88blanca

I've heard a little about spacers for z31's wheels. I saw a pic with one inch spacers though I'm not sure who's car it was, someone on here. Just wondering how much they are and if anyone has any pics.

johnZboy

There is a big difference between a wheel spacer and a wheel adapter. A spacer just slides over your hub studs, and does what the name implies. It adds space to the offset. The studs, naturally, will have to be replaced with longer ones. A 1" spacer would require a stud that was 1" longer so there would be enough threads exposed to screw the lug nut securely down to the wheel.

A spacer is cheaper than an adapter, but, then you have to add in the cost of all new studs and the time required to R&R them. Plus, spacers sometimes don't center up just right and can give you a case of the wheel wobbles.

An adapter, on the otherhand, bolts to the hub just like a wheel, using the existing studs and lug nuts. You can spec them out to be hub centric, wheel centric, or hub and wheel centric which assures no wobbles. In addition the the adapters, a set of lug nuts are needed to bolt the wheel to the adapter studs.

Here's a good vendor for either adapters or spacers.

This is how an adapter will look. It's bolted to the old studs, and has it's own new studs ready to accept a wheel...


Have fun and Happy Motoring...

88blanca

Hey, thanks man.