Steel spacers v alloy spacers.

[Šįk]

So how much heavier are the steel hub-centric spacers over the alloy ones? Ideally 15mm spacers (30mm per axle) if its only a couple kg's per corner then I Ain't too fussed tbh as its only for a diesel (all show no go kinda crack).

P.S were can I buy good quality extended wheel bolts for a good price? Anyone know the standard bolt size by any chance? Or should I stick to the bolt to hub type-b spacer? As its only 15mm I would of thought type-A wouldn't be too bad if used with quality bolts??

Cheers, Piers.

 

[JBC27]

25mm steel spacers weigh about 2kg's each so you are looking at a little over 4kg's unsprung weight per pair of wheels. Fitted a set of 25mm alloy ones today and they are a lot lighter but haven't weighed them so couldn't tell you exactly but I'd say the alloy ones are probably 0.5kg's each so 1.5kg lighter than steel.

Venom Motorsport sell longer wheel bolts or you can probably buy em on ebay...

Personally for 15mm i'd go for type B. Bolt the spacer to the hub and the wheel to the spacer. Assuming you are going for hubcentric I don't think it really matters whether you go for a longer bolt or do the bolt spacer to hub and wheel to spacer option.