HRE Wheels | The Birth of the HRE RS309 Wheel from Start to Finish

HRE_Wheels · 08-17-2018, 11:49 AM

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?

jeff@autocouture · 08-17-2018, 12:31 PM

ALways awesome to see the process that goes into this

ellipsis212 · 08-17-2018, 02:10 PM

Thanks for sharing. You can really see the leap forward in the intricacies of wheel design and construction with this series and I badly want a set for myself at some point.

shay2nak · 08-17-2018, 03:23 PM

crazy!

BzsBimmer · 08-17-2018, 03:41 PM

Thanks for sharing the Mfg process.

I love seeing Mfg processes from companies. I’m in manufacturing as a technologist, advanced manufacturing engineering

AW M4 · 08-17-2018, 04:15 PM

dawei213 · 08-19-2018, 05:12 PM

Absolute work of art! Thanks for sharing!

dubsesd · 08-20-2018, 04:24 PM

beautiful

whoop_ass · 08-21-2018, 01:09 AM

Brilliant!!!!
thanks for Sharing

mah1688 · 09-25-2018, 08:38 AM

wowza!

GOLFFRR · 09-25-2018, 08:49 AM

best wheels on the market IMO.

great post!

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HRE_Wheels 2118 Rep 2,014 Posts Drives: F80 M3 6MT Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: Vista, CA iTrader: (0)	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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