fao JP

caddy · Padawan Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Posts: 71 Location: Armagh

how wide are these spacers of yours ?

and whats the offset and clearance of the wheels your using .

cheers caddy..
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jp · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:00 pm Post subject:

HI Caddy not ignoring you just needed to get my arse over the barn to measure the spacer... anyway the spacer measures 58mm.

As for clearance on the wheels basically bugger all, inner edge of tyre is literally 1 mm from the spring plate and prob 5mm from inside edge of innner arch. I'm thinking I'll add a 3mm wheel spacer to push it a bit further away from the spring plate.

What you got planned ?
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richbaker78 · Teacher of Padawans Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 1298

sorry to butt in...but couple of other pointers:

you will need to tailer them to your exact application as they are realted to where you put your trailing arm pivots.

and the two bottom ones in the pic are a different size to the top one so the measurement above is not the same for all 3.

diameter is determined by the inset in the arm.

i have slightly thinner tyres on mine (standard boxster 205/55/ R170) and they give me about 5mm clearance to the spring plate. I would defo get the tyre as close to the spring plate as you can always space out like JP is rather than the other way.