Aircraft Billet Wheel Adapters & Spacers

Our engineering department here at Colorado Components knows the last thing you want is to spend money on high quality wheels and tires for your ATV or Golf Cart only to have to sacrifice on the adapters to bring your build to life.  Our custom billet wheel adapters and wheel spacers are made from aerospace grade billet aluminum to ensure the finest quality, brilliance and life.  Want to learn more about how our billet products are engineered and manufactured?  scroll to the bottom of this page for more information!

4×110 to 4×115 Wheel Adapter

Easily convert your 4×110 bolt pattern wheels to fit on any 4×115 application (Arctic Cat).  Our top quality wheel adapters are made from the highest grade aircraft aluminum. Each of our adapters come with OEM quality studs and open end lugs for a quick, easy installation you can do in your garage. Each one of our adapters are engineered for your ATV with the best CNC equipment in the industry.

4×4 to 4×110 Wheel Adapter

Easily convert any 4×110 bolt pattern atv wheels to fit on any standard Golf Cart application.  Our top quality wheel adapters are made from the highest grade aircraft aluminum. Each of our adapters come with OEM quality studs and open end lugs for a quick, easy installation you can do in your garage. Each one of our adapters are engineered for your vehicle with the best CNC equipment in the industry to ensure a lifetime of use.

4×110 2″ Wheel Spacer

Adding wheel spacers widens the base of your ATV, making it more stable and easier to handle with increased performance in transit. These 2″ spacers and incredibly simple to install and made with top quality billet aluminum for a lifetime of use.

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So, What exactly is Billet anyways?

Billet is a term tossed around frequently and loosely in powersports world, but many people are confused about what billet actually is and why it’s usually expensive. A quick trip to the dictionary tells us that a billet is simply a “bar of metal.” Billets can be made of magnesium or steel or iron or lead, but because of its light weight and relatively low cost (compared with other light metals such as magnesium and titanium), aluminum works best for reducing weight while adding strength and performance. Since pure aluminum is a fairly soft metal, the aluminum most billet accessories are machined from is actually an alloy of aluminum and other metals.

Most popular alloys found in powersports parts is 6061-T6 aluminum. In the 1950s the Aluminum Association adopted a four-digit numerical classification system for aluminum. The first digit, the six, states that this alloy contains aluminum, magnesium, and silicon; giving the alloy good formability, corrosion resistance, and strength. (If the first digit were a one, the metal would be more than 99 percent pure aluminum.) The zero means that special controls to limit particular impurities within the alloy were not incorporated (not a concern in motorcycle applications). The final two digits identify the particular alloy within the aluminum, magnesium, and silicon group. The -T6 designates aluminum alloys that have been thermally treated and artificially aged for additional hardness. So, to sum it all up: 6061-T6 aluminum is a light, strong, corrosion-resistant alloy that is ideally suited for performance.

Since billet aluminum parts start their lives as blocks of aluminum, the finished parts must be carved from these blocks. Lets go through the full process of turning a boring block of aluminum into a part that is ready for retail. When we develop a new part, all of the measurements are taken from the OE part that is being replaced or from where the new part will be mounted. The measurements are then turned into a 3-D wire-frame model on a computer. At this point, styling touches that influence the look and feel of the part can be previewed without cutting a single piece of aluminum. Once the part has been completely designed, the engineer creates the cutter tool list and the carving order that will result in the completed part (like a sculptor progressively removing aluminum from the billet).

Yes, much of a piece of aluminum billet ends up in the recycling bin after a milling machine has extracted a part from within it. Unfortunately, aluminum chips return only pennies on the dollar of the cost of billet aluminum. That fact and the expensive, computer-controlled machinery required to precisely cut each part explain the higher cost of billet accessories. So, if billet parts are expensive to produce why not just die-cast the parts? Simply put, die-cast parts are made from aluminum poured into a mold, therefore it’s difficult to achieve the uniform structure, strength, and flawless finish found in top-quality billet parts. Billet-look or billet-like parts are usually cast items dipped in chrome.

Now, when someone refers to a part as billet, you’ll know what they think they’re talking about.

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