Ricer rims? Options

[Brad Smith]

A newbie question:

Are there adapters to put "ricer" rims on the 914? There are literally HUNDREDS of sizes and styles available, but alas, in 4x108 bolt pattern. I realize it would probably be a spacer arrangement with the spacers bolted to the existing hole location and studs or lugs in the spacers... the question is, are those available? I also realize it would probably only work on a car with flares... ok, no big deal. If they aren't available, I can get a friend to make me some, (he has a lathe, mill, etc at home) but wanted to look for commercial products first.

Brad

[Mueller]

properly designed and made adapters are fine when going from 4x130 to 4x100 BC...the main problem you'll run into is that the "ricer" rims won't have enough offset to fit under the totally stock fenders..at least in the rear...you can easily fit 7" wide rims up front and the 1" adapter will be just about perfect with a 40mm offset rim....for the rear, 35mm offset is ideal for a 7" wide rim

i did the redrilled hubs/flanges last year, I didn't feel comfortable with the front hubs due to how I had to remove material from the inside of the rotor hub, I also had to turn down the hubcentric ring (both the height and the dia.)

another issue with redrilling the fronts, is that when the rotor wears out, you have to get another set of rotors and redrill them.

for the rear flanges, you actually end up with more material for the studs since the flange is thicker as in tapers towards the middle...so it should be stronger than the stock pattern...however, the smaller BC means that you need to re-drill the rotor and this is what I didn't like about this modification...the large hole in the middle of the rotor is approx. 3.75", the new bolt pattern is 3.93", what happens is that the thru holes for the studs breaks into the 3.75" hole in the middle of the rotor....more than likely it's okay, but I didn't want to deal with it.............so I sold my "ricer" rims and threw the redrilled hubs and flanges in the dumpster

now with the new billet front hubs, a 4x100 BC is no problem on the fronts...except you'd still want to run spacers to move the wheel outboard some due to the offsets options


hope all this rambling makes some sense, LOL

4 to 4 adapters = good
4 to 5 adapters = bad
5 to 5 adapters = good