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 posted on 7/10/05 at 04:04 PM |
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Safe use of wheel spacers
Ok folks, I've only been on the road a few weeks and i've noticed the front wings bounce a lot more than any other Seven type car,
I've narrowed it down to the fact that I've used Focus wheels on the Cortina hubs and the offsets are all to pot.
This means that the mounting studs for the front wings are 3 times longer than normal.
The question is which sizes do wheel spacers come in ( I need to move around 20-25mm), will they look stupid and how is a good supplier?
An additional bonus would be that the rear wheels would fill out the arches better.
Save me from having to buy another set of wheels of the correct offset.
ATB Dan.
 
Pre sva 02
 
panels on 2
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ned
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| posted on 7/10/05 at 04:09 PM |
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i think chrisw mentioned speedshack does lots of bolt/spacer type bits. i see what you mean about the wing mount dan. best get the offset right, may
improve the handling aswell and should put the geometry in a better position.
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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SeaBass
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| posted on 7/10/05 at 05:07 PM |
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I spaced my wheels out as they were special option RS wheels for the sierra. I ended up using some Grayston Engineering spacers and long studs from
Burton Power... They make them in various sizes. I simply calculated the difference in offset between the wheels and bought the closest sized spacers.
This will retain the same loading on the wheel bearings.
I'd suspect that without spacers you are putting a different load on the bearings even though the car is very light.
http://www.graystonengineering.com/wheelnutmenu.htm
Cheers
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RazMan
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| posted on 10/10/05 at 09:29 PM |
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Rally Design do a good range of spacers and oversize studs/bolts. One tip - make sure to get the hubcentric variety or you may suffer with wheel
wobble issues.
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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