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- Hey, what's going on guys?
Welcome back to Wheel Talk, I'm Andrew.
We got a brand new episode for you
and an absolutely killer wheel.
This is the ESR ES1-T, so shout-out to ESR
for sending us this sample wheel.
We are really excited to unbox this thing.
We all peeked in it and our jaws dropped on the floor.
It's probably the most killer looking wheel
that we've had come past the shop.
It's a three piece forged wheel,
it's one of 19 different face styles that they have
from their new three piece lineup, so it's pretty cool.
Now, we looked at a couple other ones
but we were reading the comments
and after dropping a couple marketing photos
and some things on our story,
everyone's been really excited to see this one
so here it is.
We are gonna give you the lowdown,
everything you need top know about this wheel.
Now, right off the bat when you look at it,
of course, it's like a showstopper wheel.
I would call this like a show wheel,
so if you have like a crazy show car
that's what it looks like to me.
Now everything is 100% customizable on this wheel
so down to the hardware, the face color,
the finish, width, size, offset,
and even the lip and the lip material,
it's all custom just to give you guys a heads up.
So, with that comes a five to seven week wait time
so it's one of those things if you're
looking to build a set of wheels
and you're in a crunch time for a show,
I wouldn't recommend doing something like that.
Most people that are building custom wheels,
they know that it takes a little bit longer.
So price point with this one,
it's gonna be a little bit higher 'cause you're building it.
It's all custom like I said,
they're not stocking anything on a shelf
so it's all built to order.
You're the artist, you pick the colors,
you rock this thing out just how you want to
so this is your time to rock and roll,
shine, build your dream wheel.
So I'm gonna break it down into different pieces,
give you guys the scoop on everything else
and tell you something extra special
that ESR actually does with their wheels
that I don't think a lot of the
other wheel manufacturers are doing.
If we start with the lip of this, you have two options.
So flat lip or step lip, so you pick your choice.
Now this one actually has a carbon fiber wrapped on it,
it's a hand-wrapped carbon fiber
and it looks absolutely beautiful.
So if you look in here, we'll get you some nice closeups,
the step lip style, you can see that nice, beautiful weave.
This one I wanna say was about a 20 by 13.
Not quite sure of the offset, I wasn't 100% sure,
but this thing has just over a five inch lip
so absolutely massive.
Killer looking carbon fiber pattern on it
and one thing I wanna point out too,
I'll show you where it kind of wraps in.
If you're familiar with carbon fiber work,
sometimes you see the weave
and then where it kind of ends off the side of the part,
it look really nice here.
You see a nice weave all the way across the top
and just as it folds over the lip of the wheel here,
it just kind of fades into that black
that they have painted on the back of the lip here,
so just really good attention to detail in the carbon fiber.
It's all done in the USA, it's all customizable as well,
you don't have to just go with the standard black.
They can do red, they can do blue,
they can even do a honeycomb
which I imagine is maybe that yellow and black
or maybe where they mix two colors
and you get that dual color kind of laid down
so plenty of options for the carbon fiber too
which is pretty exciting to be able to build.
It's T661 aerospace aluminum, the whole entire wheel,
and then that carbon fiber,
like I said, it's all hand-laid on here,
done at the ESR factory so that's pretty rad.
So now that we're done with the lip
if we jump into the hardware here,
this is something that pretty cool.
This particular wheel has
actually T5 titanium hardware on it,
so that's gonna save you for your whole set of wheels,
all four, just over 13 pounds.
So that's just over three pounds per wheel
so if you are building this wheel
to do something like autocross or racing,
you're drifting, something like that,
I would definitely recommend
shying away from the stainless steel
and then doing the upgrade with the titanium.
Now you have three different options
for the hardware with this too which is pretty rad,
so this is just your standard titanium color,
they also do a black and then they also burnt-tipped
so the little tips of that on the edge there
are gonna have, it almost looks like those JDM mufflers
where they do the burnt-tipped exhaust,
so if you were to have that on your car
and then tie that in with the hardware,
I think that would be a pretty rad combination.
Of course you are gonna pay a little bit more for that,
but the titanium that they use,
the whole entire nut and bolt assembly is all titanium
so it's not just coated, it's not just the head
and then they throw a stainless washer or nut on the back,
the whole entire assembly is titanium which is pretty cool.
So you do pay a premium for that,
but once again, if you're building your dream wheel,
you're gonna have these things forever,
I would definitely recommend the light-weight titanium.
Now if we jump into the face here,
this is where it gets kind of fun.
If we look at some of the detail,
you're gonna see that face popped out.
This is all CNC'd, all made in the USA in the ESR factory,
so these guys do a beautiful job on this.
I think they use over 15 or 20 different tools
to CNC and get all this material all carved in properly.
There's a nice little ESR logo stamped into the bottom
that's kind of raised up, really cool attention to detail,
but the thing that jumps out that's crazy about this face
is two-toned powder coat job.
So they do,
there's over 9000 different colors that you can choose from.
It's precision powder so it's an excellent material,
and then this one, they actually did a dual fade.
They're able to do two or up to three fades
and just the attention to detail
and how well this is faded just looks really cool.
They did a great job, so you have like a black chrome,
or a candy black they call it,
and then you have a candy red here on the bottom
but we'll get you a closeup of the spokes,
everything is just blended beautifully.
It look really nice, there's no harsh lines,
they did an absolutely killer job on this face.
Now, once again I said this one of 19 different styles,
so this one is the ES1-T, so T for twist,
so you can see the pattern is twisted.
They do make a regular ES1
where the spoke here is not twisted, it's just flat,
so there's two variations of this face style
which is kinda cool.
Now this is where you get to get pretty wild with it.
This two-tone just looks crazy, it really pops out,
once again, kind of a show-looking wheel
but you can do any color you want.
They can do 24 carat gold, they can do neochrome,
they can do triple chrome, they can do black chrome,
so whatever you can think of for a color, they can do it,
and then they can even, like I said,
blend up to two or three different fade patterns
which is absolutely amazing
that they can do something like that with powder coat
and still make that look that beautiful.
Now, if we jump into the middle of the wheel here,
you take a look at the center cap,
most standard ESR wheels are a cast or any other cast wheel
would come with a plastic cap.
This one here, you do get the aluminum center cap
with the ESR logo stamped out in it.
So once again, if you wanted to customize that,
paint it, do something wild with it, you certainly could.
Now size options for this wheel,
you're gonna see anything from 17
all the way up through 24 inch diameter
so it would be pretty amazing to see this wheel
in a 24 inch just cruising down the road,
it would be absolutely insane.
So if you jump over to the widths and then to the offsets,
that's all custom, so that's what's pretty cool,
once again, about building a custom wheel
is you do with it whatever the heck you need to,
so if you have to run staggered fitment,
you need a wider wheel in the back,
you can certainly do that.
Whatever offset you need, they will shave that to that,
get that exact for you guys,
so once again if you're running like a wide body
or a flare kit or something like that,
you can get your offsets dialed in just perfect.
Now, same thing goes for the bolt patterns on this one,
it's all custom so whatever you guys wanna rock
in five lug applications, they can certainly do that.
I'm not 100% about four lug,
I'll drop it across the bottom if they can or can't,
but five lug for sure.
So we'll get you guys some nice shots
of the face, the back, everything here,
and then there's one more thing I wanna talk about
that they can do to the wheel
that a lot of companies aren't doing right now.
So the first thing I thought of when I saw this wheel,
when I saw the carbon fiber lip, is I thought,
"Man, that looks absolutely beautiful
"but what happens if you scratch it,
"what happens when rock chips fly around in there,
"what happens if God forbid you curb the wheel,
"you'd obviously be into a world of hurt."
So ESR actually is an authorized Ceramic Pro dealer
so it's pretty exciting so if you're not familiar with that,
let me give you a little plug on that
and why it's beneficial to you guys as a customer
if you're gonna spend the money
and invest a lot of money into a custom wheel like this,
it's just gonna have a lot better longevity
for the carbon fiber, for the whole wheel itself.
So, the Ceramic Pro coating is actually the little bottle,
it's nanotechnology, and essentially what it is
is I always tell people it's almost kind of like
when you spray the new pair of Jays
with that Crep spray or the Dry Camp stuff
where if you were to dump something on it,
it would literally just drip right off so,
the benefit to that, to do this in the wheel itself is that
all the parts before the wheel is assembled
is they're all wiped down with a Ceramic Pro coating
so everything is covered,
so you don't have to worry about things in between the gaps
or the seams or anything like that.
Everything is 100% coated
and it's gonna have a lot better longevity for the wheel
so things to note would be like break dust,
scratches, UV protection, anything like that,
in especially this carbon fiber barrel,
I would absolutely recommend that if you go carbon fiber,
that you do get the Ceramic Pro coating on that.
Of course, it's an upcharge
but there is different levels to it so I'll show you here.
There's a light and then there's also the 9H,
so there's two different levels.
So what it is, and let me explain to you real quick here,
is if I was to hold up my fingers here,
pretend we're looking at a microscope at the actual paint,
you have gaps in between that.
The Ceramic Pro is gonna fill in those gaps
with those little nanoparticles
and then you're gonna have little nanotubes
build up on the top so it basically fills in those gaps
and then it's a hydrophobic coating, excuse me,
so the water is just gonna bead right up on the top,
dirt, grime, break dust, salt,
all that stuff in the winter months
if you were gonna run a wheel,
and then they can actually do this to any wheel,
it doesn't have to be a high-end three piece wheel,
ESR can do this to any one of their wheels
which is pretty cool.
So you've probably seen a lot of people
do that to other carbon fiber parts,
to their whole entire cars.
Definitely something that I would highly recommend
if you're looking to get more longevity
out of your wheel for this.
They basically rub that coating on,
it's gonna be a little thin layer
of flexible glass is basically what it looks like
and then everything is coated.
Now I wanna say you get up to
anywhere from two to five years out of that,
which is pretty cool, so depending on
what kind of elements and things you're in,
like here in Wisconsin it would be
an absolutely beneficial thing to do here
with the snow, the salt, the grime, all that kind of stuff.
So if you're interested in this wheel,
drop us a message, shop@fitmentindustries.com.
Like I said, it's a custom quote,
make sure to fill out offset, size, finish, hardware,
all that kind of stuff
so we can get the proper quote for you guys.
Let us know what you guys think of this wheel.
Drop a comment, share it.
Shout-out to ESR, thank you for the wheel,
and we will catch you guys next week, peace.
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