e34nication

What was the issue? Late offset wheels on an 86?

drift a 944

Its never too late for a thicker spacer!

My most recent favorite pic:

Jherriott

Long story short: Bought used wheels thinking best way to get what I want cheaper. Naive. Ordered spacers. Spacers delayed. Delayed again. Delayed again, backorder from Eibach Germany. Waited. Summer ending soon. Searched part Number on Amazon. Found kits! Ordered kits and got it them in a week! Cancelled other order. Didn't get money back for over a month. Rear spacers fit, but splines on push-through studs wrong, had to source new longer studs, with proper splines. Front spacers didn't fit over grease cap! UGH! Had to source new spacer and machine to fit while still retaining hub-centric format. Front studs had right splines, but the splines too short! Had to source longer studs. Found some but were too long. Had to cut and then re tap threads. Now front spacers not mating well with stock front cast iron spacer due to imperfections in casting. Had to machine stock cast spacer. Finally success...

But after all the work, visually I should have gone a few mm wider and pushed the envelope. Also noticed a vibration at 120 kph. Seems one of the front rims has a nice wobble.

Somewhere down the road I'll send them back to Fikse and get new proper offset barrels, and lose the spacers. Lesson learned the hard way. Although I really like the discontinued "Antique Jewelled" finish on the faces as it is almost exactly Zermatt Silver.

e34nication

That's quite a series of events to fit some wheels!

Just put FM10's on my car, but have to roll the fenders.... have some rubbing in the rear.

Jherriott

They look sweet! Are they 17"? What tire size are you running?

e34nication

Thanks man! Yes they are, 17x8.5f 17x10r. Tires are 245/275.

reno808

All that hassle for spacers esshhh. Why not do it the right way? all of those spacers and extra studs will only lead to issues and problems the road. I wouldn't track it.

944crazy

This is my baby.

jackkthemackk

chrenan

Not a 951 I know, but I thought interesting enough to post but not enough for its own thread:

EliteThink

great shots. if you're coming up on a dip in the road, and you don't partially cringe, you not pushing the envelope. :-)

David Floyd

My new favorite pic.... Taken by my bud "Eddie RapidPhoto"

black944 turbo

1986 951 x2 with the two wheel options.

KVDR

It was about to hail outside.

Darryl H