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A 15x6" Fuchs weighs 12 and a 15x7" weighs 13 pounds; as well as being forged (stronger and if you curb a rim edge it will bend whereas a cast wheel will immediately break) you can see the advantage of the Fuchs wheel. The '67 911R wheels are even lighter- the 15x6 (which has a different part # than the regular early 6" wheel) is only 11 pounds (forged from 5 1/2" wheels slugs?) and if you find 1 it's worth big bucks to anyone with a 911R. The 7's, as I've said, are different as well, being made with the extra inch to the inside  so wider tires fit under the stock cars' body work. They are the ideal wheel for the back of a Speedster, but with the VW crowd loving them too prices are so nuts (last time I looked 3-$5,000/pair) you can understand why I had a pair of 6's widened ($500 from the local wheel repair/re-finishing specialist) for the back of my car.

I remember Gordon weighing his 16" wheels some time ago and they were only a pound or so heavier than a comparable 15" wheel. The Porsche wheel spec chart we post the link to occasionally has the 16" Fuchs weights wrong.

The 15x6's come in early, or "deep" (which the VW crowd especially goes nuts for and is as much or more to blame as the Porsche people for the crazy prices they're paying for these wheels), while the later wheels are "flat". Most of the deep 6's have a little casting protrusion (or "heart") at the valve stem as well. Fuchs stopped with the heart thing near the end of the deep 6's manufacturing run so there are some deep 6 wheels out there without.

PS- All the cast Fuchs replicas I have seen or heard about are substantially heavier- they start at about 4 lbs. more than the same size forged Fuchs wheel. Yeah, I'm the first to admit oe Fuchs are expensive (especially these days!) but it's 16-20 lbs of unsprung (and rotating!) weight you're removing from the car- that's a big deal. 

Fuchs- flat 6 vs deep 6

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