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oldcorollas
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Re: Incorrect offset, spacers, hub spacers, engineering.. HELP

Sat, 01 May 2004 10:24

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I was waiting for someone to bring this up.
Buy new rims, No. Im not going to go into the reasons.
And no, rwd rims on a rwd car, no full sik.

The thing im most worried about is the weight of the car on the studs, and from what ive gathered here, hub centric spacers solve this problem (i hope this is correct, otherwise ive misunderstood everything)
And the effect that it will ahve on the track, which im still trying to gather info on.

well someone had to say it Wink

so you are not respacing bad rims to clear the strut tube?
you want to space the rim 25mm further out from where it originally sat, ie increase track by 50mm total?

well, it will change scrub radius.
it will affect massively the bending moment on the axle which is bad.
it will massively load the studs, since there is now a much bigger bending moment, and it is a cyclic load which is even worse...

the hubcentric thing is so that you are not using the wheelstuds to take the load..
for MOST cars, it is the protruding ledge on the hub and the coresponding rim hole, that takes the actual weight of the car. the studs just hold the wheel on.

if you take this away, and the wheelstuds are actually taking the weight, you are asking to die Wink

imHo, you would be better off either a), new rims with correct offset (although if you are spacing them out, you still have excessive loading on the stub axles and bearings)
b) get a new hub made up. this will not stop the problem of excessive bearign and stub axle loading.

the problem is that if the original moment arm was sayyy... 50mm, and you stick an extra 25mm on, you ar enow loading the stub axle 50% more... which is a bad thing (tm)

combined with the scrub radius alteration, if it is extra track you are after, to lengthen lower arms, and move strut tops out 25mm each..... and also lengthen the steering tie rods.

what exactly is it you are trying to achieve?
why the mystery Wink

Cya, Stewart

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