Wheel Spacer Thread

[Kenton199]

If anyone has photos of wheel spacers installed, or wants to discuss their experience/opinion with them(good or bad) please share!

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[Stupefyer]

With stock wheels, this is how +25mm spacers will look like. No rubbing at all.

 

[Chief lazy leaf]

Ran the +20/25 combo. Noticable change when driving it hard around turns. Used them anytime I swap back to stock rims. Have to do the fender tab mod when lowered. I'm lowered on Swift springs.

 

[Kenton199]

Ran the +20/25 combo. Noticable change when driving it hard around turns. Used them anytime I swap back to stock rims. Have to do the fender tab mod when lowered. I'm lowered on Swift springs.

Is that noticeable change a positive or negative one?

 

[Chief lazy leaf]

Is that noticeable change a positive or negative one?

Positive. You can push a little harder in the turns. Regular driving feels the same.

 

[bugboy32337]

I've just installed a set of GarageLine spacers (20mm up front, 25mm out back).
Having grown up around hot rod REAR wheel drive cars, I am used to the idea of WIDER in the rear.
However, with FRONT wheel drive cars, it never really made any sense.
THAT said, this stagger really works aesthetically. It seems to push the rears out just enough to look even with the front track ... and on my Si Coupe, it looks pretty muscular.

I am really just running spacers to see chat kinds of offset I want to use with the aftermarket wheels that I'll (hopefully) be getting in a few months.

Before Spacers

With Spacers

 

[bugboy32337]

On another note ... when I was installing the spacers, I did run into an interesting situation.
Car in gear, Parking Brake was set.
The front hubs would still rotate, when I was torquing them.
Has anyone found a way to keep them from rotating, when torquing the nuts for the spacers?

 

[TypeSiR]

On another note ... when I was installing the spacers, I did run into an interesting situation.
Car in gear, Parking Brake was set.
The front hubs would still rotate, when I was torquing them.
Has anyone found a way to keep them from rotating, when torquing the nuts for the spacers?

Inserting a screwdriver into the side of the rotor right before the caliper usually does the trick.

 

[bugboy32337]

Inserting a screwdriver into the side of the rotor right before the caliper usually does the trick.

Damn ... that's darn nifty!

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