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Forged Monoblock

100% Designed + Engineered + Manufactured in the USA

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The 0320.01 monoblock was born out of a personal project for a Mk4 20th Anniversary GTI build when the time came to find a wheel that was fitting of the performance and investment in the rest of the car.  We knew we wanted to leverage the quality and fitment benefits of a custom forged product but felt that there wasn’t a design on the market that both met our performance objectives and looked at home on most VAG platforms.  So we decided to take matters into our own hands, design a wheel that pays tribute to the look that made us fall in love with the platform in the first place, and refine the styling to achieve our goals for weight, strength, and width. 

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To ensure ultimate quality and flawless execution, we collaborated with our friends at Forgeline Motorsports on the engineering and production of this wheel. 

 

Forgeline have been a market leader for decades in the premium forged wheel category, and for us they were the obvious choice when looking for a partner to produce our design. 

 

In addition to their legendary production quality, Forgeline brought their expertise in the way of performance simulation, leveraging their participation in motorsports to help us ensure that we crafted a wheel that works as well as it looks.

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A wheel with 15 straight spokes should be simple to design right?  Wrong.  It was immediately apparent from the outset of this project that achieving what we wanted from a styling perspective was going to work against us when it comes to achieving what we wanted to from a functional perspective.  We sketched, modeled, sculpted, and prototyped several concepts before arriving at a solution that offered the right combination of clean styling, weight reduction, and strength.  

CONFIGURABLE

Each wheel is custom machined to order to each individual customer's specs.  We crafted the core design to be compatible with likely scenarios for VAG platforms to give you the freedom to control your fitment.  If splitting hairs over ultimate fitment isn't your thing, we have put together a few configurations to select from that work well on various generations/platforms.  Of course, we're always happy to help you with this selection as well.

BBK FRIENDLY

With such a shortage of options available, we ensured that this design is friendly to big brake configurations ...even on the latest platforms requiring higher offsets.

WEIGHT OPTIMIZED

Optimizing styling and weight often fly in the face of each other when it comes to wheel design, and focusing on one or the other is much easier than solving for both at once.  We iterated like mad to remove extraneous weight while achieving the form and style that we wanted, while still yielding a design that is strong and rigid.

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Wheel Diameters (in)

Wheel Width (in)

Bolt Patterns

Offsets (mm)

Center Bore

Wheel Weight (lbs)

Max Street Tire Load (lbs)

17, 18, 19, 20

8.5 -13

5x100, 5x112

Fully customizable

57.1, 66.6, Option to customize

19-21  (dependent on sizing)

1500

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Standard Silver
traditional gloss silver with metallic flake
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Gloss Black
ultra high gloss solid black
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Satin Black
durable solid black finish with softer highlights and less reflection than gloss
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Matte Black
ultra low gloss black powder coat
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Transparent Smoke
machined and hand-brushed surfaces finished with a dark translucent powder coat
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Frozen Charcoal
dark cool gray with subtle pearl in the color and satin finish
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Transparent Red
machined and hand-brushed surfaces finished with a translucent red powder coat
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Transparent Gold
machined and hand-brushed surfaces finished with a translucent gold powder coat
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Satin Race Gold
classic motorsports-inspired metallic gold with soft satin finish
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Polished
fully polished aluminum finish with optional clear coat
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Brushed High Gloss Clear
machined and hand-brushed surfaces finished with a bright, high-gloss clear
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Hyper Silver
modern take on gloss silver with very little visible flake, dark darks, and bright highlights
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Graphite
dark metallic gray with ultra high gloss finish
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Satin Graphite
durable graphite finish with softer highlights and less reflection than gloss
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Matte Graphite
ultra low gloss graphite finish
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Dark Transparent Smoke
darker version of the Transparent Smoke finish with the same machined and brushed surface finishes
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Tinted Gold Transparent
machined and hand-brushed surfaces finished with a tinted gold powder coat
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Matte Transparent Red
machined and hand-brushed surfaces finished with a matte translucent red powder coat
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Transparent Copper
machined and hand-brushed surfaces finished with a matte translucent copper powder coat
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Matte Race Gold
classic motorsports-inspired metallic gold with ultra low gloss matte finish
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Medium Bronze
medium bronze anodized-style finish with satin clear
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Brushed Satin Bronze
machined and hand-brushed surfaces finished with a semi-transparent bronze powder coat
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Matte Hyper Silver
hyper Silver finished with a matte clear coat
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Bronze
warm metallic bronze with ultra high gloss finish
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Satin Bronze
durable bronze finish with softer highlights and less reflection than gloss
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Matte Bronze
ultra low gloss bronze finish
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Satin Gunmetal
metallic gray finish that's darker than traditional silver but not as dark as Graphite
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Matte Tinted Clear
raw wheel with tinted matte clear finish
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Transparent Blue
machined and hand-brushed surfaces finished with a translucent blue powder coat
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Race Gold
classic motorsports-inspired metallic gold with ultra high gloss finish
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Pearl White
satin white finish with high pearl content creating lots of color flop
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Hampton Gold
sophisticated champagne metallic gold
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Tinted Gold Transparent Matte
machined and hand-brushed surfaces finished with a tinted gold matte powder coat
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