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Offline brough74

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Wheel spacers
« on: April 16, 2013, 09:25:09 am »
After running my winter wheels which were ET46 and filled the arch nicely, ive put my monza's back on which sit way in.

So what size spacers can i run ? The car is not lowered.

I was thinking about 6mm (which is the difference in offset) but i dont think you can get hubcentric spacers in that size.

Also i think i would need longer bolts etc.
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Re: Wheel spacers
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2013, 03:31:57 pm »
Not sure of the ET for the Monza's, but would guess around ET54'ish so you could run upto around 10mm on the front and 15mm on the rears. And yes longer bolts would bre required.

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Re: Wheel spacers
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2013, 04:03:17 pm »
You can run 7.5 ET30 on the rear, I have 20mm spacers on mine. giving me a final rear ET of 36 and I have plenty of room with a 225/45.
Put a 10 on the front and 20 on the rear. Buy H&R spacers you get bolts with them... and the rears are DRA-Bolt On types.

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Re: Wheel spacers
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2013, 08:42:08 pm »
After running my winter wheels which were ET46 and filled the arch nicely, ive put my monza's back on which sit way in.

So what size spacers can i run ? The car is not lowered.

I was thinking about 6mm (which is the difference in offset) but i dont think you can get hubcentric spacers in that size.

Also i think i would need longer bolts etc.
I had 8mm spacers on the oem 18" wheels with hub-centric rings. The drawback is you need longer bolts with them. I'd recommend 5mm spacers and eliminate the need for the bolts. Even with 5mm spacers...you will barely have 4 to 5 full turns of the oem bolts.
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Re: Wheel spacers
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2013, 09:06:59 pm »
I have a set of H&R 8mm hubcentric spacers and bolts in the for sale section right now...

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