[Shotimes] RE: wheel offset and spacing?

[Ron Porter]

Moving the wheels out farther is decreasing the both the backspacing and the
offset.



Now what they need to do is what you describe by having them leave more
material on the hub mounting surface. This will effectively space the spokes
away from the caliper. It sounds like they need to leave material on the hub
surface. BTW you said 1/4mm.did you mean <? If it were a 1/4mm, you could
grid that little ff the caliper.



Of course, you could also do this with a spacer.



Either of these methods effectively lower the offset, as they place the hub
mounting surface closer to the centerline of the rim.



Centerline originally told the other guy with the AT that the 1200# wheels
would work. Then they cracked. The Dominator wheels were downrated to
1,100#s the last I looked. The GAVW for the front end of an MTX SHO is
something like 2,500-2,600 #s, IIRC. Its your money



Ron Porter



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From: bruce malachuk [mailto:bmalach1@nycap.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12:08 AM
To: 'Sholist'; TechSHO@topica.com
Subject: wheel offset and spacing?



I am having centerline build me a set of wheels. Contrary to everyone's .02
about how they are not strong enough, I've seen a set survive a whole summer
on MA roads on 225/45/17 tires so I'm pretty confident that for my daily
driving around rims they will be fine. Centerline seems to think so to, and
explained to me that thier load ratings are a good deal under what they
really should be at. That said, can't beat the price at $159 a rim delivered
for something that is 15lbs per wheel.



So I test fit one up to my car with my SHOstopper Jr. wilwood brake kit. And
just like my ADR's the caliper will hit on the Centerlines as they have
about a 1/4mm clearance. SO since centerline is building my wheels special
for me, I was wondering what I should ask them about spacing the wheels out
a little further, but not machining off so much material where the wheels
meets the hub. What would that be called? I have measured front and back
fender clearance with my ADR rims and 5mm spacer and I have plenty of room,
So I was thinking about having centerline add 3-4 mm on the wheels to allow
me to eliminate spacers on the fronts.



Would this be backspacing?



Bruce J Malachuk

*	94 Opal Frost MTX
*	93 Emerald Green MTX - SOLD but not far away
*	95 Silver Frost ATX SE - SLO - Gonna be the winter beater again
*	94 White ATX LX - SLO - $100 investment car
*	96 TR - Cam Failed parts car :-(
*	97 ES - Cam Failed but will be revived shortly - 9/12/05



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