dgcate

Newly purchased '94 C4 widebody.

Absolutely love the car. I'm wanting to go with just a wee bit more aggressiveness. Nothing eye-popping...just a subtle suggestion of it really. I guess my questions are...

1) will 5mm rears even be noticeable at all with the flared fenders? (I do want *some* flex!)

2) will this affect handling at all? (Spirited back roads, no track...yet)

3) my biggest fear is vibration. This car runs SO smoothly! (At all speeds). I'm scared to even take a wheel off for fear of creating a vibration.

4) why is brey krause 2 and 3 times more expensive than the rest of the pack??

Thanks
Dave

crg53

Congrats with your new car, you know pictures are a MUST.

Before we can answer any questions on wheel fitment, we have to know what's on there now, I.e. Size, width and et.

dgcate

dgcate

My thinking now is to put 5mm on the rear and leave the front alone.

Or 7.5mm...um mm

That top picture...it would be nice to have a little more rear...but the fronts look fine (for me).

-nick

Looks like a beauty! Pull a rear wheel off, stick 5mm worth of washers on 3 lugs, bolt the wheel back on just snug enough, then drop it off the jack and see what you think visually. Obviously, don't drive like this. 5mm should be noticeable. 6mm is the most that you can get away with before changing to longer studs. A stock alloy lugnut has about 12 full turns of thread, and about 10 full turns with no spacers on stock wheels. Each full turn is 1.5mm. And you want at least 6 full turns. That leaves 4 turns to spare, at most, equalling 1.5*4=6mm.

Walter Rohrl might notice an extra 10mm rear track, on the track, otherwise there's no performance gain.

I can't comment on the Brey-Krause bits, but I've read anecdotes of track cars running cheap non-hubcentric spacers without issue. And that's seeing regular triple digit speeds and high-g's.

Enjoy!

dgcate

crg53...cup wheels 55 offset 7's & 9's. 17 in.

-nick... All good info. and great idea. Looks like I'll be playing with washers. Thanks