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07-21-2004, 04:02 PM

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had some spacers made

Since H&R spacers are perpetually out of stock, I asked my friend's dad to make a pair for me (stupid high offset SSR's not clearing the 300ZX calipers!!). Anyway, I thought they came out great and thought I'd show them off. I bought a set of Nismo studs to go along with them. Overall, it was cheaper than 15mm H&Rs but my friend's dad gave me a discount since he used a piece of scrap aluminum to do the job (I didn't realize blocks of aluminum are so damn expensive!).

They are 1/2" thick, and I forget the rest of the dimensions.

P.S. The studs are just resting in the holes -- they weren't pressed in or anything crazy like that.

07-21-2004, 04:31 PM

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Nice! But someone is going to copy them in aluminum

Get those BBKs on brutha!

07-21-2004, 05:39 PM

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coulda just bought spacers for a mustang

07-21-2004, 05:50 PM

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coulda just bought spacers for a mustang

not sure how much you paid for the "scrap" aluminum, but the mustang ones might have been cheaper since they are more common.

Brian

07-21-2004, 06:37 PM

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Nice! But someone is going to copy them in aluminum

I'm confused, these are made out of aluminum.

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not sure how much you paid for the "scrap" aluminum, but the mustang ones might have been cheaper since they are more common.

Brian

Cheapest set of mustang spacers I could find that would fit my needs are the MMWS-4's: http://www.maximummotorsports.com/spacers.asp. After you figure in shipping costs, I paid roughly 1/2 of what those are selling for. And cheapo generic universal spacers don't count

07-21-2004, 07:31 PM

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And cheapo generic universal spacers don't count

Why not? they achieve the same purpose unless you are dealing with hubcentric wheels

07-21-2004, 09:17 PM

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Why not? they achieve the same purpose unless you are dealing with hubcentric wheels

Well, I've never seen cheapo spacers larger than 1/4". Also, I have some cheapo ones in the back, and while they are ok, when you get to large thicknesses I just feel like you should have more metal pressing the wheel to the rotor than what the generic ones offer (especially when you have a BBK in the front). The ones I had made have a larger diamtere than the cheapo ones. Plus, they look like crap and would only be marginally cheaper than what I had made. But hey, to each his own. The ones I bought for the rear were $10 each and I'd need 2 for each side for the front so that's basically what I paid for my nice ones.