Show your 951 pics here......
#3618
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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.
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.
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RK951 (06-26-2022)
#3620
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#3622
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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.
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.
#3626
great shots. if you're coming up on a dip in the road, and you don't partially cringe, you not pushing the envelope. :-)