Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with wheel spacers on there fd. I wanna have the sleeper look but the rims look like they sit in too far now that i lowered my car. I got the v6 mustang look lol

 

I wouldn't do it. Go with new wheels.

 

have you tryed them? i would go with new wheels but id rather spend $5000 on an ecu upgrade, injectors and intercooler since my car is now street ported

 

i dont see why everyone is so against spacers? if you get hub centric spacers, its fine. otherwise you wouldnt see just as many race cars from nascar, le mans, and jgtc having them as there are.

 

Show me one race car that uses wheel spacers. That does not happen.

That is not to say that a well designed wheel spacer can't be used on a street car.

Andrew

 

are the eibach ones hub centric? y would a race team use them when they could just get wider wheels or different offsets?

 

I have yet to hear of one wheel bearing failure due to spacers being used, people just take this lever arm theory and run with it. I would love to hear one real world example of a spacer causing catastrophic failure, not a theory or opinion but a real substantive historical fact.

 

I use wheel spacers on a race car. I just use ARP wheel studs if I'm playing with track width with spacers. They are cheap insurance, and if nobody uses them racing why do they make them 3" long or longer?

 

whats the widest spacer you can use without any other mod?

 

This would just be a personal preference but I wouldn't go over 1/2". Usually your studs will keep you from going thicker. You should have threads that equal the dia. of the stud covered by your lug nuts, I try to have a few extra threads over that. I don't know the strength of the stock studs but remember the valley of the thread is the weakest point. When you start loading that point in shear you better have confidence in your studs. $15 bucks a wheel is cheap for the good studs.

 

andrew....dont get all cocky when your the one who cant back up your statement. Ill show when i have time to, but seeing how its 12:15 and im a sophmore, i need sleep in order to get my *** up at 6.

 

So i can answer this question to the "T" with the size spacer and tire you can use if you can tell me what size tire you're currently running.

Is it the stock FD wheel? 16x8 +50". I'd say you can run about a 10mm to 15mm spacer on that in the front and about a 25mm to 30mm in the rear. Now the issue is that you have about 25mm of stud, so if the spacer is only 15mm wide, you still have 10mm of stud that will stick past it and interfere with the mating surface on the wheel pad. The FD wheel has a cavity to suck up about 5mm of that stud, still have 5mm left. I've used hubcentric Forged Spacers for some time now without any problems. The only sport i see them often used in is Drifting. lolz.

Tell me the wheel and i'll tell you the spacer for the front and the rear.

Rishie

 

Im just running stock 93 wheels right now. do u know what the widest tire is that will fit on the stock rims? i wanna upgrade from 225 to at least 245.