 What's up, everybody? I'm Ibrahim. Welcome back to the channel. If you haven't guessed by the title of the video and, well, the writing on this box today, we are taking a look at a new wheel from NRG Innovations. They sent me, you guys know, I've been doing a lot of racing. And when you have a wheel like my 350 Alcaterra wheel with a big drop down for drifting, it makes it very hard to reach paddles. So that is why I would be using the Forza wheel. Get in focus there. The Forza wheel that came on the Fanatec because it's a flat, flat rim wheel. So this box is definitely going to help me out in the racing endeavor with everything that's going on. So that's enough talk. Let's get to opening this box and actually see what's inside because I'm not 100 percent sure. Right. So we're going to open this up very carefully because, like I said, I'm not sure all of what's in the box. Don't want to really ruin the beautiful energy tape, but I feel like we're going to have to in order to open this up. The dog over here, like, what's in the box? Is it for me? It's not for you. It's not for you, doggo. So, like I said, energy innovations, big sponsor of the channel for a long time now. Big thank you to them for sending this out to me. And we can take a look at what's inside here. We have a different box inside the box. You guys know when I got the Alcaterra wheel. It came in this really nice, you know, box with, you know, inserts and everything like that. Well, it looks like we got another nice, another nice box inside the box. This one's actually really cool. I like this one, too. I get so excited about the boxes that things come in. So, like I said, it's another cool box that I'm going to put on display in my office as well. So without further ado, let's take a look at what's inside. Oh, man. Thank you for trusting our brands. Enjoy energy innovations. And it has a really awesome cover on it, which means my dog wants to see, which means that it is some form of suede. So the dog's trying to get in on this. Oh, what, you want to get in on it? No. OK. So as you can see already, it looks really amazing. It's got not just a sticker horn button. As you can see, it's actually a full, like engraved horn button, which we're definitely going to have to use. And as you can see, it is not a dished spoke. So let's take a look here, take off the covering. And it is a suede and black wheel, just like my other drift wheel. But this one is a flat rim. I definitely love the way the spoke pattern is. This thing looks amazingly cool without the drop down, which will make it easier to get to my paddles. And I love when they come with these fancy little little material tags that show you what material it's actually made out of. This is a beautiful wheel. I'm definitely going to have to mount this on with this horn part on because that just looks amazing. Take a look at that. Take a look. Get it focused in there. It's not like a sticker. It's actually like an engraved wheel with the energy on the bottom. And of course, the energy on the back. The stitching work and this is going to feel really nice. Now, a lot of people would say the spokes being bent up in a weird way is weird for racing, because your hands are up higher. But there's two different styles of driving. There's that way or there's a way where you keep your fingers from going inside and you don't wrap in and you pretty much set them that way. So definitely going to be amazing. You're going to want to get this thing on the rig and get some hot laps and some race cars because the iRacing server and everything that I'm running with now. This is going to be a great addition to my wheel set. We're going to close this up. And, you know, having two beautiful energy wheels, specifically for drifting with a deep dish and not deep dish for racing is going to mean I don't have to use that phantasec one anymore. Definitely big thank you to energy innovations for making this video completely possible and for being a supporter of me and the channel for a very long time. I think it's time we get this on the rig and actually see what we can do. The dog over here. Say hi, Kai. Say hi. Oh, camera. We're going to get this on the rig and we're going to give it a rip. All right, so we got the wheel mounted on the rig. As you can see, we're going to pop this up to quick release. We did get the energy break button and everything installed. So before we get into here, run some hot laps here on our factor, too. We are actually in VR, so I'm using a secondary monitor to see what I'm actually seeing so I can actually touch the wheel and stuff like that. Definitely a very different experience for me, to say the least. So before we actually start doing anything here in our factor, we're going to take a little bit of a different look. So the force of wheel that I was using is actually a little bit smaller. As you can see, it is a 320 versus 350 wheel. So that's something a little bit different. But the biggest and best change is going to be right here on the side. How close my paddles actually are to my wheel. So I did have to do a little bit of modification to get the button in here to fit right. Basically on the button, but my pedals are right there. So my hands are going to be very comfortable. How I like to shift right on the paddle shifters. Now, if you compare that to the, you know, the drift wheel with the drop down spokes, there was no way I could reach the paddles on this. I modified the paddles, moved them around. I can actually move these paddles up a little bit more by moving the whole bracketry up slightly so I can adjust it a little more and move it all up if I wanted to. But it fits real nicely on the Phantek or any 70 mil hub. So we're going to actually get this thing on. If I could see where the hub was, there it is. Get it on the rig. And then we are going to go in car. And we are going to take our M6 GT3 out here on Long Beach, because Long Beach was supposed to be this weekend. So we're going to load in our tune. We're going to run a couple hot laps with our new energy innovations. I got to get gloves so I don't destroy the Alcatara. Going to be ordering maybe some carding gloves or something like that. So let's get to it. First person Long Beach in our M6 GT3. So already feeling the difference, I know there's going to be a little bit of difference going from a smaller 320 wheel to a 350. So it's something I'll have to get adjusted to because you feel like you don't you have to turn more on a smaller rim than you do a bigger rim, because you have more of a, I guess you would say a turning torque. So we're going to come out of it, turn our pit limiter off, which is also nice because I can reach all my buttons. And we're going to get everything heated up here. On this first lap and come in on a flying lap here on Long Beach Circuit in a GT3 with our brand new energy innovations wheels. The wheel already feels great. The thumb placement actually being up below the higher feels more natural for me in the position I would like to keep my hands on a rim. So it's very comfortable. The Alcatara feels really nice on my hands. But like I said, I'm definitely going to want to get some gloves and you can even run it this way with your thumbs on it. And it does feel pretty good, but you don't get that natural turn in as much. So we're definitely using this wheel from trying it out for drifting and to and stuff like that. But for today, we're hot lapping here because the purpose of this wheel is to be for racing. So we're going to see what we can do in a hot lap with the GT3. And already the wheel feels so much better than that leather for the wheel. The 350 diameter is feeling so much nicer. And is actually working quite better for me. The feel is more natural because I'm used to my 350 wheels. So here we go. We're going to take a hot lap here at Long Beach here. We're going across start, finish line, managing the bumps on the front stretch. A little mild turning. We're going to be crossing over and taking a huge breaking line, looking for a second mark. So we're going to hard break down the second gear, cut over. Kind of clip that. Don't clip it too hard. Manage the oversteer down the first through the dangerous fountain turn. Trying to almost clip our mirror on that wall coming out here, breaking at the divider of the wall down in the first. In the second, looking for our breaking marker down in the first there. It was a little bit wider than I wanted to, but right up against the wall that we're going to be cutting over, looking for our 300 breaking point right there, 300 hard break down in the first gear could have taken that turn much tighter on the wall. But we didn't, you know, get our breaking point exact. Managing the pumps to that section, hard break down in the first, almost clip in the wall, run the car all the way out to the wall here onto the stretch here. We're going to be going up into almost fifth gear. We're going to be shifting into fifth right before we start breaking. We're looking for that invisible 400 marker, which is right about there. Invisible 400 down in the second, cutting that rumble strip there. Going to bring it out, hard break in, kind of managing throttle, breaking a little bit. And a hard break in the first gear, a very tight final corner here at Long Beach. And a hot lap here at Long Beach is definitely a very quick lap. Usually about a minute 20 something for me. That one was a minute 23, not my fastest lap, but my line was not exact. So we're going to go run another one. And I feel like I'm already a couple seconds faster. I feel with this wheel, it's a little more precise. Oh, oh, oh, no. That's not what we want to do. We definitely do not want to clip the walls here because you clip the walls and you're done. So we could probably get a little more speed through here and probably a little bit more speed to this section. What's our threshold? Oh, we are actually really high, so we're not getting as much off the turn as we could be coming in right there on the wall. I feel it's definitely helping me with looking at my wall breaking points. So overall impressions of having the 350 wheel on versus the 320. I'm more comfortable with it. It feels much more natural to me where I'm holding it and the feel of the wheel and just having the full rim around and not like the flat bottom wheel is going to feel so much nicer when I need to grab the bottom. And I will also be able to use this for drifting if I really want to, which, you know, we're going to be doing here on the channel. We're going to be pulling out some drifting with this wheel. That was a very skiddy turn. We're going to try and get one more hot lap here. Make sure you follow me on Instagram and Twitter, all the drop the description box below. Once again, a big thank you to NRG Innovations for making this episode possible with this race wheel. This is going to be definitely a great wheel to have in my arsenal with the R Factor 2 racing series and everything that I'm going to be doing with my friends as well as the iRacing series. And the big things are coming with iRacing and everything to the channel. So make sure you guys stay tuned and stay to my Instagram and stuff like that so you guys can see all the updates as they come by. I am not running the cleanest lines. Oh, and I could be a lot faster. My race line is a little bit off. I know. Don't blast me in the comments. Racing the other night with my buddies and I was in 121s and him and I had an amazing battle for about 18 laps until a mistake was made and somebody stuffed it into the wall. But so I think that all about wrap up this video. I hope you guys enjoyed this. Once again, big thank you to NRG Innovations. Definitely an amazing rim and I love the solid and how solid the wheel feels. Can't wait to get into some intense racing with it. And of course, we're going to be drifting to fully test this rim out so there'll be more talks about this wheel and how I feel with the flat spoke rather than the deep dish spoke here on the channel. So make sure you guys come back and tune in. So as always, I thank you guys for watching. I'm Evil Rabbit. I'll see you guys on the track.