Imola Ghost

just curious, but can you buy lighter weight lug nuts and would you want to?

paul_858

lug bolts you mean? yes... porsche often uses titanium bolts

Imola Ghost

can u buy them somewhere

Lenie

Why would you want to? Lighter wheels are more important than lighter lug nuts.

Lenie

Isn't that more for strength than saving weight? How much weight-saving can be achieved with lugs?

moribundman

Well, you could drive in the buff and save some weight! :-P

angryswede

20 titanium lugs would probably weigh as much as maybe 5 normal ones if not closer to 3 or 4.

I have a titanium axle on my motocross bike and it saved about 1.2 lbs or so.

quattrofrog

its all anodized blue to match the bike. It does reduce the weight which is a bonus. But the bike's not gonna stress it as much as a car, so aluminum is not exactly ideal, Ti is quite expensive and is difficult to work with I think. I think it might also be a restricted material, not sure tho.

that was back in my mtn biking days.

-Phil

AudiWhirled

a miniscule amount of rotational inertial. use anti-sieze compound when titanium is in contact with other metals, so's it doesn't "cold-weld". cost vs. weight savings is very high. address other weight saving measures first. super-duper wheels probably have a better ratio of $/lb. then there are the free ones, like pulling all the seats except the pilot's.

coolHluke

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