Negative effects of 101.6mm spacers?

[chmercer]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...15803

how do these work?

[nismofly]

[whiterps13]

some people just need to be slapped.

[SmithSR]

Ah hah!

A customer recently asked for some of these.His car:1975 Porsche 911 S.widebody kitrear hub to fender edge is 8.25"

Porsche built the original widebody cars with 17x9.5" and a 1" spacer OEM!

Hartmann Wheels offers this:

17x11" with 4" lip!9.5" width, 120.5mm backspace Plus 3" spacer will cover 8" to fit the Widebody.

Using the readily available 8.5" width 17" daimeter porsche turbo twist wheel one could adapt the 4" to make a flush fit on the kit cars.

This saves the Porsche builder about $1k per wheel, to use a cast reproduction replica instead of the 11" wide 3piece exotics!

[chmercer]

how do they even work without falling off the car? thats what im trying to figure out.

[nismofly]

did they use the spacers even on the old widebody porsche racecars? im sure those teams dished out to have spacer-less wheels right?

[SeVa-S13]

Those are like adapters but don't change the bolt pattern. You bolt the spacer to the hub as you would a wheel then bolt the wheel to the spacer as you would normally. These types of spaccers eliminate the need for extended lugs.

[chmercer]

no dude. obviously i know how a bolt on spacer works. but how does it no bend or distort, seeing as how its 4 inches thick. thats what im trying to figure out

[InsanityInc]

strong metal I guess. Probably weighs a good 5 or 6 pounds though. I'm not sure why you would get a widebody kit if you weren't going to get really low offset wide wheels...

[chmercer]

maybe somone has a set of really low offset wide wheels that they use for daily driving because the tires cost like 250 a piece, and they have drift spares, but they are all high offset, and their car looks like a hovercraft when they put them on?

[SmithSR]

^^basically that is how it works.They are set up to fill the massive wheel well gap on the widest of porshe widebody.

The original circa 1975 Widebody used a bolt on 1" spacer on the original 9.5" wide wheel.

Sick, yo

[sleepyRPS13]

porsche must have a bulletproof wheel bearings

[chmercer]

^^basically that is how it works.They are set up to fill the massive wheel well gap on the widest of porshe widebody.

The original circa 1975 Widebody used a bolt on 1" spacer on the original 9.5" wide wheel.

Sick, yo

so, the only reason they dont self destruct is because of their very large mass? also i was wondering, porsches use wheel bolts dont they?

anyway.

the reason i post this, is obviously 4 inch spacers are over the top, but ive been trying to find some cheap wheels that i could use for spares that wouldnt look attrociously bad. only thing ive been able to come up with is a turbo starion rear wheel with a 50mm bolt on to come anywhere near the fender. much bigger than 50mm and i would kindof start to worry.

does anyone know of any pseudo low offset wheels for factory application, or any really cheap aftermarket wheels? besides circle track wheels. thats my last hope, haha

[sultan]

there's always those heavy mustang wheels on ebay but the offsets are still weak.

i don't know what your definition of cheap is but for hozigen prices you can get 16x9.5 or 17x9.5 centerlines in whatever backspacing you want. the lowest they have is 4.5" backspace (-19mm offset) but they also have 5" (-6) or 5.5" (+6). the wheels are forged and strong, but they're not the lightest. there's several different styles to choose from. http://www.centerlinewheels.com - click on build wheels for your 4 or 5-lug vehicle.

or you could put some speakers on the outside of the car and play a hovercar sound effect as you float along the course.
Modified by sultan at 10:21 AM 7/22/2005

[chmercer]

damn thats not bad. thoes ventura ones i bet would look pretty decent without the center caps. i found some diamond racings 16x8 1" backspace for 65$ a pop, i think im gonna try thoes out, but dang i might have to hit up thoes 17x9.5 later on down the road. cooler than 5zigens anyway. and polished is always freakin hot.

[sultan]

1" backspace? that's like -89mm offset

they'll actually stick out about half inch more than your current rears, but for $65 they're worth it.