Spacers or get the wheel machined?

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Adam_NAclubman
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Spacers or get the wheel machined?

Postby Adam_NAclubman » Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:47 pm

I started rolling my guards to fit my new wheels yesterday, the SSR Mk2's I bought from ES86. Rolled and pumped the front drivers side, then went to test fit a wheel... Not enough clearance for my brakes, I'm sure they fited fine on his NA6 but they don't on my NA8

So because the back of the spokes don't have a bowl machined/cast into them to clear wider calipers, I need to either run spacers or get them machined. Problem is, I'm not too keen on either solution. Spacers will just pus them even further out into the guards, though I think I'd only need about a 5mm slip-on, and I don't know if taking more metal out of the back of the spokes will make a difference to the strength of the wheels

Blue texta is where it's impacting

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Any ideas/thoughts/feelings?

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Spacers or get the wheel machined?

Postby bruce » Sat Aug 09, 2008 1:23 pm

That is a lot of metal to be taking out of the wheels.

Can you do anything with the calipers ? (I doubt it)

Methinks spacers are the easiest solution. Are the studs long enough to allow for that?

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Spacers or get the wheel machined?

Postby Adam_NAclubman » Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:58 pm

I guess 5 or 6mm spacers on a 8 +12 isnt too bad, tried the rears, the don't hit thank christ, spacers with 8.5 +6 wouldnt work at all lol

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Spacers or get the wheel machined?

Postby Sheck » Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:09 pm

see if you can grind anything off of the calipers, doubt it but it may be a good solution


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