To fit some metro 4 pot calipers I believe i need to space the wheel away from the caliper by around 10mm. Is this too much? Will it be too detrimental to the handling and hub bearings?

Look at Leepu and Bernie AKA Chop Shop, they used 6 inch spacers regularly

not sure on the handling but the hub bearings will be fine, im running 50mm spacers either side on the back of my car

10mm you say?
What you really need is some of these babies!!!

were did you get the 50mm spacers ?? as i need some (ford fit 108)


regards

Steve

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Originally posted by steve m
were did you get the 50mm spacers ?? as i need some (ford fit 108)


regards

Steve

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If you buy steel ones then they'll weigh a ton (I bought some by mistake). They were 25mm and weighed about 2.25kg each! That was almost half the weight of the wheel!!!

Ally will be approx 1/3 of the weight and is the way to go!

So no adverse effects to speak of?

10mm per side is OK without having to do any work on the bearings.

Not so sure it is o.k, if you are correcting for wheels with the wrong offset, then yes (if hub-centric). Other wise you need to think about what it's doing to the geometry/forces on the wheels. Personally I'd rather have wheels with the correct offset/width for the car.

But at a guess 10mm sounds small enough to to worry to much (but I have no practical experience of using spacers).

Dan

[Edited on 6/2/10 by Bluemoon]

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Originally posted by designer
10mm per side is OK without having to do any work on the bearings.

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I'm putting calipers on that protrude past where the disc presses against the wheel. So it needs to be space. I'm using rs2000 13" wheels and behind them will be metro 4 pot calipers with xt2 discs