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[87crxdx]

how can i make my wheels be more spaced out and have them just stick out the body like something like this car has here, plz help, i to get this with the stock 13's, help me out, or do i just need wide rims??

[86whiteSi]

Buy some mexican rims. LOL J/k . But you probably will have to buy a wider rim. I don't know for sure...

[boman]

There has to be spacers available. I know Vdub guys who run on those crazy 13x7
rims get spacers for extra wideness.

JAKOB

[CloseCall]

That is a cool idea! Let me know if you get it worked out as i would definetly like to do that to my rex...

[mbslater]

You could get wheel spacers that would slip between your wheels and hub, but you want to consider a few things. You want to make sure your lugs are long enough to deal with that extra width so that you have plenty of threads left for the lug nuts. I'd guess that anything over 1/8 of an inch would leave you with insufficient threads. (That's just a guess, don't quote me.) Also, cheap spacers will not provide the correct hub-centric ring for the wheels to mount propperly. Expensive spacers made specifically for your car usually will.

A better alternative would be wider wheels with the appropriate offset. Some 7- or 8-inch wheels would certainly do the trick and support some wide tires. Depending on how the rest of the car is modified, you'll either look like a heavily prepared autocross car or the guy hanging around the local panaderia (Spanish bakery).

[FG!!]

yup, h&r makes spacers. try and get hubcentric ones or the wheels are gonna vibrate. unfortunateley they don't have the spacers part numbers listed on there web-site for our cars. call h&r and talk to them, 888-827-8881.

rule of thumb for lugs is that they should have atleast seven turns.

or you can get wide wheels.

or you can get wheels with lower offset.

you might have to roll or cut the fender's lip or pull your fenders.

[Disco Stu]

My experience with wheel spacers:
When I got my Fastbrakes kit, I tried using stock 15" wheels, but they banged against the bigger calipers, so I needed wheel spacers. Got a set from Livermore Performance, ran me $119 for each pair for 15mm spacers for our 4x100 lug pattern cars. You can go as little as 5mm with new studs or as much as 25mm which get fastened to the hub with the included special nuts and have its own lug studs. Each kit included 2 hub-centric aluminum/magnesium spacers as well as longer lug studs. So I jet my car jacked up, pop off the front tire, and hammer out the first old lug... only to find that I needed a hydraulic press to press the hub out so that I could get the old lugs out and get the new ones in, then press the hub back in. The rears, however, did not need the hydraulic press, and came off with just a tug once the spindle nut was off. I ended up taking the car to my local trustworthy mechanic who got the fronts in.
All in all, I would say if you can afford it, just get wider rims, which will hold the tire better.

Livermore Performance's site: http://www.livermore..... Spacers.html

Edited by Disco Stu, 08 March 2003 - 10:44 PM.

[87crxdx]

great thanks i hope i can find a set of spacers around here not too expensive, 120u.s. a pair is a lot that would sound expenisive up here like 180 a pair ouch