VAD Forged VM1 + Speedwells wide body Aero for the Toyota Supra = Perfection

We thought some of our older forged wheel designs has started to reach the end of their life cycle, but our customers seem to disagree. Our old VM1 wheel design has seen some mileage over the years, being fitted to various cars around the world in various finishes, the wheel design that adorned our original VAD 997 RSR has done us proud, it’s still going and still in demand.

Over the last few months we have been following a build belonging to Sean Reid who happens to be a very good friend of Iby from Speedwell alloy wheel re-finishers, Sean ordered the full wide body Supra aero pack and has put together and absolute beauty, what caught our eye was the colour he has painted the Supra, which is a classic 60’s Porsche grey, which suits the conversion really well, and a colour we have yet to see on this particular wide body conversion, a choice we like ... a lot.

The wheel of choice for Sean’s build are our VAD VM1 with the concave profile, matt black centre with gloss black barrel, in sizes 10.5x19 front and 13x19 rear, its one car and build we are very much looking forward seeing this build come to fruition

13X19 VAD VM1 custom 2 piece Forged wheel, Matte Black Centre, Gloss Black Barrel

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Magnesium Forged Wheels

Our Magnesium wheel sales are slowly taking off thanks to clientèle that want only the very best for their road or race car, they want the pinnacle product and that for us is Magnesium.

Our magnesium range consists of 1 piece forged monoblock, or 2 piece forged barrels with Magnesium centres, the 1 piece limited to sizes and widths, so we can not accommodate every application with the 1 piece wheel, especially the bespoke builds, but the 2 piece we can build pretty much any application.

To showcase our products we will be building a set of our 2 piece for Anthony Gaylard mighty Nissan GTR that is currently under going some major aero upgrades for another assault around the green hell, the superb Nordschleife, or Nurburgring as its fondly known, with another go at the sub 7 minute lap, and this time Anthony is holding nothing back, his GTR will be wider, with a lot more features based on aerodynamics, and with the sneak peek we have had its one awesome looking machine.

Anthony's GTR has the very best of everything, its a complete beast of a car, with Alcon supplying the adjustable peddle box as well as an all new braking system, we will reveal more of those parts when the car breaks cover.

With the new upgrades, especially the wider front and rear bodywork he needs wheels, and for Anthony only the best will do, so we will be producing our 12x19 & 13x19 2 piece forged magnesium wheels, with titanium hardware, weight should be circa 7.9kg per wheel .

VAD Forged Magnesium

VAD Forged Magnesium

So what are the benefits of forged magnesium over forged aluminium. Magnesium is the lightest metallic structural material available, its less dense than Aluminium, so Magnesium wheels can be designed to be significantly lighter than its Aluminium counterpart, so not only is it lighter is also a stronger material.

For further details on our Magnesium line up, sizes, prices and applications, get in touch with us today, we will be happy to discuss your personal build requirements, for the road or the track we will have you covered.

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Aspect GT new wheel designs

With the turn of every year we always try and update our custom forged wheel range with at least one new design and to be honest this year we were not going to look at until the middle part of the year, but with the wheels for our BMW Z4 GT3 V8 being built incorrectly especially the fronts it was time for a rethink, as AG wheels like most of the wheels companies stateside don’t stand by their mistakes, so we are left to pick up the rather large cost of replacing a set of wheels we had yet to use, we could just replace the centres, but we would rather start with a fresh clean build with another manufacturer, one that we can trust and work with long term, enter Aspect GT, a relatively new name but with a long pedigree.

VAD Forged Wheels

VAD Forged Wheels

VAD FORGED AF1 RALLY

We have looked at the mesh designs and that design along with a multi-spoke will be the usual easy choice for our build, but we want to step outside the box a little, it’s a motorsport looking car, so we want a motorsport looking design, and there is nothing that looks like what we want, so we got our heads together with our wheel partners and manufacturers that are helping us on this build and we have come up with two motorsport themed wheels, the problem is well like them both.

The first design is a take on a true motorsport classic, a little touch of the old OZ Motorsport wheel styling but with extra smaller windows, like the old school Speedline or compomotive take on the design, but this is a 3 piece wheel and will have a concave profile, with whats called super registry.

VAD FORGED WHEELS

VAD FORGED WHEELS

VAD FORGED WHEELS

VAD FORGED WHEELS AF1 RACE

the smaller windows down by the bowl can also be left out of the design for that true motorsport look and plenty of room for the graphics or CNC machined text around the bowl area of the wheel, the second take on the design is the same design but with raised spoke in-between the windows, and this is the design that we really do like the look of, this design with an aggressive offset will set the Z4 GT3 off to perfection

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