SeanStone
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 05:57 PM |
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Wheel spacing
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?
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marcjagman
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 06:03 PM |
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Look at Leepu and Bernie AKA Chop Shop, they used 6 inch spacers regularly
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tomgregory2000
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 06:04 PM |
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not sure on the handling but the hub bearings will be fine, im running 50mm spacers either side on the back of my car
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SPYDER
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 06:22 PM |
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10mm you say?
What you really need is some of these babies!!!
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steve m
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 06:23 PM |
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were did you get the 50mm spacers ?? as i need some (ford fit 108)
regards
Steve
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tomgregory2000
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 06:55 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by steve m
were did you get the 50mm spacers ?? as i need some (ford fit 108)
regards
Steve
If you type in Hubcentric spacers into google or ebay you will find some, mine are 25mm + 25mm on each side, started off with a 25 on each side and it
looked a bit silly so added the second set on, they are bloody heavy though
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hobbsy
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 07:15 PM |
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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!
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SeanStone
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 07:20 PM |
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So no adverse effects to speak of?
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designer
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 08:02 PM |
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10mm per side is OK without having to do any work on the bearings.
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Bluemoon
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 08:25 PM |
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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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beaver34
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 08:54 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by designer
10mm per side is OK without having to do any work on the bearings.
i ran 30mm each side on a ford ka, plus a lower offset wheel for 3 years never had an issue at all
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SeanStone
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 09:04 PM |
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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
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