I got me some hub and wheel centric spacers, however the lip for centering the wheel onto the spacer doesn’t seem to be very large. Upon comparing with some other spacers online, turned out that they’re all the same size, so there’s nothing really wrong with mine. However, the Z32 rims have a small… groove if you will where it’s supposed to get picked up by the lip on the hub. It’s fine on the actual hub, because the lip on it is huge, and it protrudes enough to pick up the wheel, but not so much on the spacer. Now I was thinking, if I could fill this… groove with something, the lip of the spacer would pick up the wheel just fine, but what would do the trick?
Here is a picture I found online of another wheel, but it has the same thing 
I didn’t write the | <- Measure -> | on it, so it has nothing to do with what I’m talking about, it’s just to show you the groove.
nissan hubs have two steps normally, the hub itself will have a larger ring that will center the rotor and further smaller ring for centering the rim…
the rim might have a step to accomodate two different size hubs, or they might cast the wheel with a certain opening and then machine it for other applications
consider the mk3 supra has a small bore like 55mm or something, the nissans are 60-ish, same bolt pattern but the rims won’t fit, likewise going the other way mustangs have a larger opening
That’s nice and all, but how do I fix it? I’ll take pics of what the actual one looks like when I get home, but I think it is what you’re talking about.
thats going to be a problem indeed, did you not see the “groove” beforehand?
but hmm what could you do… … make a bushing that fits nicely into the rim… not easy
because the rim is cast you have little options… lets think about this
I never really thought about it dude, it didn’t catch my eye when I first saw it, and I hadn’t really thought about it until I actually received the spacers and tried test fitting them. But there’s gotta be more people out there running some kind of OEM rim on a 25mm spacer, so there’s bound to be a solution.
I have 25mm spacers on OEM nissan wheels, but they are spec-v wheels,. no problems there
so what you’re asking is how to get a hubcentric ring to hold the rim when it sticks out that far, or that the spacers themselves have hubcentric humps on them that just don’t match the wheel?
either way you’re looking at getting something lathed to fit, and fit to tolerance or it’ll be useless, perhaps take your rims to a machine shop and have some cut on site and test fit right there
that chamfer is where the thremoplastic or alloy hubcentric spacer fits
$18 at performance improvments
I love you Ian!
wanna explain this a little more? so at performance improvements, they sell some other type of spacer that fills the gap inbetween your spacer and the chamfer :?
… you could Braiz (sp) (a type of weld) that chamfer in and machine it smooth LOL dont listen to me… it might work but i dont recommend it
… new spacers ? and sell those you just bought
You’ll be fine just running them lugcentric… I had the same deal with a set of wheels I bought. I needed some other machining done on them and while they were in there, I had them machined for the plastic rings. They worked perfectly, then I removed them and just ran on the lugs and it was exactly the same… even with a huge gap between the hub dia. and the rim inside dia.
Wheels Direct sells those plastic rings for pretty cheap (fractional compared to pi) if you know the right guy. PM me for info on that.