Never been a big fan of the “Twist” wheels found on the early 996 cars like ours. They are relatively heavy and also narrower than some of the other wheel options.
We’d love to put a set of BBS LM wheels on the car but at $1000 each that’s not going to happen soon. We do sell a BBS LM “replica” wheel for 1/4 the price. However what we’ve decided to go with are the ‘Carerra 2’ wheels that were delivered on the ’02 and up 996 cars. We sell a refurbished “new” version of this wheel that is lighter and wider than the “Twist” and since the price is right they were selected.
The “Twists” may be powder coated black to use as track wheels even though they are narrow and heavier. No sense in buying a perfectly good set of wheels for track abuse when we’re not really racing. Those last 10ths of a second are not the objective.
