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Originally Posted by AMPLIFIED
Word of Advice, if your going to run a spacer ALWAYS get a hub centric spacer. Non hub centric are known to move around and are not really safe. Hub Centric Spacer are safe, i have a couple friends that road race with hub centric spacers on and never have problems!
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I had a set of
non-centric (didn't know that at the time) on a Cobra that I tried in order to put Goodyear 315 DR's on the rear and clears the IRS bolts. I have to say that whenever I cornered the backend of the car never felt "safe" or stable as it always felt like the back wheels were never solidly connected to the wheel housing. I would always feel a very slight wobble in the rear wheels when cornering in the slightest...particularly on highway exit ramps.
I learned later on that with the non-centric spacers that with any hard-launch from a standstill I was risking snapping the studs each time. Fortunately I never had them on the car long enough to have that happen.
Not soon after I switched to a Nitto 315 DR's which are about a 3/4" less wide than the Goodyear ones so I was able to eliminate the spacers all together as they cleared the IRS bolt due to being less wide. It was like night and day in terms of the backend
without the non-centric spacers.
I learned from that whole experience to "Just say 'NO' to non-centric spacers".