Originally Posted by houtex

Just for the record: Correctly applied wheel spacers and wheel studs will NOT hurt the car. At all. People snap off axles because overpowering the axle's ability to contain the power being asked of them. If you're referring to snapping off the wheel studs, yes, that happens, but it is because the spacers were not accompanied by longer wheel studs, or there was too much power being asked of them. There is a possiblity that the spacers were not hubcentric, and that caused shifting of the wheel upon the face of the hub, and that would also cause the studs to shear off as you launched the car. If you get the *correct* spacers for the application, and the appropriate wheel studs to accomodate, then none of the breakage envisioned or seen happens, except in an overpowering situation, which was going to happen anyway. And now I'm off the soapbox.

Originally Posted by houtex

Just for the record: Correctly applied wheel spacers and wheel studs will NOT hurt the car. At all. People snap off axles because overpowering the axle's ability to contain the power being asked of them. If you're referring to snapping off the wheel studs, yes, that happens, but it is because the spacers were not accompanied by longer wheel studs, or there was too much power being asked of them. There is a possiblity that the spacers were not hubcentric, and that caused shifting of the wheel upon the face of the hub, and that would also cause the studs to shear off as you launched the car. If you get the *correct* spacers for the application, and the appropriate wheel studs to accomodate, then none of the breakage envisioned or seen happens, except in an overpowering situation, which was going to happen anyway. And now I'm off the soapbox.

Originally Posted by seangtcs

Ahh that's very interesting. I'm not sure if the studs were the correct length or not. That's something I'll have to research. But overpowering is a risk and eventually catastrophe will come about. But this being the first time I've heard anything spacers working you can imagine and understand my cynicism. So forgive my skepticism. But I still stand by the notion go for wider wheels instead of spacers. But that's just me I don't take shortcuts with my car I do it right or not at all