I just got my SSC Springs this week and the car looks nice.

Now, I was thinking on spacers to make the car look wider... I made a search about them but couldn't find nothing that interests me. It goes from people who buy them cause of brembos to people who buy new wheels with spacer need.

I'd like to know if some people run them just for the appearance, what size do you have, did you change your studs and if I need any more information about them.

Where did you buy them with the price please!

If its possible, post me some picture of them on the car!

Thanks

 

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there must be someone who can light me on this....

 

You may or may not need longer lugs. It depends on the wheels and the width of the spacer. How thick are you talking? Post up some pics of what it looks like now.

 

 

Stock wheels you could prob get away with spacers without longer studs.

 

Do you know how big of thickness I can go?

 

Not more than 10mm I'd say. Anymore I'd get longer studs.

 

I wish someone that has already done it would help me, I guess I might just be one of the first to do this.

 

sounds like a good idea. i think i might try that with my ss/tc sometime, but ill wait and see how it goes with you. being the first at things is fun. hopefully ill be the first ss/tc with dual exhaust. lol. i have teh monies for that.

 

Spacers are used mostly on cars that are trying to obtain this "hellaflush" look. On hondas no more than 10mm on stock studs. I'm not sure on cobalts. Try it out.

 

I don't mind changing the studs, I will measure and see what I need, but I don't think it's less than 10mm. Looks more like 15. But Eibach do sell some spacers with another set of studs on the spacers, so you bolt the spacer on the hub and the wheel on the spacer, that's what I might just buy. Around 160$ a pair.

To be totaly sure, should I just go to a store that sells cheap spacers of 3mm and just put as much as I need and then just count the total mm used instead of measuring it with a tape or something?

 

If you want to do a mock up you could put some washers on between the brake disk and wheel. Don't drive around like that obviously but it would let you see if you have enough thread sticking out to get a few turns on the lug nut.

 

3mm is fine on factory studs. anything more there just isn't enough thread contact with the lugs to be safe. also. the stock offset is a +42, every mm the space is wide, subtract that from the offset. and that way you can compare it to other peoples wheels. so lets say you found someone with a 18x7 wheel with a +35 offset that you thought looked good, then get a 7mm spacer.

 

Aiight fine, this was my next project but now that P0010 is causing me trouble so I might wanna fix this before getting spacers.

 

old thread bump but 10mm spacers do not fit with stock tc wheels and studs, not even one thread available

 

good to know as imma be doing this come spring

 

Just get longer studs. They're really easy to swap on the 5 bolt Cobalts. 4 bolts are a little more difficult but I can do it in under 5 minutes now with as many as I've changed.

 

do you have to remove the hubs to change the studs or is there enough room to hammer them out and pull the new ones back in without taking the hub off?

 

5mm is the biggest I would go on the stock studs. I put a set on mine just to see, and I couldn't even tell. Needs at least 10mm in the front, probably 15mm in the rear. However, I wouldn't have driven on them, there were very few threads available. I have the equivalent of an LT, btw.

 

yea im gonna get some longer studs from zzp the arp studs there .39 of an inch bigger.. planning on running half inch spacers.. but can you change the studs without taking the hub off?

 

make sure the spacers are hubcentric or you will be busting the studs and watching your wheels keep on rolling while you come to a quick stop.

YouTube - RX7 wheels fall off

 

yes the spacers i will be getting will be hubcentric machine out of aircraft grade aluminum stock

and WHAT?! lol how the **** do all FOUR wheels fall off lol

 

haha imports wheels fall off all the time


awsome yea as long as your hub centrick and have as much of the lug nut threaded on with out bottoming on the stud you will be fine. there was actually a guy who was making custom spacers cnc'd and all ill see if i can find it

 

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/part...entric-237790/
there check this

 

yea i had already posted on there just waiting on an update from him