[Shotimes] Widebody '94 SHO

[cmichaelo@optonline.net]

Offset is measured from the centerline, not from the outer face of the rim!

So if your offset is 42mm, you're 42mm from the centerline. Increasing rim width won't change the offset, you just get deeper dish rims.

Michael
94MTX,green,BOS+,Koni/Intrax,Baer,Corbeau
SHO items for sale: http://hometown.aol.com/cmichaelo/for_sale.html

----- Original Message -----
From: Zach Leahy <leahyz@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, November 10, 2005 2:04 pm
Subject: Re: RE: RE: [Shotimes] Widebody '94 SHO

> You are 42mm from the outer face of the rim, so adding rim width 
> changes the
> depth which moved the centerline if your offsett stays the same.
> Z
> 
> On 11/10/05, cmichaelo@optonline.net <cmichaelo@optonline.net> wrote:
> >
> > OK, help me understand something then. I'm starting to get myself
> > confused.
> >
> > I believe "ground zero" is +42mm offset, regardless of rim 
> width. Thus
> > getting wider rims shouldn't make a difference on the stress, as 
> long as
> the
> > offset is the same.
> >
> > On the other hand, I would think that any time you move the 
> wheels out (or
> > in for that matter) you change the stress on the bearing, cause 
> you are in
> > effect changing the relative pivot point when you insert spacer, 
> or when
> you
> > install wheels with a different offset.
> >
> > Michael
> > 94MTX,green,BOS+,Koni/Intrax,Baer,Corbeau
> > SHO items for sale: http://hometown.aol.com/cmichaelo/for_sale.html
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ron Porter <ronporter@prodigy.net>
> > Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2005 5:27 pm
> > Subject: RE: RE: [Shotimes] Widebody '94 SHO
> >
> > > No
> > >
> > > If he gets 2" wider wheels, and gets 1" less offset, he's back to
> > > groundzero.
> > >
> > > Ron Porter
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-
> > > admin@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of cmichaelo@optonline.net
> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 10:48 PM
> > > To: Bill Murray
> > > Cc: shotimes@autox.team.net
> > > Subject: Re: RE: [Shotimes] Widebody '94 SHO
> > >
> > > Whether he pushes the wheels out with say 2" spacers or he get
> > > wheels with
> > > 2" shorter offset will have the same effect on the spindles wrt
> > > stress.
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