Durrani magnesium wheels?

Maybe, but first they need a phone system with more than one line and a live employee to answer it when people call.

 

Is that Paige?

Lay off the donuts baby! I ordered my wheels from Indy Superbikes and was very reassured by those guys. They have been dealing with Durrani for months as they get this project running. They are very confident and so am I!

 

I don't want to enter in the controversy but I met Mr. Shehryar Durrani personally. He is one honest and pure guy who always think about masses rather then personal benefits. I've seen some of his other projects and idea of how to get benefits from the light magnesium and you all will be surprised when they hit the market.

 

I may regret this, but as of right now, I smell bullshit.

 

Nice to meet You MR. Durrani...

 

This was quite an interesting topic... Just yesterday I was offered a set of these wheels from Indy but I opted to replace my CZ's with some PVM 10Y instead.

I email my buddy who is a Engineer and did a lot of stuff with Mold injections while he was getting his masters and he basically told me this: Quote:

This basically looks the same as injection molding for plastic. If you were to use this process then you need to make high volumes in order to turn a profit because the molds are so expensive ~25k for a small mold. IT also gets a lot more complicated if you start to make bigger things. Some of the advantages are that you can make very detailed parts fairly fast. The first few you make may be scrap but after you get the machine dialed in you can crank part after part out. When the part comes out you will just need to remove the flashing. and remove the runners and gates. i did not think you would be able to do this with a metal becasue of the high tempurature you would need to get the magnesium to and flow into the mold. So you would probably have to get the mold fairly warm too.

to me it would seem hard to make wheels that using that type of a process. You generally would not want to make large symetrical parts using this type of a process. Also i dont think the wheels would be as stong as going with the forged approach

If it is stonger, then you would have to inject the molten material at an extremly high pressure and maintain that pressure as the magnesium cools. Because when it cools it shrinks so it would be pulling away from the molding. Maybe as it is injected the molding cools the outside and the middle stays molten and keeps the presure on the outer most layer. I would need to look into this process further to know for sure

I definitely think it is a much cheaper process but I find it hard to believe that it is 10% stronger

 

take it with a grain of salt....your buddy sounds like he spent about a week in one class discussing die casting.

he's definitely not a die caster.

 

i don't know where you saw i stated he was a die cast expert and no he is no die caster but he did a few years with plastic molding and knows a thing or two about injection molding

 

I know tons about plastic injection molding, its what I do for a living. But that doesn't mean I would tell anyone to trust a word I say about molding Magnesium.

That being said, I've seen it done on lots of small parts but never something like wheels. And from what I've seen on the small parts, I would have second thoughts on putting those wheels on my bike. I would hope someone has done the engineering research as far as strengths of material, but with the looks of their website, it makes you wonder.

 

ever wonder where the term mag wheels came from? they were originally all magnesium.

magnesium wheels are nothing new, my brotha.

 

But where did the term "dubs" come from? The hood?

 

Molding process is what I was referring to, not the material.

 

twennies.....double dimes...dubs.

 

You dolt! That's Mrs. Durrani!

 

i agree. the key is all in the molding and fusing processes.


everyone's got their panty's all up in a wad...because the dude hasn't answered a couple calls and isn't a web designer. shit, i'll go out there and look at it...it's not like i'm doing anything else. i feel i'm qualified as anybody to assess their mfg process.

 

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Bring HeavyPenny and we'll go to The Wall afterwards and forget everything we saw.

 

at least that's what they call them here....(rims, ya swedish meatball)

edit: wth is the wall?

 

Wheels Mr. Gruber, as in 20".

 

A bar that HeavyPenny's friend Ryan bounces. :up:

 

It's called the Well...not the wall. Geek :tut: