wheel spacers

[fez601]

hi everyone,i would like to fit wheel spacers to my 1984 944.not sure what size to get for both the front and back? i would like my car to have that wide look,but at the same time it as to be legal for mot! any help i would be gratefull for.i dont want to buy the wrong size as they are not a cheap item.cheers billy

 

[Diver944]

If it's purely for cosmetic reasons so that your existing wheels fill the arches a bit more then simply measure the clearance between your tyre and the wheel arch and buy a spacer correspondingly from somewhere like: [link=http://www.jasmine-motorsport.co.uk/]http://www.jasmine-motorsport.co.uk/[/link] [link=http://www.design911.co.uk/]http://www.design911.co.uk/[/link] [link=http://www.type-911.co.uk/]http://www.type-911.co.uk/[/link] Be aware that increasing the track of your car will affect the handling and also put more strain on your wheel bearings and axles

 

[J.C944TurboMan]

I just recently bought some from Jasmine and they are really good quality . I used a metal ruller and measured from the edge of my tyre to flush with the wheel arch and ordered that size , allow a few MM for the inner lip on the rear wheel arch

 

[944 man]

Make sure that you buy hubcentric spacers. The wheels weight is borne by the hubcentic lip, not the wheel studs. Non hubcentric spacers are an accident waiting to happen. You really need spacers which incorporate new studs: to save cost you can fit the long studs with matching spacers from the rear of an early car onto the front, so that you only need to buy them for the rear. The exchange rate is poor now, but the parts you need can still be bought relatively cheaply from Canada/America. Simon

 

[J.C944TurboMan]

How do these spacer's messure up ? £90 for a pair but as you say , it is very important to fit good quality spacers and they are very light too.