let me know if you've run into any problems..........

 

dont think its gonna work. Not enough thread

 

i'm going to see if they'll work, and if i get a good amount of clearance on my BBK.....then i'm going to step down to 5mm H&R spacers w/o studs

but not having longer studs does have me a little nervous

 

i hope your wheel doesnt come off when your drivin...that would be garbage.

 

i'll be checking the lugs quite often

just remember 5 lugs have to fly off before the wheel does

 

i have 5mms. 1cm is one thick spacer. I wouldnt use those even with longer studs. You're going to ruin your wheel bearings.

 

i have either 7mm or 10mm on stock studs. im not sure which they are, i never measured.

 

10mm is 1 centimeter. its almost one inch. Thats a thick as heck spacer. Good luck to you lol.

I have a feeling if I did that i'd be saying bye bye to my rear wheels when i drove over a rut.

 

10mm is like 1/2 an inch, a centimeter is about half an inch, smokin the good stuff tonight Paredline?

 

10mm = 0.3936996 in /= almost 1 in

Most of the time spacers jump from 5mm to 15mm+ because at 10 mm you dont have enough spacer thickness to actually machine the hub centric part into it. At 5mm you can keep the stock lug nuts and still have room on the stock hub.

 

thats not even half an inch

 

10mm is about 3/8"
13mm is about 1/2"

i would have to remove mine and measure them to find out for sure.

 

i'm not that desperate Jsutter, no need to remove them its good you hear you are running spacers though......are they on the front or back?

I just picked up some H&R 5mm as well, so hopefully the 5mm will clear my wilwood kit that's going on. Then i'll put the 10mm on the rears to even out the car's stance

we will see.......

 

dont do it, i learned the hard way.....i was driving, i heard some noises come from the front tire and when i was in the middle of pulling over the bottom part of the rim fell out.....i just wouldnt risk it, luckily the whole rim didn't fall off, otherwise i would have needed a new rotor....= \. I ended up putting on longer studs....much more safe and gives me a lot more piece of mind.

 

^^did you have them on the front or rear??

and how tight did you torque them down

 

If you want 10 or 15mm spacers just buy the longer studs and replace them. Do the job correctly, it isn't very hard to change the studs. Your 1/2 way there after the wheel is off. Just remove the brake torque member with the caliper on it, slide the rotor off and hammer out the old studs and put the new ones in.

Pretty simple, really.....

 

if you put the spacers on it will shift the weight from the strong part of the stud to the weak on the outside where they could bend and break and in that case it would probably be all at once. I heard that at discount tire. I got a set of wheels with a dif. offset so they arent so far under the fender. It looks mean

 

i ran those 10mm on stock studs for 6months nothing happend no wheel falling off nothing driving around with 4 people in the car they held just fine

 

haha at 10mm being almost an inch... lol math.

Anyhow, I've used 7.5mm spacers with stock lugs. From what I've seen, 10mm would be pushing it. 7.5 is about the largest I'd want to go.

Of course you could avoid all this conjecture by just getting out a ruler and starting to measure stuff... that's what I'd suggest.

 

very true.....i may just go with longer studs

i was thinking i might be able to run 10mm in the rear and not the front.....mainly because there's not much movement in the rear as compared to the front

 

The longer studs are cheap compared to the cost of repairing your car if something happens. Then you won't be driving yourself crazy every time you hear a strange noise.

Steve

 

Where can i pick these longer studs up at and how long would i need?? 60mm?

 

mine are in the rear. i tried to measure them while installed and it seems they are about 7mm possibly 7.5mm.

 

Nismo studs are what I had on my other car. Nismo makes both 50mm and 60mm studs. You can probably get em from DAVEB the parts guy. I got mine from courtesy nissan back in the day if I remember correctly.

 

whats stock length?

 

42mm if my memory is correct.

 

As a Chem. Eng. I'de say 1in=2.54cm. Now if only I can get a calculation that tells me how to build a turbo.... :attention

 

Oh btw the Nismo studs are 52mm and 60mm is what I meant to say, not 50mm.