 Wheels and tires and spacers, OH MY! |
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| bondo |
 Dec 16 2005, 06:10 PM
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Practicing my perpendicular parking  Group: Members Posts: 4,277 Joined: 19-April 03 From: Los Osos, CA Member No.: 587 Region Association: Central California  |
So I'm test fitting the 16x9's with tire on the flared car to try and get the spacer issue sorted.
In the rear, one 5mm spacer does the trick. In the front, two 5 mm spacers and 2mm of washers (for a total of 12mm) and the tire still rubs on the strut. Is it common to need more spacer in the front? I can help the situation by getting narrower front tires, but it won't solve it. It loons like I need 20mm of spacer minimum, 25 to be safe. At that point I start to worry if it'll hit the flare. pics: Attached image(s) 
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| bondo |
Dec 16 2005, 06:11 PM
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Practicing my perpendicular parking Group: Members Posts: 4,277 Joined: 19-April 03 From: Los Osos, CA Member No.: 587 Region Association: Central California |
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| bondo |
Dec 16 2005, 06:12 PM
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Practicing my perpendicular parking Group: Members Posts: 4,277 Joined: 19-April 03 From: Los Osos, CA Member No.: 587 Region Association: Central California |
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| bondo |
Dec 16 2005, 06:12 PM
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Practicing my perpendicular parking Group: Members Posts: 4,277 Joined: 19-April 03 From: Los Osos, CA Member No.: 587 Region Association: Central California |
another angle: (last pic)
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| McMark |
Dec 16 2005, 06:13 PM
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914 Freak! Group: Retired Admin Posts: 20,179 Joined: 13-March 03 From: Grand Rapids, MI Member No.: 419 Region Association: None |
Royce, crawl under the car and pull the torsion bar end caps on both sides. Then you can drop it to any height you want and check fitment. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)
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| bondo |
Dec 16 2005, 06:26 PM
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Practicing my perpendicular parking Group: Members Posts: 4,277 Joined: 19-April 03 From: Los Osos, CA Member No.: 587 Region Association: Central California |
Not without more spacers! The reason the front is sitting so high in the pic is because the upper part of the strut came down and hit the tire! I just checked the front with a wheel that doesn't have a tire on it. it takes 12mm of spacer for the wheel to not contact the strut! |
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| rick 918-S |
Dec 16 2005, 06:49 PM
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Hey nice rack! -Celette Group: Members Posts: 20,457 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Now in Superior WI Member No.: 43 Region Association: Northstar Region 
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IIRC Brad said it's good to run wider track in the front. From the looks of the wheels to flares you've got lots of room. I think My wheels are spaced 125mm
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| bondo |
Dec 16 2005, 06:57 PM
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Practicing my perpendicular parking Group: Members Posts: 4,277 Joined: 19-April 03 From: Los Osos, CA Member No.: 587 Region Association: Central California |
125mm? That's almost 5 inches! That'd be quite a spacer! It looks like I'll need a 1" spacer in the front to make the backspacing close to a 7" cookie cutter (which fits). Anyone know of a cheap place for 1" 4 lug spacers? |
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| rick 918-S |
Dec 16 2005, 07:02 PM
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Hey nice rack! -Celette Group: Members Posts: 20,457 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Now in Superior WI Member No.: 43 Region Association: Northstar Region
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Ooops, I mean 1.25" (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/screwy.gif)
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| SirAndy |
Dec 16 2005, 07:15 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,636 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
plenty of space to go wider in the front. i see at least another 1" in there ... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif) Andy |
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| Mueller |
Apr 17 2006, 03:18 PM
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914 Freak! Group: Members Posts: 17,146 Joined: 4-January 03 From: Antioch, CA Member No.: 87 Region Association: None
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I found a company that'll make replacement outer shells for those rims....I wish I had found this place when I still owned those 16x9s you know have (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)
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