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Most of the time, a crack on the back side of the wheel will cross the flange and bead area at right angles to the direction the wheel spins. Theyre precisioncrafted from coldforged aluminum for superior strength and are up to 40 percent lighter than comparable race wheels. Since 1967, weld is a pioneer in wheel engineering and manufactures the highest quality forged race wheels for dirt, oval and drag racing, along with wheels. Jun 03, 2006 i believe in most cases you are right but since the weld drag lites are a 3 piece rim and you are actulally squishing 2 pieces of aluminium together onto a hub inside the rim. Weld designs, engineers and manufactures one, two and three piece wheels from aircraft quality forged aluminum at our 140,000 square foot manufacturing facility in kansas city, mo.
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