Wheel spacers

[jfmillr]

I used the 5 mm spacers on my Turbo Twists for almost a year. They looked great. I ultimatly sold the wheels and spacerts to someone else on this board, and went with wider rims with no spacers. and got the same effect if not a better one. I ended up getting 9" wide wheels in front and 10" wheels in back and this looks far better then the spacers did. Just be careful that yur tires dont rub the wheels wells. Some minor modifications might be required inside the wheel well if you do this and have the lowered suspension. i had to melt the plastic in two spots to prevent my tires from hitting when steering wheel is cranked in either direction.
Do yourself a favor, if you use wheel spacer , use the porsche ones. They come with the extended lug nuts and you want to be very careful to make sure you do use an extended lug nut with whatever spacers you choose. You can run into some real trouble if you try using your factory lugs with the spacers. Wouldnt want you wheel to break off under the added pressure at high speeds.

[FUHRIUS]

I bought the car like this last fall...stock wheel size 7.5/9" 53/50mm offsets) with TechArt spacers, 15mm front and 21mm rear.
I'm not going to get into this religious battle about stock setup being perfect vs. modded cars and effects of wheel bearings/ handling, etc.
I can say that I think the car looks great...it's a really noticeable difference in the appearance of the car. My car is also lowered approx 1 inch from stock s (so it's basically the same as if you'd ordered the 030 option (or whatever it is called). It also handles really nice...they all do. But I'd driven maybe 6 or 7 different used s's before I bought this one and I think the handling is improved with the drop / width. The anniv car came stock with 5mm spacers and the 987 is considerably wider, so I'm not sure that spacing out a 986 is all that bad...I suspect it will put extra stress on the wheel bearings.
I'm actually swithing out this setup next week for a set of kinesis k58's in the same color scheme (black centers, polished lip)...they're 8.5" front and 10 rear, with 996 offsets, so I'll end up using the 21mm spacers in the rear with no spacers in the front. Hope this helps.

[FUHRIUS]

from the back...and with the original rims on the car (turbo twists) so you can get a better sense of whay the spacers look like with stock rims.

[FUHRIUS]

the rear, the way the car looks now (with clear tail lights and single black 'S' badge.

[Adam]

We carry 1/4 inch spacers here at Mid-America that are hub-centric and the lugs are included. They only cost 60 bucks a pair so I think I will just get these instead spending double that or more for the "official" Porsche spacers which are probably very similar and do the exact same thing.

[Brucelee]

Hey Adam

We would love Mid America as a sponsor on this board. Can you help us out on that?

I think they would get a ton of sales by being here.

Thanks!

[Adam]

Yes, I definately agree bruce. I will bring it up to some people when I go back to work next week. I have already directed a few boxster customers to this board in the last few weeks since it is such a good source of info for the boxster owner. In fact, I was talking to a customer in Cali on Thursday I believe that he bought one of our trueflow intake systems. He was curious about desnorkling his 98 and I just told him to do a search on this board and he would have the answer. Anywho, I will let you know what they say.