Rear hub spacer question (attn. atobe)

[HomeGrown]

Atobe, I figured you'd be one of the most qualified to post an opinion on this idea since I know you're familiar with this area of the car, but anyone with knowledge of this area is encouraged to post. I'm going to be getting new tires soon, and want to stick with the same size (225/50/16's). Problem is, when these wheels/tires were on my car, I needed about 5mm spacers between the back of the wheel & the mounting face of the hub because the tire was rubbing the strut. This posed 2 major issues: it only left me with about 4 threads of engagement on the rear wheels, and it also left minimal hub-centric spacer engagement as well. Since you've had this assembly apart on your car, is there enough hub engagement on the centering boss to allow for a 5mm to 6mm spacer behind the hub assembly? I'd like to do a rear disc conversion, and this would be an ideal time to get it spaced out so I can properly use these wheels/tires.

[atobe]

wouldn't rub if you were using the right tires of 205/50/16.. but anyways... you could get extended lugs from ARP and run some wheel spacers..that way... this would be the cheapest way.. but i wouldn't recommend putting spacers where you pointed out. that's not a good area since it's suppose to keep the wheel bearing from the enviroment. you wouldn't want water/rocks mixxing in with the grease on the wheel bearing would you?

another way you can go is get 10mm adapters that's hub centric and run those.. let me find a link
ok i can't find them but smallest is 15mm... so your best bet is extended lugs from ARP.. i think it's like 25$ for 5.. still cheaper than adapters.

[HomeGrown]

Thanks atobe. Having not yet had that assembly apart, I didn't know the bearing was open, I (wrongly) figured it was a sealed bearing in the hub. Anyway, I may go with longer studs and make a couple of custom hub-centric spacers.

[fredk]

just get wheels with the right offset?

[atobe]

i don't think it's the wheel since he's running 20mm wider tires than he's suppose to.. to keep the tire diameter the same.

[HomeGrown]

The wheels in question are the Motegi's I picked up for cheap, and they have a 42+ offset. New wheels aren't an option, so I gotta make these work.