Turbocad's wheels
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- 2014 Mercedes-Benz GL63 4Matic
IForged - 3 piece wheel, you can probably find them on their website.
fronts are 22x9.5 +32 265/35-22
rears are 22x11 +48 315/30-22
yeah man, iforged 3 piece, specs like chedman said... iforged offers a lot of different designs that can be had in this configuration, just pick your center design & request these specs or alter offset to your liking & depending on your overall final ride height... front lip is 3", rear is 4". the only set of tires that I found to work perfect in this combo with the awd is the yokohama advan st... a sport truck ultra high performance summer tire. even though guys will always yell at me for calling the fx a truck, it still is a good idea to use a sport truck tire for the heavier loads this thing can generate....
this wheel combo is one inch less overall diameter than stock, 29.5" vs stock size of 30.5" overall diameter... front tire is 265/35-22" & rear tire is 315/30-22"
this has a few effects, slightly taller gear ratio for slightly better acceleration, 1/2" lower to the ground & 1/2" add'll clearance to the wheelwells & suspension if you lower it low... slightly less mpg due to the slightly taller overall gear ratio... speedo will be slightly off to, like it wasn't before?
Iforged are pretty good wheels but there overall finish & final machining & polishing details is a bit lacking if you compare them to real top of the line wheels like HRE or asanti's or something... I winded up having to refinish the wheels myself out of the box to make them as perfect as I'd want them to be.
I just picked up a set of HRE's for my minivan & wow, what a difference.... the finish work is just about perfect even on the inner edges of the wheel, pefection that iforged just doesn't give you out of the box at all, out of the box they look better than even the iforged after hours of sanding & smoothing roughly finished machine marks & edges... depends how anal you are & how much you're going to care about these details...
this wheel combo is one inch less overall diameter than stock, 29.5" vs stock size of 30.5" overall diameter... front tire is 265/35-22" & rear tire is 315/30-22"
this has a few effects, slightly taller gear ratio for slightly better acceleration, 1/2" lower to the ground & 1/2" add'll clearance to the wheelwells & suspension if you lower it low... slightly less mpg due to the slightly taller overall gear ratio... speedo will be slightly off to, like it wasn't before?
Iforged are pretty good wheels but there overall finish & final machining & polishing details is a bit lacking if you compare them to real top of the line wheels like HRE or asanti's or something... I winded up having to refinish the wheels myself out of the box to make them as perfect as I'd want them to be.
I just picked up a set of HRE's for my minivan & wow, what a difference.... the finish work is just about perfect even on the inner edges of the wheel, pefection that iforged just doesn't give you out of the box at all, out of the box they look better than even the iforged after hours of sanding & smoothing roughly finished machine marks & edges... depends how anal you are & how much you're going to care about these details...
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- 2014 Mercedes-Benz GL63 4Matic
HRE's for your minivan!
I had a minivan and I think it was running 12" steel wheels with 3 of the wheel covers stolen.my minivans pretty cool, a lot of custom stuff, but I've neglected her big time, haven't driven it since I got my fx really, but now I'm gearing up to get here ready to drive again for a few months this winter while the fx is down for the motor swap. needs tires anyway & I got a good deal on the HRE's
if HRE final finish was the goal then I think all of Iforged cutouts would almost be rejected as blems or defects... there that bad, sloppy cuts & finished corners, gouges & machine cut lines on the inner edges, mismatch milled edges.... I guess HRE's machines are more precise & intricate too & give a much cleaner & more precise cut... think this is why Iforged don't even offer a gloss black, only satin...
Iforged wheels can be hand finished to be about as nice as HRE's though.... just requires a lot of hours hand finishing. considering the fact that the Iforgeds are thousands less for this deficency I still say there worth the money though, they are still good wheels, just that in the end with these wheels you pretty much do get what you pay for...
Iforged wheels can be hand finished to be about as nice as HRE's though.... just requires a lot of hours hand finishing. considering the fact that the Iforgeds are thousands less for this deficency I still say there worth the money though, they are still good wheels, just that in the end with these wheels you pretty much do get what you pay for...
I guess iforged has not been hungry in a while. The finish of my wheels were very good and I did not get the feeling that they were rough or unfinished not perfect but then I am not a wheel expert and do not have a reference point to higher premium wheels for comparison. I guess quality tends to slack when you start making a lot of $$$$$
maybe I'm painting a picture that sounds worse than it really is, not saying that Iforged wheels are bad looking at all or that these are gross defects , most might not even pay much attention or even notice what I'm even talking about, but if you look at the inner face of the edges of all the cut out areas of the wheel center you can see that the inner edges are not as smooth & perfectly finished as the face of the wheel... if you look closely you can see some machine marks & some lines that make them less than perfect, not horrible at all, but the inner face edges are not as perfect as the outer face part, where on a wheel like an HRE the inner face of the cut area is as perfect as the face of the wheel...
were talking minor detail here not anything major... I have also noticed that some are better than others, noticed a few Iforged at a carshow & most were less than perfect, but then there was one lexus turbo car with very nicely finished iforgeds too, think it was a pro built car though... guess theres a chance they may pay less attention to detail on average joe wheels too, & then some orders may get more attention to detail?
gotta find pictures I took of these cut marks I'm talking about....
were talking minor detail here not anything major... I have also noticed that some are better than others, noticed a few Iforged at a carshow & most were less than perfect, but then there was one lexus turbo car with very nicely finished iforgeds too, think it was a pro built car though... guess theres a chance they may pay less attention to detail on average joe wheels too, & then some orders may get more attention to detail?
gotta find pictures I took of these cut marks I'm talking about....
ok, I have a few pictures to show what I'm talking about.... maybe my discription sounds worse than what I'm really talking about but everything I discribed can be seen in these shots... took these as I was smoothing it...
in this next shot you can see the transition from the long spoke to the round curve is off... almost gouged & overcut...
all these vertical lines are like the blade skipped & vibrated as it cut... you can feel each & every one of them....
in this next shot you can see the transition from the long spoke to the round curve is off... almost gouged & overcut...
all these vertical lines are like the blade skipped & vibrated as it cut... you can feel each & every one of them....
wow, those wheels look raw. seems like they didnt do a finish.
Q/A is bad or missed this.
...now they are amazing, after some TLC from turbocad
Q/A is bad or missed this.
...now they are amazing, after some TLC from turbocad
they were powdercoated over this of course when I got them, & yeah, powdercoating may fill some & make the imperfections less obvious to a certain extent. these pictures are after the powdercoating was chemically stripped from the metal, revealing the actual metal...
I did take these shots as I was sanding, the faces are already sanded as you can see all the metal dust, just grabbed a camera & took a few quick shots before I erased these marks by smoothing...
I did take these shots as I was sanding, the faces are already sanded as you can see all the metal dust, just grabbed a camera & took a few quick shots before I erased these marks by smoothing...