H&R Spacer... Lip shaved/broke off?!

daisuke149

I personally wouldnt be too happy if i was told that, hey buy this product, it may break but thats ok you can live with a few vibrations... but thats just me.

edit: not a knock at Stillen, but more at H&R for not taking care of this or trying to look into it. I understand that Josh is simply saying there isnt a safety concern with the H&R.

flashburn

No, it wasn't like that at all. I asked him if he thought it would be okay if I continued to drive on the broken spacers until I got the new ones.

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daisuke149

yeah I understand, i edited my post after i re-read it.

flashburn

Gotcha, yeah... I'm going to contact H&R directly and state my displeasure. I don't expect them to do anything, but I'll bitch at them regardless. I just needed to get replacements ASAP, as even though I've been running this way a while and everything has been fine, now that I found the problem, I'm super paranoid that something bad will happen.

Do we have any other good options for spacers besides H&R and Eibach (which share the same design)?

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kenchan

Kic's. ive been using them for 5-6yrs now on my various cars, never had an issue.

the Eibach's ive used on my Z's fronts are 20mm (built-in stud type) and no issue so far. i agree with ChrisSlicks that it probably has to do with the thickness and reinforcement (or lack of) on the 15mm.

flashburn

Interesting, for the Project Kic ones, the hubcentric ring is optional (sold seperately), and removable. Well, if these don't work out, I'll give those a try.

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kenchan

yah, most people run lug-centric wheels so you dont necessarily need the rings. but for our hub-centric wheels the ring is required.

ichiba's are the same way and their rings are actually the same dimension as the Kics. but the biggest difference between ichiba's and kics was that ichiba's overall craftsmanship is low and there's too much play in the ring making them near useless for hubcentric wheels... that's probably why a lot of folks were getting vibrations using ichiba v2 type on the fronts. their tolerance is too wide making it a hit or miss.

im currently using (i should say testing) 20mm ichiba's on the rear of my G35C running lug-centric aftermarket wheels with no issue for the last 2k miles. i would not use them for the Z's front using stock wheels.