My friend has an S14 and has a wide looking body kit on it. He has some 19s on it, but they're too far in the fenders, so he wants to push the bishes out to line up with body so it looks better. How can we tell whether to get 5mm, 10mm, etc. spacers?? We wanna make sure we get this perfect. thanks.

 

1st, get it aligned
2nd, measure the wheel gap
3rd, go find some spacers.

 

wut gap do we measure??

 

what are the specs of the wheels

 

just use a tape measure on the lip of the wheel, extending it out, and look downwards from the top of the fender. being millimeters are very small increments, you can usually play around with about 5mm and still be the same look. it's honestly somewhat of a trial and error process.

i know some numbers offhand if you know the widths of the wheels, but they are for a stock bodied S14. if its just a usual +20mm front fenders and +30 rear fenders (or +50 maybe), you just use the stock body calculations and add the widebody to it...and you can usually go a little more depending on what kind of flush fit you want. if you're looking to tuck tire and partial rim of the wheel in the rear, you can get away with lower offsets, but it will require more camber and alignment issues.

 

buy a bag of washers from ace and put them on a couple of studs. get the flushness you want then measure the washers.

 

sleeperEK9: i gotta get the wheels specs off of him and ill post em up on here

dan: thanks 4 the advice. i tried using a measure tape, but it was hard 2 tell. I guess i gotta use something parallel to the fender to bring the measurement down to the tape.

jk240sx: the washers idea actually sounds pretty good. I think we might try that out, thanks!!

 

yeah. easiest method. then buy from Wheeladapter.com. He is a hella great person. I love his hick accent.