Carbon Flash - New Wheel Option for ZR1 Only
 

There are four wheel options for the 2019 ZR1: Pearl Nickel, Carbon Flash Painted, Satin Graphite Painted, and Chrome.

The new Carbon Flash option can be seen on the Sebring Orange Convertible ZR1 that was revealed in LA. Be sure to check it out at the LA Auto Show this week if you are able to attend.

According to the order guide, this is for the ZR1 only for the 2019 MY.

Personally, I'm glad they are offering a wheel option that matches the rest of the Carbon Flash painted pieces on the car. (This is the reason I painted my 2014 Stingray wheels in Carbon Flash and why my 2017 GS Tribute wheels have Carbon Flash inner spoke.)


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Oh Boy!?
 

He's got these wheels falling off the car!:eek:
Now they are fakely painted?:willy:

Is this going to be the only wheel design? I know I'm being petty but this wheel looks bad to me. When was this design on a Ferrari? 1980's

There is only one orderable wheel design. Until I saw the ZR1 in person, I felt the wheels were the weakest design element on the car. My impression changed dramatically when I saw the car up close and personal. It surprised me how good they actually look on the car and how they actually compliment the design of the car. I was also surprised by how dramatically my opinion had changed about them.

Somethings show much better in person than pics :thumbs:

Yes, and the wheels and high wing are two things that definitely do so on the ZR1.

Not trying to pick a fight, but I don't see how those wheels could possibly look any better in person. They are a completely underwhelming design, almost identical to what was on a mid-80s Testarossa. The standard Z06 and Grand Sport wheels are light years better looking IMHO.

An interestingly irony, that whereas the ZR1 has the most standard visible carbon fiber and thus the least amount of carbon flash black metallic painted items, the wheels of the ZR1 have a carbon flash black metallic option, whereas the SR’s/GS’s/Z06’s which have a lot of carbon flash black metallic items standard, do not offer a carbon flash wheel option.

I agree! I wish I could just get zr1 supercharger on z06. I think grand sport and z06 are much better looking car than the zr1.

I'm not a fan of the wheels, either...

I totally understand! But here's the "in person" difference (IMHO)...in photos, you really cannot perceive the depth aspect of the wheels. In person, the inner part of the wheels present a depth that is pretty cool. Again, it's all opinion, but I was shocked that my opinion changed like it did on Tuesday night after spending time with the two ZR1s in LA.

So what I see here is that they're already chipped. lol :rofl:

If I had to get one wheel choice it would be the CF wheels but I still like the ALL Black wheels best.

Since you broke the ice! REAL bad carbon flash looks bad as well! :leaving:

Plus the front is an odd size. They could weigh more too the spokes are very thick and heavy looking. Your right the C6Zr1 -C7-GS machined cups look 100 times better! :cheers:

[Norm MacDonald, SNL News] "GM knows this makes no sense whatsoever; they just like irony."

I'm just wondering if they are not using a CF wheel because they want to keep the costs down, I mean the GT350R has them, why not the ZR1?

Nice! I prefer Carbon Flash to Gloss Black too :thumbs:

I’m surprised that they didn’t offer carbon fiber wheels as an option. Expensive, but I’m sure that many would have ordered them...

Dude that makes no sense carbon fiber or carbon flash? GT350R has what?
Carbon fiber wheels are very high how would that hold the cost down? :willy:

Wish they would offer true CF wheels as option

I'm sick of round wheels. They've been doing this since the cave man. Come on GM.

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They are awful, look at the finish around the lug holes seems they have dirt and a hair in the paint. Those are the worst looking Corvette wheels ever put on a modern Corvette!

I don't know what you're getting at here, I said I wonder if they're not using them because they want to keep the costs down.

https://jalopnik.com/the-shelby-gt35...use-1717009943

The 2016 Ford Mustang GT350R is the first proper production car to come standard with carbon fiber wheels, and the front pair uses the same ceramic plasma arc spray-on heat protection what NASA put on the original Space Shuttle’s main fuel pump turbine blades. That should do it!

Carbon fiber wheels are something else. They work brilliantly on the world’s most powerful electric bike (which I tried out and found amazing), and of course Christian von Koenigsegg came up with a way to make them weigh just 13 pounds each.

K-Segg’s wheels are hollow and hold up pretty well at crazy speeds, but a set of Aircores will set you back by more than what an average family sedan costs. To be exact, 60,000 Euros without taxes but with the Michelins included.

While BMW is toying with the idea of affordable carbon fiber wheels, Ford acted faster by teaming up with the experts at Carbon Revolution to create something that can be mass produced at an affordable price, but also take the abuse on track.

To turn them into OEM products, the wheels had deal sufficiently with curb strikes, UV and chemical exposure and extreme heat. Ford claims despite what people think, hitting a curb with these babies won’t be an issue:

One of the most severe tests for wheels in the Ford development process involves striking a curb at speed – a test that, without proper design, can cause serious wheel and tire damage. Because of the light weight, advanced construction methods and resins in the wheels, along with the highly-developed MagneRide dampers, the suspension was able to react so fast that the driver wasn’t sure the test had been carried out correctly and ran it twice to be sure. The suspension response was fast enough to greatly diminished the severity of the impact – that’s the power of minimizing unsprung weight.

The Shelby GT350R’s brakes also create rotor temperatures in excess of 1,650 degrees Fahrenheit (900 degrees Celsius), but Carbon Revolution’s thermal barrier coating system takes care of that as well using a multistage, multimaterial coating formulation. They use a plasma arc gun to liquefy a ceramic material, and then the wheels are coated at critical points around the inner wheel “barrel” and on the back of the spokes.

The result is a thin, “nearly diamond-hard coating” that allows continuous track use “by even the most aggressive drivers.”

That’s not the end of it though, because they also had to come up with new precesses to create a smooth finish despite the additional UV and chemical protection. High-gloss black is what you get.

The complete build process goes like this:

Manufacturing carbon fiber wheels begins with the creation of the preformed internal carbon structure, composed of precisely manufactured carbon strands arrayed into woven fabrics. The elements are then placed into a mold using state of the art manufacturing techniques.

An RFID chip with a unique tracking number is embedded in this structure, and each wheel is individually entered into a quality assurance system. Once this structure is assembled, it’s infused with resin and cured at high temperatures.

This process results in a one-piece wheel that ensures maximum strength – eliminating the need to bond or glue the wheel’s spokes and barrel components together.

As the wheel cures, 61 individual checks and more than 246,000 data points are logged before it’s released from the machine. To guarantee quality parts, the cured wheels are analyzed using a 3D computerized tomography (CT) imaging process in which more than 18,000 X-ray images are taken. If the wheel passes inspection, it undergoes machining for the valve stem and mounting hardware holes before it gets painted, coated, assembled, dimensionally checked and shipped to Flat Rock Assembly Plant for installation on a new Shelby GT350R Mustang.
The resulting wheels weigh 18 pounds instead of 33 like an alloy. That’s a pretty significant reduction in unsprung weight and rotational inertia.

Ford says they lost 60 pounds while making the wheels stiffer as well, so they believe “this is a game changer for the industry.” Well, it sure looks like it!

I can't stand split-spoke wheel designs. Looks tacky and a pain in the rear to clean.

IMHO, it's really hard to beat that classic Cragar look. Of course, I've never cared about wheels and don't understand the obsession with them at all. I just want some strong, lightweight wheels that are easy to clean, and I'm good.

Well "I wonder why if they are not using carbon fiber wheels to keep the costs down?" Is most certainly a VERY silly question at best.

Could have saved all that no one is arguing that carbon fiber is not lighter and better for performance.

dude, what are you on?

1) Why is "why are they not using a CF wheel" a silly question?
2) Who the f'k is arguing?
3) You're making more out of this than any sane person should.

1. To finish you left out the "because they want to keep the costs down" it was a good oxymoron all in one sentence ! That was my only point! :rofl:

except I didn't say "to keep the costs down why didn't they use CF wheels?", I wondered if the reason why they didn't use CF wheels was because they wanted to keep the costs down.

RIF so is comprehension man. :cheers:

Does anyone have a picture of the Satin Graphite painted rims?

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The wheels will have to be kept super-clean in order for anyone to notice the carbon flash, otherwise brake dust will completely hide it.

fixed:thumbs:

Has anyone seen the polished Aluminum?

Any of you voicing your dislike have seen them in person or better yet are buying a ZR1 ? Don't like the wheels, don't buy it or change them after. They look much better in person.
I'd prefer to see more carbon flash trim options vs all the carbon fiber.

I’ll pass...I don’t like glitter on my rims. Graphite is the way to go in my opinion

CC's don't develop brake dust unless you are intentionally trying to kill your pads. Literally 300 miles and they will pass a white glove test. A nice perk.

:iagree:I was thinking this as well.

Makes me wish I had CCs...:(

Brake pads than?