Dumb and Dangerous-Forgeline and DV8 Motorsports present fake centerlock rims

What a 2fer: both ghetto and dangerous to boot.  Apparently neither the geniuses at +Forgeline Motorsports  and the tool peddling their stuff, Anthony Whatley and his LOL outfit, +DV8 Motorsports Inc were firmly MIA during their high school physics courses and lack even the basic understanding of mechanical engineering.

Here is the deal:  centerlock wheel make sense only in one scenario: endurance racing where tire wear is an issue and time needed to change the wheels counts toward the outcome of the race. 

From the engineering point, even the true centerlocks are unsound, the cyclic load is applied over an area considerably smaller than one created by conventional lug nuts or lug bolts.  What is the result?  Due to concentrated load, the area surrounding the center bore develops CRACKS over time, resulting in wheel failure.  And yes, wheel studs can fail too but when they fail, it is a cheap failure, not expensive wheels.  Also, if even a small amount of freeplay develops in the pin area, the wheels will start walking, resulting in another form of failure, sheering off.

Now, what did Forgeline come up with and what is that idiot Whatley selling?  Well, nothing less than FAKE centerlock wheel mounting system.  What is wrong with this idea?   In real centerlock, the hub is already set up for the center bore mounting.  What Forgeline did is a hub adapter, one that mounts to the original hub using their own lugnuts that function as drivepins and in effect add dead weight to this idiotic set up.  There is more dead ROTATING WEIGHT from the adapters themselves and then more deadweight from the cheesy looking nut and locking cap which incidentally, is meant to CROSSTHREAD due to pitch being finer than the one on threaded center of the adapter.  This whole thing is just outright STUPID but not only stupid and ghetto rigged, it is also dangerous since the new rims mount using a single center point now, instead of safer multi lug design. 

Should be interesting to see if anyone gets hurt and sues Forgeline and this DV8 Motorsports idiot, nothing beats learning the hardway, apparently.

Here is the fake centerlock set up:

 

 

Here are the adapters with holes drilled and drivepins aka lug nuts in place

 

 

And here is Whatley's own ghetto rigged and outright unsafe install.  On the bright side, this idiot is doing it to himself first, LOL.