Originally Posted by Josh@STILLEN Sorry.. I probably didn't explain well enough. "Correctly" is probably a bad word to use. It's much better to use a wheel with the offset to
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06-18-2010, 06:12 PM | #1 (permalink) | |
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20mm H&R spacers F/R, lowered on H&R springs, and a good alignment got my rims to look flushed.
Plus the car handles better too! Next mod: Anti sway bars.
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Guys, i've just got my new set of wheels and i'm looking to get a set of spacers for the rear (10mm).
I have been trying to research and understand how it all works, from my understanding the H&R spacers are the ones to go for. My question is the DRS model - where you need to replace your existing studs with the longer ones.. that sounds a bit tricky? Is it hard to remove the original studs? I was told it would require special equipment etc? is this true? If not can't I just go the DRM model? The only problem is that the DRM minimum looks like 15mm. Only other thing i could find was the KICS spacers 10mm which seem to be bolt on as well. I am a bit cautious as they are 2 pieces (the hubcentric part is seperate). Has anyone got any feedback for these ones, or can anyone tell me whether it is a difficult task to replace the original studs with the DRS model? Appreciate any help. Cheers Last edited by 370zee; 06-18-2010 at 08:28 PM. |
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I am not a big fan of bolt-on spacers anyways... I don't really trust them.
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It's really a personal thing for me. I look at bolt-on spacers as adding five additional points of failure. On the track, I'd rather be running a DRS spacer instead of a bolt-on... so that's what I went with. But that's just me, and like I said, I have no evidence to support my belief... I just feel more comfortable with DRS.
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I didn't even need to separatetbe parking brake, with a little wiggling and rotating the rotor i was able to get the new studs in
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Nice. I just looked at the assembly and realized how easy it was to remove the spring and adjusting pin to move the two halves of the brake shoes out of the way so I did it that way.
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Installed 20mm spacers on my PW. It does not rub going straight but when I'm turning and hit a good sized bump I hear a scrape. I really cant tell where it is coming from...If anyone has any experience and has answers to fix it, let me know. I may have to roll the fenders?
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No problem here Mark, with H&R 20mm spacers on Fr with Sport rims. I know you are also running the sport rims. What brand spacers are you running? I have about 2k miles on my spacers and do not hear nor feel any scraping.
If you want to drop to 15mm, I have 2 sets to sell (H&R stud replacement). I also have 20 mm H&R stud replacement 2 sets. |
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Kewl, glad it all worked out. I lub my 20 mm fr and 25mm Rr (H&R) Pass the word to ur bay area buds about my spacers 4sale. In 4 ur pics once the stance and wheels r done.
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