10mm spacers on the front?
- Thread starter leepox
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The max spacer you can fit on stock studs is 7mm, 10mm will fit but that's your choice.
Emc sell spacers with studs but I found they caused vibration at speed so got some solid 10mm spacers for the Front by cargraphic
Could fit spacers and wheels see if you like it then do the studs after? Pulling the studs in thought hub needs opened steel nuts
Emc sell spacers with studs but I found they caused vibration at speed so got some solid 10mm spacers for the Front by cargraphic
Could fit spacers and wheels see if you like it then do the studs after? Pulling the studs in thought hub needs opened steel nuts
I have 15mm spacers on the front of mine with the original CS rims. The spacer bolts to the hub, the wheel is bolted to the spacer. Hubcentric spacers shouldn't introduce a vibration (the centre hole locates the spacer, the studs just hold it in place).
Consider the effect the change in offset has on the scrub radius & handling as well as the looks [
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Consider the effect the change in offset has on the scrub radius & handling as well as the looks [
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944 man
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ORIGINAL: Riverside
I have 15mm spacers on the front of mine with the original CS rims. The spacer bolts to the hub, the wheel is bolted to the spacer. Hubcentric spacers shouldn't introduce a vibration (the centre hole locates the spacer, the studs just hold it in place).
Consider the effect the change in offset has on the scrub radius & handling as well as the looks [
How does it feel Malc? Speeds up and livens up the steering at the expense of the safer handling in the event of a puncture?
Neil Haughey
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To some extent braking as well. Its an odd interesting little side point as I had to go down from 20mm spacers to 10 on the front when I tried running 245 wide tyres as the car was so low the tyres rubbed. Doing some quick brake tests to try and scrub the tyres the first thing I noted was how fantastically stable the car was on the brakes. Turn in with the wider spacers is really great though, big G numbers come easily once the car is setup properly. Its another interesting little side bit but since I started running a logger I have noted that braking g forces are barely any different or better to what I measured when I had my road car S2. Maybe 0.1g better peak but that is only a blip. The transformation into race car massively increases cornering potential though which I guess is realistic given that without aero the cars are just not going to brake that much better.
My front rims have a 65 offset so the spacer takes that back to 50. D90's & most other late 944/968 rims have a 53 front offset so it's not that much of a risk really, and if you get a puncture in any car just stay off the brakes & let the car slow down on it's own [8D]
The main reason was to put the scrub radius to the inside half of the contact patch for better feedback & initial turn-in response. The wider front track (no spacers on the rear of mine) decreases understeer (and increases oversteer) so mine is set up with a slight nose down attitude to compensate. I've never timed my car at any track so I couldn't say whether it's faster but it's more forgiving and allows me to play with trail braking to tuck the nose in on corner entry and wag the tail if I choose [
]The spacers were from Jasmine I think but any reputable motorsport specialist should be able to supply them.
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