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Old Jan 21, 2007 | 11:57 AM
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Default Your thought on 1" spacers?
I was looking on ebay and I found some 1" spacers, I believe that I need them in the back at least after lowering my car. Are they safe? I have never heard of anyone using them. Its the ones that you torque down with lugs and then you attach your rims to them with another set of lugs?

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Old Jan 21, 2007 | 12:39 PM
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why do you need them??
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yea I have them they work perfect but make sure u torque down the first set of lugs to 100 foot pounds and them tighten down ur wheel lugs 100 foot pounds as well.
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I've used several sets of adapters. Just retorque them after a few miles and you'll be good to go.
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if you have very much more power than stock I wouldn't od it. YOu can potientaly brake the studs off and I don't think you want that.
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02ssLE, Thats what I was thinking about. I might just leave it as is, just to be safe.
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Originally Posted by GR33N GoblinM6
why do you need them??
I don't see why you need them either.
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dunno about where you are....but around here spacers are illegal at the tracks
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Originally Posted by 1BadTA13
dunno about where you are....but around here spacers are illegal at the tracks

spacers are actually legal at the track as long as the stud sticks out of the lug as far as the diameter of the stud..(1/2inch, 5/8..etc)
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