- Hi, favorite ramen: chicken,
favorite type of cheese is ghost pepper,
and favorite type of socks
it's whichever ones don't match because matching socks,
ain't nobody got time for that.
I'm not sure about you, but there has never been
a point in my life where I've said to myself,
"You wanna know what I wanna do?
I wanna sit down for an hour and a half
and I wanna watch or match the same black socks
over and over and over again."
It's so stupid!
There are things that are my personal favorite
and not (mumbles) we won't talk about that,
such as hot sauces, cruise roads,
and of course, wheels.
Now, if anyone hasn't caught on yet, my tastes are probably
just a little bit different than most.
Okay, I mean have you seen,
have you seen me before?
I'm already at the disadvantage of being in the Midwest,
which is that last area to get anything cool.
On top of the fact that our seasons are cut in half
by the lovely winter season of (bleep) you!
I'm Alex, Alex.FI on instagram,
and today we're gonna be talking about some of my
personal top five favorite wheels out there,
right now, just to clarify,
cause this changes every 12 minutes, okay?
Let's go.
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Also I'm gonna try to stay away from
the typical picks, like the TE37, The Meister, The RFC,
and all that sort of good stuff.
My goal is just to kinda grow and expand your horizons.
Look a little left and right, all right?
It's 2020, what else could possibly go wrong?
So, with that being said, let's jump into the first wheel,
which for me, would actually be the Forgestar F14.
Now the reason that I love the F14
isn't because it comes in some sort of insane design
or like multi piece, forged look, or crazy thing per say,
it's just that it's everything
that you could want in a wheel, in a wheel.
So a Forgestar F14 is a rotary forge style wheel,
but it's also built specifically around
fitting anything you could possibly imagine.
It's a monoblock rotary forge.
So it can be built, and they build them
to any specification that you pretty much want.
I mean, really any offset end width.
And on top of that,
they have three different profiles for concavity,
meaning that you can get a semi face,
you can get a semi concave,
and then you can get a fully concave
if that's the thing that you're kinda going for.
But they're known for their big break clearance,
they're known for being light weight,
and they're known for being able
to come in a million different colors,
because forgestar offers that product.
I mean you can put 'em on a VW and they look good.
You put 'em on a Lamborghini and they look good.
You put 'em on a WRX, they look good.
They look good because they're a very simple design
that was built primarily for function.
The biggest thing with it is that you'd expect
these to be super expensive, but they're actually not.
You can get most of 'em, for pretty typical setup,
for around 15 to 18 hundred dollars.
Next up would be the Enkei NTO3RR.
Now Enkei and their naming
has gotten very very large recently,
and it's kind of confusing to remember all of them.
But anyway NTO3RR, especially in lower offset options.
I'm a sucker for thin multi spoke style wheels
with a deep mounting pad, it's just like my thing, okay?
This gives most cars a super aggressive race inspired look.
When you look at it, the finishes on the new Enkei wheels
are also pretty bangin'
and they're just a little bit different.
But, they are a little bit more expensive
than most would like them to be,
because they are, I think, right around 2,000 dollars.
The ring that is on the outside, near the lip of the wheel,
also kinda gives it some diversification
from your typical thin spoke style wheel,
because most end up looking
like the TC105X from Weds or WedSport,
which is actually where you see a lot of different
replica wheel companies get their designs from,
which is actually from WedSport.
Fun fact for you.
Now jumping over to a new wheel
would probably be the Rotiform ZMO-M.
These wheels take like really extensive
cues from the racetrack.
In fact, they're probably one of my favorite wheels
to ever come out of Rotiform.
They carry some extreme similarities
to wheels that you'd see in the Grand Prix
or formula racing and there's a reason for that.
The design is exceptionally good
and pressure is distributed
throughout its design really well.
In fact if you go look at Rotiform's idea page,
you'll see that they posted about this wheel
and other wheels like it very specifically
and they've gotten them on
to Formula 1 or Grand Prix cars in the past,
which is actually a really cool accomplishment.
Because of it's design, it's easy to carve out
unnecessary metal to save weight.
The lip is a bit more of an aesthetic thing
that they sell out to the consumer
rather than it is functional,
but it is, overall, a very functional style wheel.
Or maybe you just enjoy cracking your knuckles against metal
when you're cleaning them,
but the design is super slick.
Rotiform has also been introducing
more hex inspired center caps for their wheels,
which hides the lugs.
Which allows you to spend more time focusing
on the design of the wheel
versus ending up just staring at lugs.
But you can actually get away with a size down
in terms of a wheel diameter
if you're needing to run a smaller size setup
with a hex cap and you'll still make it look
like it's an 18, or 19, or 20,
than your typical big ass wheel with the lugs in the middle.
Because some people don't wanna run 20's and 21's
they'd rather run 19's and 20's because of tire size.
Now taking it back to good ol' Japanese wheels,
I will forever have a soft spot for the Work Emotion D9Rs.
Now these wheels for me offer a little bit more
than the typical flashy wheel
because I like looking at things
that are functional and aesthetically pleasing
as much as humanly possible, and if you combine those,
you're pretty much set for life.
Now the reason that I like the D9Rs
is for a couple different reasons.
They're convex, versus concave,
which pretty much just means that the wheels,
the spokes bend backwards versus bend towards the lip,
which would be more of a concave design.
They have a lip on a one piece wheel,
which is very nice to have
because not a lot of one piece wheels
come with lips anymore, which is nice.
And they also have a step lip on the point
where the spoke meets the lip,
which gives it just a touch more design work
and pulls the whole design together.
They're light weight, they look good,
they're on a ton of different platforms.
And they're right in the middle
when it comes down to price and quality.
Especially from worked wheels
because a lot of time worked wheels are pretty, well...
Pretty expensive.
And last, but not least would be
the BBS CH-R two, II, all right?
BBS has always stayed relatively close to itself
when it come to designs,
mostly because it's BBS so why would you need to change
and because they always hate it when I bring it up,
but a lot of their stuff consistently looks very similar.
But the CH-R II is one of my favorite wheels
because it has such a function style wheel look,
while not being ugly in pretty much any single way.
The two piece design just means
that you can get it in pretty much
any styling or size that you need,
but the small floating spokes
is just such a nice touch and a clean look
without making it look overly showy.
Additionally the "motorsport" verbiage
around the center of the wheel with that
nearly 50/50 hardware and the iconic BBS center cap
that's worth its own weight in gold,
is just such a good touch.
But they are three and a half thousand dollars,
which is a bit pricey.
But so is a lot of stuff that I like,
I just never really buy it, I mean.
Great news though, BBS wheels are like
the equivalent of a savings account
because they just don't depreciate.
People love these wheels and others love collecting them,
which is super similar to the Volks scene,
so you can almost always guarantee
that you won't lose that much cash
if you were to part ways with a new set
of BBS multi piece wheels.
But what are your favorite wheels?
Drop 'em `below and let us know.
And of course if you're interested
in any of the wheels listed you can check the links below
and of course if you're not
and you're just looking to get some, you know,
affordable wheels that don't cost an arm and a leg,
or maybe you're just looking to drool.
Check out fitmentindustries.com
where we have wheels, tires, suspension for your build,
BC coils, all that sort of good stuff.
Or you could just check out our gallery.
If you do have an aftermarket car with aftermarket wheels
that would actually help us out the most right now
if you are stuck at home.
Take some pictures of your car, add it to our gallery,
and of course we'll give you a shout out
and we'll love you forever,
and I'll give you a hug when we are allowed to touch.
All right, I'm Alex from Fitment Industries
and we will see you later, peace.