Seeing as you want to set them out a full inch, I think your choices are either wheel spacers and longer wheel studs or the even popular wheel adapters. The adapters basically bolt on with another set of wheel stud portruding at the desired wheel spacing. You can opt for the same bolt pattern, or, as most people do, use them to run a wheel that isn't designed for your bolt pattern (i.e. run Ford wheels or perhaps a 5-lug wheel on a 4-lug bolt pattern. -Josh
Hmmm. I'm not sure if that is possible after some measurements. Maybe 1/2 " or so might be more feasible.
Wheel adaptors I say no no NO! Most of these are junk and you have to keep checking your rims to see if they are loose. consider using a different offset rim.
IMOO anything more than 1/4" and you cannot use spacers with the stock wheel studs. You'll have to get different studs put in or find wheels with the appropriate backspacing you're looking for.
Well. I bought some 5/16 spacers. That should be enough to make the clearances for the tire, and I hope there will be enough threads left that I will feel comfortable. My 88 jeep with the factory aluminum wheels has very little threads left to secure things, but, that's how they all are..
I have 13 1/2 turns now. What I have found after searching seems to indicate that 7 to 8 turns is necessary to be safe. This may be close. I'll post back after they arrive. I really don't expect much visual difference with only 5/16" but I'll post pics..
I got approx 7 full turns on all wheel studs in the front. Tires don't rub anymore. The rear studs are too short to even consider. Eventually I will put the 15x7s I have in the rear on the front, assuming they will fit, and buy some 15x8s for the rear.
Those make me VERY nervous about snapping lug nuts. When you accelerate, the friction of the drum to the wheel (on the hub) is what turns the tire. (The lug nuts do NOT spin the tire, but they pull the wheel against the drum- kinda like how a flywheel drives a clutch plate but instead of a clutch spring it is the lug nuts). Now that you are putting an intermediate object, you will have the drum which turns the spacer and the spacer turns the wheel. I'm too afraid that the friction will not be as intended, and the surfaces will slip and the lug nuts will break and the wheel will fall off. -Bob C.
I did that with a 67 mustang 289 at 7500 RPMs man that was ugly . The wheel left the car and took the RR quarter with it
It's not a front wheel drive car.. There are no spacers on the rear.. That being said, isn't the rear drum a spacer. It is between the hub and the wheel..
