The wife wants it.

[Jon325i]

The look of the steel wheels is definately cool, but personally I would've opted for another way to resolve the caliper clearance issue. Grinding/cutting down brake caliper parts wouldn't give me a lot of confidence should I need to suddenly brake aggressively.....such as avoiding a collision. :fingers crossed:

Jon

[NC325iC]

you mean to tell me that just to fit a set of wheels that are of incorrect offset you intentionally weekend a key part of the braking system? you say this part doesnt do anything but hold the pad, if i recall correctly this portion of the caliper assembly has the caliper bolted to it on sliding bushings, correct? and a popular modification on all BMWs using this design is to replace these bushings which are rubber with brass due to the force of braking twisting the caliper enough to cause uneven pad wear. this means that there is a force large enough to twist the caliper enough to deform these stiff rubber bushings. This same force is being put through to this bracket. you are telling me that you cut off about 33% of this bracket ON YOUR WIFES CAR?

are you trying to kill your wife?


edit: seriously?

edit2:lol i said weekend instead of weakened

[JGood]

you mean to tell me that just to fit a set of wheels that are of incorrect offset you intentionally weekend a key part of the braking system? you say this part doesnt do anything but hold the pad, if i recall correctly this portion of the caliper assembly has the caliper bolted to it on sliding bushings, correct? and a popular modification on all BMWs using this design is to replace these bushings which are rubber with brass due to the force of braking twisting the caliper enough to cause uneven pad wear. this means that there is a force large enough to twist the caliper enough to deform these stiff rubber bushings. This same force is being put through to this bracket. you are telling me that you cut off about 33% of this bracket ON YOUR WIFES CAR?

are you trying to kill your wife?


edit: seriously?

Seriously.

[Ray Smoodiver]

Seriously?

[Mot]

Ohne scheiß ?

aka seriously? I thought it was bad when I forgot to locktite the caliper bolts for about a day...

[submwar]

serious? id reconsider function> form x eleventy

RUT ROH

[Schniddy]

owned

[Nicademus]

I love the car. looks good

[So Live]

What if you got a wheel with more back space and ran a big fatty spacer in the front?

[golde30]

probably could have just run like a 5-10mm spacer and been safe. really, i wouldnt run the caliper that way...

[e30this]

The only way to run a spacer is if the spacer is flat and specificly made for 4x100 and no other holes in it.
I have tried 5 and 8 mm spacers and I would get nothing but wheel wobble because of them not being flat. With the 5mm and 8mm spacers I still had to grind the caliper and bracket anyways. There is no way you can run these wheels and have it look correct with out hacking up your fenders or running some flares.
The ET of this style wheels doesnt have anything to do with why it hits the caliper and bracket. Its the design of the wheel thats causing all the problems because most of it is flat on the back.
If I thought that it wasnt safe doing it this way then I would have never done it.
To be honest I still dont see the issue with it being this way.
I have been driving the car like this for about a month or so now and I didnt feel anything different in the brake pedal ir feel anything that didnt feel like it did before.
If something wrong happens then yes I will be OWND as most of you say.
But Im 100% sure it will be just fine.

[DragonOrta]

Nice sig Mike. :up: