Lips for Blitz 03's

[articdragon192]

False lips? It is still a 3 piece wheel. Only that offset is changed through swapping faces instead of swapping barrels. Cuts down on cost. Cheaper to cast faces with different offsets than to forge barrels with different width.

[atutt]

Originally Posted by articdragon192

False lips? It is still a 3 piece wheel. Only that offset is changed through swapping faces instead of swapping barrels. Cuts down on cost. Cheaper to cast faces with different offsets than to forge barrels with different width.

They probably don't even do that. They probably only had one casting. A casting with the lowest offset. Then just milled it down.

[articdragon192]

Originally Posted by atutt

They probably don't even do that. They probably only had one casting. A casting with the lowest offset. Then just milled it down.

You can only mill down so much due to the depth of the lugnut holes. I'm sure they use at least 2 different molds.

[Chernobyl]

Originally Posted by articdragon192

You can only mill down so much due to the depth of the lugnut holes. I'm sure they use at least 2 different molds.

Or they drill the lugnut holes after they mill down the mounting face.

[articdragon192]

Originally Posted by Chernobyl

Or they drill the lugnut holes after they mill down the mounting face.

Sometimes a different offset mold is cheaper than machine work time. That's what we do for our wheels at least. Time on the machine is more expensive that just having a different mold for the backpad.