Spacers with closed lugs
 

Looking to get some 5mm and 12mm spacers, and will need extended studs. I'm also in Chicago, so I need to deal with road salt -- I want to avoid rusting out open lugs.

Is anyone using closed lugs with extended-stud spacers? I wonder if there's a place I can order studs to a perfect size, or if I'd need to go big and find a way to cut them down.

You can try the nismo studs, not sure if they'll be long enough for 12mm spacers though. They're between the length of stock studs and ARP studs.

Try Project Kics REVO 40s. They're extended open-ended studs but with caps (to keep gunk out of your threads). A few other mfgs are making these with caps as well.

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Good idea, just cannot do this with 5mm spacers + ARP studs. Possible on 12mm, definitely OK with 15mm spacer.

The ARP studs extend around 7-10mm past end of R40.

-alex

Good to know, thanks!

I'm using some Muteki SR35 right now. Sounds like I'll need to find out the required length and hunt on ARP/etc. for comparable studs.

Which nismo wheel lugs will work for brz?

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Do you want lugs, or studs? Any M12x1.25 lugs will work. If you're looking for the studs, not sure which ones are a direct fit, but Nismo definitely makes a set that works. I went with ARP instead.

i meant nismo studs. is it any stronger than oem brz studs? i read somewhere that they are about the same material

Hey, would you also know how much longer the arp studs are compared to stock? I've tried searching on google and mfgr sites but can't seem to find the numbers...or maybe I'm just not searching the right words :(

It's much longer, if I remember tomorrow I'll take a picture of stock studs next to a pack of new ARP studs.

If you need to run any spacer larger than what the ARP studs can accommodate, you're doing it all wrong... but to answer your question, in terms of length it's over 1" longer than stock.

-alex

that would be super helpful! thanks man!

well that's what i'm trying to avoid. im trying to find out what the largest spacer that would fit on the ARP studs is, so i can stay below that limit. thanks for the answer on it being over 1" longer. im trying to decide between 20mm or 25mm spacers and wasn't sure about the 25mm fitment. thanks!

I fit 20mm spacers perfectly fine with plenty of thread. If I were to guess, 30mm is the max with ARP studs.

-alex

Honestly, if you're looking at 20mm or more, you should probably be getting bolt on spacers anyway.

im not sure if the difference is so minimal that it wont matter, and ive been trying to read as much info as i can find the past week... but from ive read around so far, extended studs with sandwich spacers are "better" than bolt-on spacers.

reasons seem to be because for bolt-on spacers, the wheel bolts on to the new studs on spacer, and the spacer is bolted on the hub with original studs. this creates more "points" where it could fail? but for extended studs (especially arp studs being stronger) with sandwich spacers, there'd be less "points" where it could fail. am i understanding that wrong? or is it just negligible enough to not make a difference?

thanks