How close is too close?: Gap between tire & spring perch

[kodyo]

Originally Posted by Mr.ac

Any pics? That will help out.

Here's a picture to clarify to anyone else that may read this in the future:

Originally Posted by solidONE

That's the kind you don't want to use. You want to run hubcentric ones with a 56.1mm bore

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...A&gclsrc=aw.ds

Figured that was the case. Unfortunately, these are the only set I could find in 3mm. There is a store in Houston that sells 5mm ones, but you have to extend lugs (which I could do, but don't want to). I can probably make these work for the track day and order a better set now so I don't have to use these shitty ones. Much appreciated.

[solidONE]

Originally Posted by kodyo

Here's a picture to clarify to anyone else that may read this in the future:




Figured that was the case. Unfortunately, these are the only set I could find in 3mm. There is a store in Houston that sells 5mm ones, but you have to extend lugs (which I could do, but don't want to). I can probably make these work for the track day and order a better set now so I don't have to use these shitty ones. Much appreciated.

You wouldn't need new studs for a 5mm spacer. I've run the same on 17x9 +45 wheels (up to 245 tires and -3* of camber), and remember there is just enough amount of threads. Any bigger a spacer you will require longer studs.

I dont see any marks on the tire from the spring perch. You should be fine. Or bring the tire pressure up to 40psi cold and see if it will make contact. If not, you should be good.

[solidONE]

Just a heads up. I added 5mm spacers to my front wheels just now for clear these 255 tires (front camber maxed) after reinstalling my factory coils and was able to get 8 threads of engagement on the stock studs. 8x1.25 = 10mm of engagement on the treads. Should be plenty safe.

[kodyo]

I got rid of the shitty ones today and put the hubcentric ones on. Was hearing some vibrations on a long drive, so hopefully that was it. I ended up sticking with 3mm. Glad I put spacers in, I went off track last week.