NOR-CAL General Chat.

[Toodaloo]

Fifteen 52s or a used set of BBS? Opinions please [emoji106]


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Bbs. I'm biased though...

[e30tru]

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[BlackbirdM3]

BBS wheels. Stronger, lighter and far better looking. That said, PITA to keep clean.

Will

[DaWildBeast]

Im thinking BBS I do like the fifteen52 but why not both haha?

[BlackbirdM3]

Had a cool view of SF Saturday night.



Will

[sonomabimmers]

^^^ awesome shots

[e30tru]

Im thinking BBS I do like the fifteen52 but why not both haha?

In my case, I would like to have money for food as well, not just wheels lol


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[BlackbirdM3]

Had a cool view of SF Saturday night.



Will

Thanks. I shot those from the deck of the 60 foot Schooner Mayan. We were on our way back from Alameda after racing the Master Mariners Race earlier in the day. (We won our class in pretty thrilling race to the finish. It was a come from very far behind to win finish.)
At the line...


We were blown away that we won as we nearly ended up in a 3 way mess at the last buoy. One boat hit the buoy (several times) another was paying attention to them and failed to notice Mayan ripping along (with the right of way) and rather than tacking and heading for the finish line, they decided they were going to try and slip in front of us... Holy SHIT! 70K lbs of sailboat doesn't turn on a dime, especially when the centerboard is most of the way up, we are trimmed for going one direction and the rudder is a little on the small side for the boat. We avoided contact but fouled the mainsail boom in the backstay (the cable that supports the mast from the back of the boat) so to clear that we had to do a 360... and in doing so we fouled the jib in the forestay (holds the masts up from the front of the boat) so we had to do another. We got things sorted out and made for the finish line cussing out the boat that cut us off the whole way. The 3 boats crossed the finish line within 2 seconds of each other. We were pretty thrilled to pull that one off.

The finish from the committee boat, Mayan in the foreground, Ruby, and Elizabeth Muir.


Will

[Cabriolet]

I had fifteen52s on my m3. they were junk.
heavy and poorly balanced. ill never buy another set

[e30tru]

I had fifteen52s on my m3. they were junk.
heavy and poorly balanced. ill never buy another set

Forged or cast?


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[CarsonE30]

Fifteen52's are my least favorite wheel company, I don't understand the cost or the appeal, they all look like lego's.

[Cabriolet]

Forged or cast?

cast. if you are going forged get a real brand. fifteen52s are too heavy and not made in the US or better

[e30tru]

For sure. Sounds like I was close to making a mistake [emoji28]


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[Toodaloo]

NOR-CAL General Chat.

I would have to agree. Their wheels looks great on some cars, but personally I'm not a fan of them on the e30. Same with the Fatlace/ame wheels. They just don't seem to flow with the car 100% to my taste like an RS would.
Glad I finally picked up a set of RS's again.

[sonomabimmers]

Nice to hear I'm not the only one that thinks about fifteen52's this way.


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