Never seen wheels like those before.

 

How ... lol

 

i belive its plexy glass... 2 " thick... seen it a few days a ago on another site... just can't rember which one now...lol

 

I got the pictures off the VWvortex.

 

It's Lexan.

As one of my friends explained "Its basically made with aluminum powder, its tough, and its hard to machine. Also its not cheap, I think for 2 rims it was going to be $25,000"

His college is working with it currently for a bike wheel project.

 

Lexan is a polycarbonate plastic... and although its tough its easy to machine compaired to say steel... (OK hard to machine and make look good maybe )

Yea its expensive too, but $50G for a set of rims seems a little much to me... I think you could probably find 4x4 sheets of 2" stock for less then 3large....

[ November 07, 2005, 11:32 AM: Message edited by: Haunz ]

 

If u got the money to do it, do it. But I'd prefer rims for $2,000 max these days instead.

 

wow thats nuts...I wonder is I could steal them for my rx-7