E.Honda

I just had a few questions concerning wheel spacers. Im going to be running some 15x7 cragar soft 8s on my RD1 CRV. I know that they wont clear the caliper, but with a 1/4 spacer it will be fine.

My question is, my friend works at a machine shop, if he was to make me a 1/4 spacer, almost like a pancake. Will the stock studs be long enough to get the lugnut on safely? Or will I need to run extended lugs?

Thank you for your time,
E.Honda

Fabrik8

Make sure you get a hub centering ring machined on the spacer, instead of just a flat spacer. You could use a 1/4" spacer with the stock studs but it wouldn't be a good idea because you're really running out of safety margin at that point. So get some longer studs.

E.Honda

With longer studs will I have to get open ended lugs? Or do they make deep closed lugs?

Daft Punk

something you gotta figure out bro.

HEISENBERG

I would go open end just to be sure. I don't think closed ones are deep enough.

tucker5129

OP, ur gay. just pick up a set of blox or something. they would look sick on the crv with some extended studs




































and turn on ur rep

Daft Punk

^^wtf, GTFO troll.

tucker5129

i know him personaly. relax

Daft Punk

and you wonder why you got red boxes

Fabrik8

Think about it for a second. If you have a 1/4" spacer, and you get studs which are 1/4" longer than stock (for example), you can use closed-end lugs because you have no net change in length. If the studs are longer than stock by at least the spacer thickness, you'll probably need open-end lugs.

Also make sure that the lug seat angle on the wheels matches the seat angle on the lug nuts. If they're different, you'll have to get new lug nuts.