Can anyone advise me on what mods i need to make to my 3 door road car in order to run Grp A wheels. thanks in advance

 

Longer studs or sleeve nuts chap. Personaly i'd go for longer studs...which is what I did

Stu

 

Excellent thanks Stu, where did you get your long studs from?

 

Got mine from Geoff Fawlks (sp) wheels in Ibstock just becuase they were local. Any where that specialise's in wheels should stock them tbh. Try Speed Shack for mail order??

A pic of my studs:


And the wheels I fitted to them:


Stu

 

Those wheels you have there are class! mustve cost a small fortune!
Are the stud fairly easy to change?

 

Cheers dude

You'll need to remove the hub flanges to replace the studs...which means new bearings as well chap. Replacing the bearing didnt bother me as im doing a full resto anyhows.

 

Perfect wheels there Cossie604

 

you don't need to remove the flanges to replace the studs

if you did remove the flanges, you don't need to replace the wheel bearings

 

I found that the longer studs fouled on the hub carrier's when trying to fit them. The standard studs come out easy enuff due to being much shorter. Regarding not needing to replace the wheel bearings...ive never known any1 be able to remove a hub flange from its carrier with out pulling the most outer bearings inner race out with it? And its seems to make perfect sence to me to change the bearing regardless if you've already stripped the whole thing down anyhow.

 

fair point - but if it ain't broke.......wheel bearings are one of those things, IMO, that if they aren't causing any issues, they are best left alone

 

Yeah and what I was saying was that the short studs can be swapped over without the removal of the flange being required. But with the longer studs they foul on the hub carrier hence the removal of the flange being required to fit the long studs, and when you remove the flange they tend to pull out the most outer inner bearing race rendering the bearing useless imo. Also in the case of the 3dr the front hub flanges are getting rare now so its best to keep on top of things such as wheel bearings just to preserve the life of the flange.

 

so whats the disadvantage of using sleeved nuts ?

 

None that im aware of tbh....longer studs were in easier reach of me and I wasnt fussed regards stripping my carriers right down due to them going off to the powder coaters anyhows.


Post a question up in General for a contact for sleeved nuts m8, and their opinons on them as I cant comment due to never using them.

 

Those wheels are the nuts, have you got a pic of your car with the wheels fitted?

 

Cheers mate...not really got a proper pic as the car is still a work in progress...will these do tho??




Stu.

 

Hi Stu, cant go wrong with BBS

what offset are they? What size tyres are you running?

 

Cheers Vic! ET15....im running 215/40-17 on front..which are a little stretched but look ok....got the same on the rear but as you can see in the pics they are stretched over so much she could also pass as being something off the Volkswagen scene Will be fitting up some 235/40-17 before she hits the roads again.

Stu.