HRE Wheels | The Birth of the HRE RS309 Wheel from Start to Finish
08-17-2018, 01:56 PM
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HRE Wheels | The Birth of the HRE RS309 Wheel from Start to Finish
We followed a set of HRE RS309 Wheels in production and took some photos during the process.
Rim parts are pulled, forgings are lathed, and everything is placed onto a cart so we can keep track of their progress.
What you see below is so we can limit how much mass the wheel has. More pockets, less weight!
Center Forgings jump onto our Horizontal mills to get their design cut
Now we start the process of de-burring the wheel, smoothing it out and then getting that into our polisher!
Onto Polishing!
Nice and shiny!!
After we clean up the centers after their polishing, we bring them over to powdercoat
Out from powder! First stage of powdercoat is shot, second stage will be the Satin Clear Coat to turn this into our Frozen Polished Bronze finish
Second stage of powder is applied and now you can see they're Satin in this photo
Assembly starting. First things first, remove the cover on the backpad. Backpads should never be powdercoated as that alters the offset which was machined.
Fasteners going in! We're in the home stretch!
Blue tape on the lip to protect it from scratches.
And that's it! We have a complete set of HRE RS309's! Once it's all said and done, the Polished Bronze outer and that Frozen Polished Bronze center really work for each other. We want to know what you think! Here's the completed wheel!
Thanks for taking a look! What do you think of the RS309? You like our color combo choice?
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moxie (SF) (09-11-2022)
08-17-2018, 02:36 PM
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Love those... fantastic color. Would hate to own them with anything other than PCCBs for fear of having to try and clean brake dust out from between the lip and spoke loops!
08-17-2018, 02:44 PM
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Awesome, glad you love them! I'm assuming you've never had ceramic coated wheels? If you had you wouldn't be worried about brake dust, that's seriously a thing of the past with hydrophobic ceramic coating to prevent the brake dust from sticking to the wheel. Pressure washer with a good PH Neutral wheel cleaner and a brush gets rid of that easy. Takes me at most 2-3 minutes per wheel.
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08-17-2018, 07:04 PM
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This is the kit I used if you're interested (also an HRE Dealer who actually offers Ceramic coating for any HRE Wheel purchased too) - https://www.esotericcarcare.com/kami...-coat-pro-kit/ - There's an instructional video at the bottom which you should take a look at. Don't worry about the labor, you can do this yourself! I did 2 coats, with an hour or so of drying in between, and without that drying time it took me maybe a total of an hour to do all four wheels, maybe a little more than that, but not a ton of time.
07-09-2021, 06:49 PM
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