Red-2009-GTI
Ready to race!
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ
I recently installed the Brembo brake kit on the front of my Mk5. Brakes are NICE and went on straightforward, no problems.
I had 18x8" Miro LM Replica wheels and they have a modest dish that I like the looks of but these wheels do not clear the new calipers. I had to put my 17" Enkie GTC-01 wheels back on as they clear by a good margin.
I used some flat washers to space the Miros out just to determine what thickness spacer I would need and it looks like 6mm is close and 8mm would be a safe clearance. I did not drive the car with the washers in place, just spun the wheel and saw there was good clearance.
So I looked around online at wheel spacers and 8mm is readily available. I have not been able to actually look at these but it seem like these thinner ones do not have the part that projects out into the wheel (the hub-centric deal), and only the thicker spacers have this feature. I was reading about the H&R Spacers at $60 a pair plus shipping.
Do spacers (8mm Spacers specifically) need to have this pushed out feature? Or should they have this feature? If they can be flat like a big washer with five holes for the wheel bolts I could fab these up myself as I have a mill and a rotary table, and I would build 4 of them (space out the rear wheels as well), and pocket the $135 (but invest probably 4 hours).
I had 18x8" Miro LM Replica wheels and they have a modest dish that I like the looks of but these wheels do not clear the new calipers. I had to put my 17" Enkie GTC-01 wheels back on as they clear by a good margin.
I used some flat washers to space the Miros out just to determine what thickness spacer I would need and it looks like 6mm is close and 8mm would be a safe clearance. I did not drive the car with the washers in place, just spun the wheel and saw there was good clearance.
So I looked around online at wheel spacers and 8mm is readily available. I have not been able to actually look at these but it seem like these thinner ones do not have the part that projects out into the wheel (the hub-centric deal), and only the thicker spacers have this feature. I was reading about the H&R Spacers at $60 a pair plus shipping.
Do spacers (8mm Spacers specifically) need to have this pushed out feature? Or should they have this feature? If they can be flat like a big washer with five holes for the wheel bolts I could fab these up myself as I have a mill and a rotary table, and I would build 4 of them (space out the rear wheels as well), and pocket the $135 (but invest probably 4 hours).
