Left front wheel failure, midcorner on Riverside at Buttonwillow Raceway!
2007 Honda S2000, intake/exhaust, aero
Wheel is a Forgestar F14, 17×10 +55. 14 track days total on various Southern California tracks. 6 days on Hankook RS3, 6 days on R888, and the last two days were on Bridgestone RE71R (which were giving me noticeably higher lateral loads).
Prior to my first day on RE71Rs, there were no visible cracks on the exterior of the spokes. I lazily ran my hand along the backside of the spokes, but obviously missed, well, a lot of cracks. The spoke that was cracked clean-through on the right-rear either cracked at that event (WSIR) or during this event at Buttonwillow. The front left may also have had a complete crack prior to or during the Buttonwillow event.
All wheels are eventually prone to this sort of failure, but some sooner than others. More comprehensive data on these wheels is available here: http://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/10726…
Also, if you want a chassis-mount wing for your S2000 that enables you to apparently drive the wheels off your car, let me know here: http://www.cgtechnic.com
UPDATE, 2014-04-16:
I’ve put together a sort of debrief on this incident at S2ki, the permalink is right here!
http://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/1072676-forgestar-f14-17×10-data-thread/page__view__findpost__p__23020079
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@0:59 your tyre clearly is seen coming off the wheel. That doesnt happens with a wheel failure but becuase you probably had the wrong fitment tyre or tyre failure which wouldn’t be surprising seeing how you drive. Pretty shitty of you to shift the blame to forgestar
THAT REACTION! Bwahahahahahahaaa!
Forged wheels dont do this. That wheel is cast. Putting “forged” in the name unfortunately doesn’t help with strength and metal fatigue.
Rally car bro.
Why are you not still making vids? Looks like a good channel Chris 🙂
Very good video with a pleasant presentation. Many thanks for the effort which you put into making this.
Forgestar literally means the star spoked wheels have been forged, fraudulently copied, faked. Name speaks for itself. Why would you buy this set of knock off rims for your expensive cars. If you’re an enthusiasts, you’re not just into aesthetics or looks but for ultimate performance, quality, safety, and reliability. Buy wheels that are made in Japan like Rays, Advan, Enkei, Mugen or Spoon. They’re not expensive. They only seemed expensive because of these knock off taiwan, china made wheels that are ripping you off and of course the middleman.
OMG, my F30 335i has F14s, did you call Forgestar and what did they say about this?
protip, don’t jump the curbing
Props for keeping your cool during the entire situation.
Why not a set of Enkei’s, Advan’s, or Rays? Who the fuck is Forgestar?
How do you mount your phone on the dash like that?
hahaha my cheap china wheels held well on track days :p
omg thats awesome… really man u have a awesome car and u praise a major failure of this magnitude? smh…
Dude that sucks but your s2000 looks dope!
This is clearly an inexperienced driver. A driver that knows their car would of notice something wrong when the car started to vibrate on right turns. Slowed down an headed for the pits.
Is it a guy or a les
you gota be carefull with thoes types of wheels, they might be flow formed but if the way they are initially cast sucks, the entire wheel blows, look for low pressure cast or high pressure cast rims, unless they specify that then theyre gravity cast witch have alot of air bubbles in the rims, leading to cracks
what was your tire profile. I can only assume with a 17×10 you had to sacrifice a bit of sidewall to get those to fit.
thank you for this video. I believe I will inspect my tires and wheels more often.
fuck wheels
Forgestar just filed for bankruptcy last month bc of this video
And that’s why you buy forged wheels..they don’t blow up like that lol. Your life is worth way more than cheap wheels.
I think we have a different definition of awesome
Yep that VTEC will rip them wheels right off the dam car
there are 18 dislikes from Forgestar. lmao!
gotta love the guys attitude
Damn and I was looking at F14s. Nope!
“That’s awesome” wut