Rich - I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this point. I believe the lugs and lug nuts are plenty strong enough to take the load of the vehicle's weight in addition to whatever impulse and weight transfer is going on at that joint.
Almost every SLC running stock wheels is doing it the same way, one way or another. As I said, as far as I know, every Forgestar wheel delivered with an SLC came with a plastic insert to align the wheels. I've done this wheel installation method on a Mustang that I used to track and I've been doing it with the SLC so far. My experience with those plastic rings is they deteriorate and fail with heat and can't take any kind of load anyway. They're there strictly for alignment purposes, not load bearing.
If the vehicle's weight load is constantly orbiting around the wheel as it rotates then you've got a loose wheel.
No hubcentric wheel is an exact fit to the hub, it's a loose fit in all cases so it's semantics as to how much "loose" is. Otherwise you'd have to heat the wheels up in order to install them. Or bang them into place, neither of which is a good solution.
Not to discount your experience, but I suspect your experience with loose wheels was driven by factors other than hubcentric vs non.
For the purposes of this discussion I'm defining hubcentric as a wheel that is closely matched, but slightly oversized, in diameter to the hub.
Almost every SLC running stock wheels is doing it the same way, one way or another. As I said, as far as I know, every Forgestar wheel delivered with an SLC came with a plastic insert to align the wheels. I've done this wheel installation method on a Mustang that I used to track and I've been doing it with the SLC so far. My experience with those plastic rings is they deteriorate and fail with heat and can't take any kind of load anyway. They're there strictly for alignment purposes, not load bearing.
If the vehicle's weight load is constantly orbiting around the wheel as it rotates then you've got a loose wheel.
No hubcentric wheel is an exact fit to the hub, it's a loose fit in all cases so it's semantics as to how much "loose" is. Otherwise you'd have to heat the wheels up in order to install them. Or bang them into place, neither of which is a good solution.
Not to discount your experience, but I suspect your experience with loose wheels was driven by factors other than hubcentric vs non.
For the purposes of this discussion I'm defining hubcentric as a wheel that is closely matched, but slightly oversized, in diameter to the hub.