Ashy
13-04-2009, 20:24
Hi all, I didn't want to start a number of seperate threads so thought I'd combine all my questions into one thread! Please bear with me its fairly long winded but need your opinions.
Right, bought a nice set of wheels off e-bay, it was a bit of an impulse buy but I liked them and thought what the heck. The advert was crap and the seller wasn't much help so I just bought them anyway as they were a good price.
So heres a photo of the rims on the car, current pic is the turbines, and following pic is the new wheels.
http://www.rtoc.org/boards/picture.php?albumid=407&pictureid=5891
http://www.rtoc.org/boards/picture.php?albumid=407&pictureid=5890
Anyway the situation is that the new wheels are a different offset to the turbines.
Turbines are 6.1/2 J 15 4CH36
Storms are 6Jx15 CH4-43
So the storm rims are only 6" wide compared to the turbines 6.1/2 and even closer to the hub. So the question is this, if I want to run the storm wheels would it be safe to make up a set of spacer plates? I was thinking of making something similar to the design I've sketched up below. This would allow me to run nuts insted of studs and run these rims with minimal fuss. I like these rims and with them being genuine reno rims they have the reno badge centre caps and look like a genuine upgrade.
http://www.rtoc.org/boards/picture.php?albumid=407&pictureid=5893
http://www.rtoc.org/boards/picture.php?albumid=407&pictureid=5892
As you can see they would basically bolt up against the face of the disc with captive studs to bolt the wheel in place.
The things I would need to confirm would be
1) would spacing these out by 12mm put too much strain on the hubs / wheel bearings?
2) Are the bolt thread sizes M12 x 1.5?
3) can you get reno fitment nuts (with the dished back face)?
4) is there an easier way of doing this?
Or would it be easier to flog these rims on cliosport.net and buy something else?
Cheers for your help
Ashy.
Right, bought a nice set of wheels off e-bay, it was a bit of an impulse buy but I liked them and thought what the heck. The advert was crap and the seller wasn't much help so I just bought them anyway as they were a good price.
So heres a photo of the rims on the car, current pic is the turbines, and following pic is the new wheels.
http://www.rtoc.org/boards/picture.php?albumid=407&pictureid=5891
http://www.rtoc.org/boards/picture.php?albumid=407&pictureid=5890
Anyway the situation is that the new wheels are a different offset to the turbines.
Turbines are 6.1/2 J 15 4CH36
Storms are 6Jx15 CH4-43
So the storm rims are only 6" wide compared to the turbines 6.1/2 and even closer to the hub. So the question is this, if I want to run the storm wheels would it be safe to make up a set of spacer plates? I was thinking of making something similar to the design I've sketched up below. This would allow me to run nuts insted of studs and run these rims with minimal fuss. I like these rims and with them being genuine reno rims they have the reno badge centre caps and look like a genuine upgrade.
http://www.rtoc.org/boards/picture.php?albumid=407&pictureid=5893
http://www.rtoc.org/boards/picture.php?albumid=407&pictureid=5892
As you can see they would basically bolt up against the face of the disc with captive studs to bolt the wheel in place.
The things I would need to confirm would be
1) would spacing these out by 12mm put too much strain on the hubs / wheel bearings?
2) Are the bolt thread sizes M12 x 1.5?
3) can you get reno fitment nuts (with the dished back face)?
4) is there an easier way of doing this?
Or would it be easier to flog these rims on cliosport.net and buy something else?
Cheers for your help
Ashy.