Motorsport Technology wheel spacers
 

Just got these installed. Very high quality craftsmanship, fully hubcentric, everything went on better than factory. 25mm, got them from motorsport-tech.com in San Bernardino, CA. Great communication and fast delivery.
Before:


The spacers (with hubcentric rings)


After


From behind


Highly recommend this to push the rear wheels out far enough to match the front. Technically 20mm would be perfect, but I wanted them out a little more.

nice!

Looks good!!

basically the same as what i have. looks good

Very nice!

if you use those... and have alot of people in the back i notice my back wheels start tucking in... would that cause rubbing problems with anything>

That looks good man but remember that wheel spacers add stress to the studs and will wear them out.

GAH! the hub bears the weight of the car, not the studs.

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Added to Aleromod Upgrades.

That looks sweet nice job and good looking stance.

( burns voice) excellent!

Looks nice. I like that style of wheel. I just have a question though:

If the tire is sticking out a little more, do rocks or pebbles fly off the tire and run a higher risk of hitting the sides of your car, thus scratching the paint? I have seen that the Nissan 350Z has kind of like little mudflaps. I think Kwhauck also has some in his car. I am guessing this is to prevent that issue?

how much of a difference does the wheel centric make for the ride? I am interested in getting the spacers but I plan on getting rims eventually.

Thanks for all the comments! As for the rubbing/ stone flinging questions, it does rub when I hit a large bump or turn on a bumpy corner. I think this has more to do with my worn out suspension because it only rubs on the driver side. Haven't loaded it up with fatties just yet, but I think it would rub. It does have the possibility of catching stones because they do stick outside the wheelwell, but the problem is bugs on the highway catching the lip and being spun into gooey strings. You can get stock mudflaps for aleros, so that would probably be a solution. Not my style though, I never drive on gravel or loose stone roads.

Like the voice in Mortal Kombat?

looks good.

looks good and BTW,nice car!

i've got the same thing from http://www.skulte.com/ but the place you got them is less expensive.

looks like skulte is not doing custom spacers anymore.

When you add spacers, you are moving the wheel out further onto the stud therefore adding stress to them. You're not bolting wheels onto the hub, you're bolting them onto the studs, which in turn are held by the hub, not the other way around.

Edit, you're not riding on the hub, you're riding on the tires. What do you really think is bearing the weight of the car?

off topic question, but what are the pieces attached below the front of your car?

If your talking about the plastic piece attached to the bumper I think it's called an air dam.

umm no. the hub bears the weight of the car and studs merely hold the wheel on. that's why he needed...dadadadada HUB CENTRIC RINGS.

:bs: Look it up. The studs hold the majority of the vehicle's weight!

looks good

Yeah the hub supports the weight of the car, but the lugs keep it tight and also receive some of the force . This isn't always the case, some cars are lugcentric meaning the lugs totally support the weight. The hubcentric rings are only for my aftermarket rims, the stock wheels would bolt up without the need for the rings.

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Mrmike, what is the the offset and width on the wheels?

If that's what you want to believe then go ahead, but trust me, do you really think the studs are there to simply 'press' the wheel onto the car? Now I know why there's more maintenance talk than anything else here!

Lugnuts are for attaching wheels to the vehicle (preventing them from falling off outwardly, not supporting the weight of each corner vertically). The large "hub" in the center of the assembly is what the wheel's centerbore slides over. Notice that the wheel's center and the hub are, stock, tightly against each other, allowing the force exerted on the wheel to be transferred to the hub assembly via the centerbore. This is the ideal method. Using aftermarket wheels sometimes yields wider centerbores than stock, requiring the use of hubcentric rings to tightly fasten the wheel to the center hub so the weight is distributed to the hub via the wheel centerbore, allowing for zero vibration risk and maximum strength.

Our hub/wheel assemblies are designed from the factory to be hub-centric. Although other manufacturers may use lug-centric designs, ours is hub.

keep smoking that california chronic.

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there websites not working for me :( how much??

Looked like $220ish when I went through their menus.

not horrible, how would it look with stockers?

They are 18x8 with a +35mm offset. In order to get the same offset without using the wheel spacers, I would have had to find a wheel with +10 offset.
It would come to $145 for the two (in America. Canada gets raped on the exchange rate, shipping and border fees), select wheel adapters -> one piece -> hubcentric

not a fan.......staggered looks like that are for RWD cars....

They aren't staggered they are the same wheels front and back.

chronic? ewwww hahaha

there is a shop in lafayette that has them for $25 eachfor a 2 inch spacer

If you read what I wrote I said the staggered look, meaning your rear wheels are set out farther than your front wheels, you are trying to make it look like a RWD car, which is stupid IMO....unless you are doing an OSV replica, like oldsman, and even then I think GM made a bad decision.....