Many of us were in the internet room when “because race car” happened—you should be humming “The Room Where It Happens”—and that original Craigslist post for a Mazda MX-3 joyfully spurred lots of fun ...

Do customers need center-lock wheels for road cars? Absolutely not. The center-locking wheel was initially a motorsport technology, designed to make wheel swaps significantly faster, while also ...

We've said it before, but it's a fact that few things are as simple as they look. Take something as commonplace as lug nuts: They hold the wheels onto a vehicle. That's simple enough, but another ...

For those who may be unaware, centerlock wheels incorporate a single, large central nut to secure the wheel in place, as opposed to the more common five-lug setup seen on the C8 Corvette. While ...

There are two commonly used ways to fasten wheels to a hub: lug-centric and hub-centric. In hub-centric designs (see figure below), the wheel fits snugly against the hub which provides support along ...

Picture in your mind a wheel that's attached with 8 lug nuts, and you'll probably see a large wheel mounted on a pickup truck; likely a heavy-duty rig with at least a 3/4 ton capacity. Big engines and ...