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Old 10-02-2016 | 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Chuck S
The car has staggered tire sizes for performance and handling -- not ricer stanced cosmetic reasons. The car understeers with the 215mm front tires and that will be acerbated with wider tires. Yeah, you can tune some of this out of the suspension. Do you know how?

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I'm struggling to understand your reasoning. If a car tends to understeer with a given front tire size width, dramatically increasing that front tire width, all else being equal, will reduce understeer tendencies. Widening a cars front tire cross section will make it less understeer, more oversteer.

Widening front tire will not acerbate understeer.
Old 10-02-2016 | 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Chuck S
The car understeers with the 215mm front tires and that will be acerbated with wider tires. Yeah, you can tune some of this out of the suspension. Do you know how?

-- Chuck
Huh? Do you?
Old 10-02-2016 | 09:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Frida83
Originally Posted by Manga_Spawn' timestamp='1475253305' post='24073545
^Or a 5mm spacer does the trick as well.
Don't you need extended studs to run a 5mm spacer safely? Or is that just if you're tracking the car
Its fine for tracking or street duty, meeting the minimum 6 full turns required. Bore the wheels if you like, but a 5mm spacer works as well.
Old 10-03-2016 | 03:45 AM
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My post was a dyslectic typo for want of a better term. These cars OVERsteer in stock condition. Early models have more than later.

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Old 10-03-2016 | 06:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Chuck S
My post was a dyslectic typo for want of a better term. These cars OVERsteer in stock condition. Early models have more than later.

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Ah. We've all been there... Makes perfect sense now.
Old 10-10-2016 | 07:01 AM
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Back to the original posted issue.

So I actually bought rear wheels for the front and as stated above they don't fit the hub in the front. Of course I didn't know this because I guess I didn't ask and had to learn the hard way.

I also bought 5mm spacers but they don't fit the hub either...

I was wondering where can take the wheels to get them machine bored and what's the size of the front center hub?

Or is it better to buy spacers that fit, not sure if there is a machine shop near me.
Old 10-10-2016 | 07:08 AM
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I did a quick search and couldn't find any 5mm spacers that will fit the front hub, does anyone have any suggestions?
Old 10-10-2016 | 07:14 AM
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Why not have them bored out to fit instead of running spacers?
Old 10-10-2016 | 07:14 AM
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...any machine shop can do it for you.
Old 10-10-2016 | 07:44 AM
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I can't find a machine shop near me.



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