Need some help, too many choices
#11
After some digging I think I found what I want to do to finish my car up. I think I'm gonna get an hid kit and go for 6000k for some bright white light, 1.5 in wheel spacers and 1.5 in lowering springs. I guess ill try and sell my gt500 springs to help counter the cost of the new springs. Any opinions on wheel spacers? These will be hub centric btw
#12
After some digging I think I found what I want to do to finish my car up. I think I'm gonna get an hid kit and go for 6000k for some bright white light, 1.5 in wheel spacers and 1.5 in lowering springs. I guess ill try and sell my gt500 springs to help counter the cost of the new springs. Any opinions on wheel spacers? These will be hub centric btw
As far as wheel spacers....a lot of people run them to push the rear wheels out some for a better stance appearance....I personally don't know, never had them.
#13
After some digging I think I found what I want to do to finish my car up. I think I'm gonna get an hid kit and go for 6000k for some bright white light, 1.5 in wheel spacers and 1.5 in lowering springs. I guess ill try and sell my gt500 springs to help counter the cost of the new springs. Any opinions on wheel spacers? These will be hub centric btw
If it's a flush appearance that you're after, why not just get wheels that are wide enough and with a reasonable offset instead, and then run wider tires?
No, I don't like most spacers, none at all if they're only being used for appearance purposes or because of buying a big brake kit that doesn't clear the spokes of the wheels. Spacers either compromise the length of thread engagement if they don't bolt separately to the hub (and the wheels bolt to them) or they involve a separate set of lug nuts that aren't easy to check for tightness.
I did say "most spacers". I do need to use exactly one spacer with one of my 18 x 11 front wheels. It's only 0.6 mm thick (0.025"), and I'm not all that crazy about having to use even that. But it was enough to eliminate a tire to strut rub under moderately hard and harder cornering.
Norm
Last edited by Norm Peterson; 10-08-2014 at 07:35 AM.
#15
Sure. Axle centering and camber & toe adjustments can always be done separately if necessary (and sometimes they are not). If you can find a flat area to sit the car on, you can even measure camber yourself, compare it to spec (or possibly a different setting to better suit your own driving), and go from there just like you would with axle centering.
Norm
Norm
Last edited by Norm Peterson; 10-08-2014 at 09:52 AM.
#16
i did some measuring last night to gauge how i should go about getting wheel spacers. i was really suprised because all the photos i have seen dont come close to how far mine would stick out. ill end up going with 1 inch and save $50
#18
1 inch thick spacers? How much thread engagement would that leave you on the studs? I would be nervous about that setup. Also what does that do to the load on your wheel bearings with the added leverage against them?
Last edited by Genxer; 10-10-2014 at 10:45 PM.
#19
Now you want to effectively change that to +5 mm by adding 25mm spacers. That's 45 mm less that the OE 18 x 8.5 wheels plus half of the difference between your 9" and the 8.5" - or over two whole inches. Never mind that your tires may be wider than 235/50's.
Norm
#20
I ordered the spacers and springs yesterday afternoon (AM please be fast!!) so ill get to see how things go and report back. Ill have my buddy at ford do the springs for me then ill add the spacers at home and see what we r dealing with. worse case scenario is that the spacers dont work out and i send them back to AM for a refund. no biggie. pretty excited. havent ordered new parts in a while.
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