Snyder
CS Wheels
www.cs-wheels.com (http://www.cs-wheels.com)
info@cs-wheels.com

[JulianH]

Are you planning a 10inch version too?

[Jon Burford]

I too would be interested in a 10 inch version, The ambition would be to use late next year. It's a long term plan

[CS Wheels]

We would love to have the demand to justify adding 10in diameter wheels to the F-Series line. The more interest we see from teams for 10in wheel rims or any other wheel size currently excluded from the product line, the more likely we are to add them to the line.

Colin Snyder
CS Wheels
www.cs-wheels.com (http://www.cs-wheels.com)
info@cs-wheels.com

[Francis Gagné]

This looks very interesting, unfortunately this will probably not meet our budget for this year.

I am a bit surprised there isn't a 6" width offer though. I think there are quite a few team using this width of rim. And this is what we are considering for this year. With the steering geometry, a 6" to 6.5" conversion might prove troublesome depending of the backspacing.

If the manufacturing goes along for the current year, at what time a team could think of receiving the items?

Thank you,

[Dewi Griffiths]

Our team would be very interested in these, also. Let's get a petition together http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif