Wheel adapter idea

[Digitalwave]

Hah, 42mm. You are going to need like ET60 rims to fit them on an E30, or else the rims are going to stick out of the fenders Mexican-style.

[Widebody325]

I have contacted all the guys I could find on ebay that manufacture adapters, because of my widebody conversion. All of them have said that you need a double adapter to go from 4x100 to 5x114.3. Since you need a double adapter, the minimum thickness of it is gonna have to be no less than 1.75inches. You will also have to pay more, which worked out to be like $340 plus an additional cost for hubcentric. What I am doing is going with some wheel studs, and spacing the front 1 inch and the rear 1.85 inches

you are going to do what? do you have pics or something? I would lke to do the same as you, not sure what you are ging to do but I will like to make fit 5 lu wheels in my e30

Yeah I will take some pics asap. I have the flares all done, I just have to do some finishing body work. I have side skirts being make with a sheet metal break which will make the car look 100 times better. I took the styling hints from a late 70's IMSA 320 race cars. The the front fenders come out and stick out about 2.5 inches past the door, so you can see the tire, and the rears have a big vent, the length of the door, and flare out then come back to the taillight. You have to see a pic in order to get what im sayin.

[darien28]

that guy (first post) is local to me, and my friend had him make some adapters for his supra. he does really nice work. if it's just spacer that you need, I can make them as well since I have access to a machine shop too. I'm gonna go make some thicker spacers for my wheels... the ones I have (10mm) are too small, and the lugnuts I have are already more than long enough. my rear lugnuts needed lugnut spacers to prevent the ends from hitting the brake backing and I'd imagine the fronts are similar...

I just gotta walk over ot the local metal supply store and pickup a few cylindrical blocks of aluminum and clamp it to the lathe at school... then drill out the 4x100 pattern. pretty simple. I can even use my old spacers as a guide.

BTW, do the holes for the lugbolts even have to be exact? I'd imagine that it wouldn't matter that much since most of the weight sits on the center hub thing...

[Digitalwave]

I have contacted all the guys I could find on ebay that manufacture adapters, because of my widebody conversion. All of them have said that you need a double adapter to go from 4x100 to 5x114.3. Since you need a double adapter, the minimum thickness of it is gonna have to be no less than 1.75inches. You will also have to pay more, which worked out to be like $340 plus an additional cost for hubcentric. What I am doing is going with some wheel studs, and spacing the front 1 inch and the rear 1.85 inches

you are going to do what? do you have pics or something? I would lke to do the same as you, not sure what you are ging to do but I will like to make fit 5 lu wheels in my e30

Yeah I will take some pics asap. I have the flares all done, I just have to do some finishing body work. I have side skirts being make with a sheet metal break which will make the car look 100 times better. I took the styling hints from a late 70's IMSA 320 race cars. The the front fenders come out and stick out about 2.5 inches past the door, so you can see the tire, and the rears have a big vent, the length of the door, and flare out then come back to the taillight. You have to see a pic in order to get what im sayin.

Sounds like the ALMS E46 M3's.