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Good info all around. The long and short of it is: it's complicated. No single factor determines the strength of a wheel, and most of the time, with each upgrade to the manufacturing process, there is a choice to go for an increase in strength, or a reduction in weight.
Design, as swamp noted, is very important, and without advanced engineering analysis, that's not something that can readily determined.
I am no metallurgist, but I deal with a lot of wheels of pretty much any production process imaginable, and other than the fact that forged > cast, it's extremely hard to generalize. And even then, some excellent cast wheels may end up serving better than poorly forged wheels.
So the 8000 ton *could* allow for a stronger wheel, but it does not guarantee it.
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