Rims: Final polish just as you want it
ADVICE Rims on a car often reveal a lot about the owner. At the California-based 964 conversion specialist Singer, the wheels of the Porsche 911 are customized together with experts from BBS Motorsport and Bernd Kussmaul.
While some owners want their restoration to be race track oriented, others focus on street use. As a result, a variety of designs have been pursued. Two iconic wheels, closely associated with the BBS motorsport tradition, are reinterpreted by the study.
Elegant 7-spoke design
After milling and shot peening, the wheels were shipped to specialist Bernd Kussmaul in Weinstadt, Germany. The aim was to achieve optically separate spokes in the center - one part highly polished, one part shot-blasted. By masking and polishing the shiny areas several times, a very special look was finally achieved. Bernd Kussmaul: "We developed various approaches, discarded our own ideas, and at short notice completely rethought them so that we could implement the design request with faithful attention to detail."
Technology, expertise and design
The second set of wheels, known as Turbofan variants, also allows an owner to take a track-focused approach to their restoration. It pays homage to the BBS wheels on the 1970 934 endurance race car. Designed to dissipate heat from the brakes, the wheels have since become synonymous with precision, strength and beauty. The highlight was then screwed into the beams, the Disc, which creates multi-part.
This basic idea from Singer boss Rob Dickinson then led Kussmaul to perfection. Parts of the outer disc are polished to a high gloss, then anodized in the desired shade of gold, some areas of which are masked again, and the entire disc is again painted in Piano Black gloss.
