acadian

Rene, you could do it trust me. You can change a spare, right? Just jack the car up one wheel at a time. Once you have the wheel off, attach the spacer where the wheel was and use the supplied lug nuts. They are the same size as the stock ones... you just use the stock tire iron. Just make sure to get some red loc-tite and put a couple drops on the threads of the lug studs before attaching the spacers. You want the spacers to be very secure because they won't really be taken off. Then, just put your wheel back on just like you normally would. The wheel attaches to the new lug studs of the spacer. Piece of cake. But, I'm sure a tire shop would install them for just a few bucks. Better yet, order them yourself and get a guy friend of yours to do it for free if you don't feel comfortable.

Falchion

This might help you use a wheel that has a zero offset right? That would be great!

harrier

derynf

Will the ones for 50resto work on my wheels?

05WindveilGT

Don't the bullitts and the upgraded wheels have the same lug patterns??

Matt

derynf

I'm having trouble putting on my spacers.

I took of my wheels.
Bolted on the spacers with the provided lug nuts

When I go to put on the wheels, there is enough (or any) threads to put on the wheels.

I'll take pictures in the morning. Anything odvious I'm doing wrong?

acadian

The only thing I can think of is your wheels may not have recessed holes on the mounting side of the wheel between the lug nuts. It needs to have these indentions for the lug bolts/nuts from the spacers to fit into (see pic below). But my stock bullitts had them... I don't see why the upgrade wheels wouldn't. Check the backside of your wheel first and make sure you have them. If you do, then I don't know what it could be.

derynf

Ok, It looks like the upgraded wheels strike again (couldn't get the pony caps either):


Anyone want to buy these.

I paid $99.95 plus 9:50 shipping.

I sell them to you for $99.95 and throw in the shipping (own my own shipping company)

acadian

You will definitely get somebody to buy them. How thick are the spacers... 1"? And how many are you selling... 2 or 4?

acadian

I'll try and help you get a few buyers by posting a before pic of a Mustang without spacers followed by an after of mine when I had 1" spacers on all 4 tires. It's a pretty big change.

Here is one with no spacers...

acadian

And here is mine with spacers...

davids2toys

acadian

You can also see how the wheel well gap appears to be smaller with the spacers on.

And here is a rear pic of my car before the spacers were installed...

acadian

And finally, one from the rear after installing the spacers...

acadian

David, getting wider tires will help a little, but the largest you can really put on the stock wheels is 255 tires. That's only 3/4" of an inch wider than the stock 235's. So, the wheels will only stick out 3/8" more on each side. You will not even be able to see the difference. You'll be able to see the 3/4" if you look at the width of the tire, but not by looking at how far the wheels stick out. $200 to bring the wheels out an entire inch is not bad at all when you consider that buying 9" wide wheels to replace the 8" stock wheels would cost you 4 times that. I got the spacers and will also get 255's in the future to get the most out of the stock wheels.

Spacers also offer a couple other advantages besides looks, like 2" more between your wheels which helps with handling. ANd they also give you an extra inch of space between the wheels and the rotors/calipers which helps a lot in cleaning them... you can actually get a brush in there to scrub the calipers.

derynf

I only bought two, for the back end.

They are 1" spacers.

derynf

Just for clarity these are not used. They were taken out of the box, put on the wheels. And then taken off and put back in the box.

The lugs might be slightly scuffed from the lug wrench but you wheels will cover this.

I am waving the shipping charge and only selling them for $99.95 for two 1" spacers.

If no one wants them I do have an RMA number to send them back.

acadian

Just 2 is even better. I originally bought 4, but sold a pair to a member of TMS. Having them only on the back gives the car a nice angled stance, as well as making the rear wheels appear to be wider than the front wheels.

Here's a pic of my car with just spacers on the rear wheels...

davids2toys

Yes, I realized this about the tire size, thats why I am thinking about the spacers now, and then upgrade to 17x9 chrome bullitts from Ford when the tires wear out in about 2 yrs. Or spacers for now and when they wear out, keep the wheels and go with the 255's and the spacers, if I do this, i think I will paint the center sections of the Bullitts black. Do you think this could be done carefully with a spray can, and would it hold up???

acadian

I wouldn't try the spray can for wheels. They get chipped up very easily. And if you paint them yourself and don't clear it and bake it, any little rock is going to chip the paint. And then, the chip is just going to continue o get bigger and bigger. Eventually, it'll probably start to crack/flake anyway with the heat that the wheels get. I though about doing my bullitts black (except for the crome outer lip) but if I did, I'd have them powdercoated. That will hold up to anything.