Yes. Cheaper than the collateral damage potential of shearing off wheel
studs. Hubcentric spacers reduce the shearing load to two directions; drive
and braking. Spacers that use the studs to position the wheel al well
wobble around and apply forces in all directions which accelerates getting
fatique fractures.
For the street, cheap spacers are ok. For what we do, if you autocross the
car week in and week out you will eventually fatigue and break a stud much
sooner without hubcentric spacers than with them. I don't have familiarity
with this particular outfit. You may get your local machine shop to make
some up for a lower price.
With hubcentric spacers and 1/2" studs I can go a whole season and only
sheer a couple of studs. I replace them all in the off season. With an
MR2, your mileage may vary.
Rick Brown
BP Corvette
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of James Creasy
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 2:12 PM
To: Sterling McLane; ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Wheel Spacers
not cheap though! is the hub-centric design a big plus?
-James Creasy
Slip Angle Racing www.klio.net/cobra
BAPOC www.klio.net/probe
----- Original Message -----
From: Sterling McLane <semclane@earthlink.net>
To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 7:33 PM
Subject: Wheel Spacers
> Just passing along a little information that may be of use to my fellow
> autocrossers:
>
> Last weekend, due to several factors including an engine rebuild that is
> back in the shop one more time for smoking, I spent quality time with my
> son Rod, along with Katie and Ralph Elder as Katie drove Rod and Kevin
> McCormick's old MR2 at Sears Point. A slight problem was encountered that
> while solved by using my autocross wheels and tires (BTW Khumo's get real
> sticky after being warmed by a few laps on a track), led to a web search
> for longer wheel lugs this week. The result was a site that some of you
> may be aware of already, but for others, it might be worth looking at and
> bookmarking for later reference....
>
> http://www.nascarplace.com/hrspacers/
>
> And in spite of the name, it doesn't appear to be at all associated with
> NASCAR stockers.
>
> WHat I found to be cool lwas that not only can we get the longer lugs we
> were looking for, but even for a lowly Mk1 MR2 we can get real hub-centric
> H&R spacers instead of having to resort to generic spacers.
>
> ***************************
> * Sterling McLane *
> * semclane@earthlink.net *
> ***************************
>
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