Chaps, not seen or regularly see posted any info on spacers for the RRS, on nearly all my M3's and the CSL I've run them, mainly for better stability and turn in ( as I did a lot of track days ) and the wider track gives a much meatier and aggressive stance.

Now for the RRS I see some companies do them H&R etc, but wondered if anyone has run or is running them, and has any thoughts, good or bad ?

Obviously Im not intending on tracking the RRS , but with say 10/15mm all round it will fill out the arches nicely and may be a bit more composed on turn in on the road, so could be a nice little upgrade.

Thoughts ?

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10/15mm spacers= alot of cleaning
Mine gets muck all over, on standard. extra 15 mm would mean a very mucky motor.
On a serious note, alot of insurance companies refuse to insure spacers even ones that insure mods.

shepp wrote:

10/15mm spacers= alot of cleaning
Mine gets muck all over, on standard. extra 15 mm would mean a very mucky motor.
On a serious note, alot of insurance companies refuse to insure spacers even ones that insure mods.

Interesting Thanks for that, I've always been from the ' car came with it ' mindset, and never had any issues ..not sure what difference spacers would make other than improving cornering and stability..

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I've just ordered 6mm spacers to allow wider tyres (285/55R20s), however, I'm not sure these will fit due to the hubcentric fitting of the OEM RRS rims as the cone on the hub may not locate in the rim due to the bevelling on it.

If you're going for 10/15mm, it would need to be 15+mm to clear the hub cone and allow the spacer to have its own hubcentric cone for locating the rim, to prevent vibrations due to lack of location resulting from the 'flat' wheel lugs.

I'll let you know how it goes... if it works I have a good custom tool shop that can make spacers to your exact specs.

Cheers

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dazzagt wrote:

Chaps, not seen or regularly see posted any info on spacers for the RRS, on nearly all my M3's and the CSL I've run them, mainly for better stability and turn in ( as I did a lot of track days ) and the wider track gives a much meatier and aggressive stance.

Now for the RRS I see some companies do them H&R etc, but wondered if anyone has run or is running them, and has any thoughts, good or bad ?

Obviously Im not intending on tracking the RRS , but with say 10/15mm all round it will fill out the arches nicely and may be a bit more composed on turn in on the road, so could be a nice little upgrade.

Thoughts ?

D

Spacers are a poor engineering bodge - why not do it right and get wider wheels or wheels with a different offset?

There's quite some forces going through the hubs & moving the load paths by 10 to 15mm without knowing the results seems like russian roulette.

pm'd you darren but as already said, you would need hubcentric ones also the other problem that you have is that the Sport uses wheel nuts and not bolts so by spacing the wheels you will shorten the amount of thread you have left for the nut to screw on to.

get at me as i have some wheels available with a lower offset to stance the car out a bit.

martin

kahndesign wrote:

pm'd you darren but as already said, you would need hubcentric ones also the other problem that you have is that the Sport uses wheel nuts and not bolts so by spacing the wheels you will shorten the amount of thread you have left for the nut to screw on to.

get at me as i have some wheels available with a lower offset to stance the car out a bit.

martin

Cheers Martin, not seen your PM yet.. would always use hubcentric anyway, the KW ones i used on my CSL and a high end german manufacturer for all the others I used longer bolts and lockers to ensure I had the correct thread.

Did 3+ years ( 3 trips a year to the ring ) with approx 40/50 laps per weekend, plus heavy track work throughout my race season, as I used my road car before practice / test day to get to grips with the circuit .. so it was used hard both road and track running spacers throughout its 4/5 years of ownership with no issues whatsoever .. so not sure why people are so concerned with using them on this forum, especially as hardly anyone has actually used them.. hence the Q originally as new to RRS tuning and tweaking

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Anybody actually fitted spacers and can comment on how they get on with them and what size you went for?

i have 30mm lol fitted to my rear wheels and had no problams yet but if i was to put somemore on they would be 20mm

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Ok thanks for the pics nice motor 20mm on all four you think? Cheers

It depends on width of your wheels. I only need them on my rears as fronts look ok

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i have 30mm lol fitted to my rear wheels and had no problams yet but if i was to put somemore on they would be 20mm

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Looking good Dave :thumbsup:

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