993TT hollow-spoke wheels w/ H&R spacers
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You're awfully close - those aren't stock 993 TT wheels, they are stock 993 T wheels. T as in Targa, which did come with 16 wheels from the factory...Not hollow spoke, but very nice looking!
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Ok some more information on the 16" 993 (Targa) wheels, all with 70mm offsets:
Description I found for the 993 stock setup:
"New design of pressure cast aluminum Cup wheels 7.0J x 16"ø front and 9.0J X 16"ø rear. Tires 205/55ZR16"ø front and 245/45ZR16"ø rear."
The wheels I bought (yesterday) are a set of 4 9.0J x 16" to which I had mounted/balanced A032R 245/45ZR16.
The part # on the wheels: 993.362.118.01 (anyone know a site where you can enter the part # and get the description?)
Made in 1995.
Also this set of characters appears on the wheel: GK-AIS:7mq0.4wa (anyone know what this is or means?).
I'll be putting the wheels on again (with rear spacers) soon to take some pics to post and to take a test drive on them before going to the track. Danno, I have the stock M030 suspension.
Description I found for the 993 stock setup:
"New design of pressure cast aluminum Cup wheels 7.0J x 16"ø front and 9.0J X 16"ø rear. Tires 205/55ZR16"ø front and 245/45ZR16"ø rear."
The wheels I bought (yesterday) are a set of 4 9.0J x 16" to which I had mounted/balanced A032R 245/45ZR16.
The part # on the wheels: 993.362.118.01 (anyone know a site where you can enter the part # and get the description?)
Made in 1995.
Also this set of characters appears on the wheel: GK-AIS:7mq0.4wa (anyone know what this is or means?).
I'll be putting the wheels on again (with rear spacers) soon to take some pics to post and to take a test drive on them before going to the track. Danno, I have the stock M030 suspension.
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Danno, to answer your other questions:
1) Yes I use a pair of 38mm H&R DRM spacers on the rears and the wheel well fills out nicely. Don't need spacers on the front at all.
2) Yes I have front coilovers, which gives me the extra room to the inside for 9" front wheels. If my car was not an "S" my 9" fronts they would not work. I rolled the car back and forth with the new (to me) wheels/tires and no rub.
1) Yes I use a pair of 38mm H&R DRM spacers on the rears and the wheel well fills out nicely. Don't need spacers on the front at all.
2) Yes I have front coilovers, which gives me the extra room to the inside for 9" front wheels. If my car was not an "S" my 9" fronts they would not work. I rolled the car back and forth with the new (to me) wheels/tires and no rub.
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Ok Danno you were right. The front 70mm offset wheels don't work at all with my '88 Turbo S coilovers...major rubbing action. So...I added longer front wheel studs and about 10mm of washer-type spacers to the fronts and it works great. I tried 28mm H&R DRM bolt-on spacers on the fronts but the wheels rub the front fenders under extreme moves. Note that the wheels rubbed slightly even though I run 2.5% negative camber on the front. I might've gotten away with a 21mm H&R bolt-on spacer with my negative camber, but it wouldn't have looked balanced with the rear wheel inset from the fender. On the rears, I left the original studs and added a pair of 38mm H&R DRM spacers on the rears and the wheel fills out the fenders nicely. I run 1.8% negative camber on the rears.
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Washers? Eek! I would look into getting a real 10mm spacer for the thing, you can get pretty much any size you want. Seems like doing washers individually for each wheel like that for almost 1/2" could lead to issues.
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Could you try using the 8mm spacer that you can get aftermarket (also came stock on some 912's). I've been able to use these spacers w/ steel lug nuts on normal stock studs with no problems. With your longer studs, it sould be a happy marriage, maybe even able to use alloy nuts, not that you are saving weight at this point w/ all the spacers and such.
The whole washer thing would give me the creeps.
The whole washer thing would give me the creeps.
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let me be clearer...the spacers on the front (I don't have the exact size but are somewhere around 10mm) are washer-type only in the sense that they are different from my bolt-on H&R spacers in the rear. They are traditional spacers, not washers. :-)