'86 325e with GC Coilovers:
15x7.5 et 25 57.1 CB w 225/50r15 tires
Fenders heavily rolled all the way around
Not willing to stretch tires anymore! 225s it is.
Here is what happened when I mounted my wheeels and tires.
Obviously I needed spacers, I just wasn't sure what size I should get.
Luckily I had a set of non-hubcentric 10 mm spacers sitting in the garage. Now I get that oh-so-familiar wobble. I loathe this. Oh, and my front track is now 20mm wider than my rear track. Pretty flush up front, I guess, but it would be nice to not be AS flush.
Anyone who has tried to buy 10mm or smaller hubcentric spacers knows my pain.
~13mm of hub doesn't leave very much room for a wheel to mount to when you put that 10mm spacer on there.
On another front, the chamfer on the mount side of the wheel is pretty deep, so I would need a pretty deep hubcentric section.
So, here are some options:
1. Buy new hubs, have 4-5mm cut off the hub. Then have some custom hubcentric spacers made.
2. Move the spring perch up, get a shorter spring. (do I keep the same rates? will my ride be harsher than it is now?)
3. Machine the wheels to be 64mm centerbore (like my old Borbets), then I can have whatever custom hubcentric spacers I want.
4. Get rings to fill in that chamfer on the wheel to "center" the wheel on the hub. (hardly any support)
5. Get whatever width spacer I want, but get it "keyed" to fit in those holes in between the bolt holes on the mount side.
Z. Live with non-hubcentric wobble. (Did I mention I loathe this?)
Just writing this out, I guess option 2 is the most viable, it's just that I don't know how much higher I can safely go with the perch on the strut tube. As it is, I would like to go a touch lower with the car, so if I get shorter springs, that would accomplish some of the drop assuming same rates. (right?) But I like the "ride" now, it's stiff but not too punishing.
15x7.5 et 25 57.1 CB w 225/50r15 tires
Fenders heavily rolled all the way around
Not willing to stretch tires anymore! 225s it is.
Here is what happened when I mounted my wheeels and tires.
Obviously I needed spacers, I just wasn't sure what size I should get.
Luckily I had a set of non-hubcentric 10 mm spacers sitting in the garage. Now I get that oh-so-familiar wobble. I loathe this. Oh, and my front track is now 20mm wider than my rear track. Pretty flush up front, I guess, but it would be nice to not be AS flush.
Anyone who has tried to buy 10mm or smaller hubcentric spacers knows my pain.
~13mm of hub doesn't leave very much room for a wheel to mount to when you put that 10mm spacer on there.
On another front, the chamfer on the mount side of the wheel is pretty deep, so I would need a pretty deep hubcentric section.
So, here are some options:
1. Buy new hubs, have 4-5mm cut off the hub. Then have some custom hubcentric spacers made.
2. Move the spring perch up, get a shorter spring. (do I keep the same rates? will my ride be harsher than it is now?)
3. Machine the wheels to be 64mm centerbore (like my old Borbets), then I can have whatever custom hubcentric spacers I want.
4. Get rings to fill in that chamfer on the wheel to "center" the wheel on the hub. (hardly any support)
5. Get whatever width spacer I want, but get it "keyed" to fit in those holes in between the bolt holes on the mount side.
Z. Live with non-hubcentric wobble. (Did I mention I loathe this?)
Just writing this out, I guess option 2 is the most viable, it's just that I don't know how much higher I can safely go with the perch on the strut tube. As it is, I would like to go a touch lower with the car, so if I get shorter springs, that would accomplish some of the drop assuming same rates. (right?) But I like the "ride" now, it's stiff but not too punishing.
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