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04-14-11, 06:03 AM
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Snapped some pics of the new ride
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2011 IS350 AWD dropped on BCR Coilovers. No clunking or other noises but I am getting a slight wobbling sensation in stop and go traffic when I accelerate from about 10mph until about 18mph. Nothing I can't deal with.
Install of the coilovers took 5 hours without air tools and floor jack. Had to use car jack.
Now just need to fabricate some damn center caps.
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2011 IS350 AWD dropped on BCR Coilovers. No clunking or other noises but I am getting a slight wobbling sensation in stop and go traffic when I accelerate from about 10mph until about 18mph. Nothing I can't deal with.
Install of the coilovers took 5 hours without air tools and floor jack. Had to use car jack.
Now just need to fabricate some damn center caps.
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Hey Edward, the hubcentric rings allow you to use aftermarket wheels to fit the hub bore of our car. This allows the wheels to be hubcentric on the hub, vs lugcentric. Most of the vibrations and wobbles with aftermarket wheels are reduced by using hub rings. This is 60.1mm in diameter on our cars.. What you will have to find out, if you haven't already, is to figure out the outside diameter of the wheels you currently have. Then just purchase the rings. For example mine had an Outside diameter of 76mm with the 60.1mm inside diameter. They will typically come in either aluminum or plastic. Hope this helps.
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Hey Edward, the hubcentric rings allow you to use aftermarket wheels to fit the hub bore of our car. This allows the wheels to be hubcentric on the hub, vs lugcentric. Most of the vibrations and wobbles with aftermarket wheels are reduced by using hub rings. This is 60.1mm in diameter on our cars.. What you will have to find out, if you haven't already, is to figure out the outside diameter of the wheels you currently have. Then just purchase the rings. For example mine had an Outside diameter of 76mm with the 60.1mm inside diameter. They will typically come in either aluminum or plastic. Hope this helps.
However - I do have spacers on in the front. Had to so the wheels would clear the brake calipers. They're pretty big.
Additionally, the wobbling didn't start until after I installed the coilovers. From what I've read, its a recurring theme when lowering an AWD IS.
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Thanks for the advice.
However - I do have spacers on in the front. Had to so the wheels would clear the brake calipers. They're pretty big.
Additionally, the wobbling didn't start until after I installed the coilovers. From what I've read, its a recurring them when lowering an AWD IS.
However - I do have spacers on in the front. Had to so the wheels would clear the brake calipers. They're pretty big.
Additionally, the wobbling didn't start until after I installed the coilovers. From what I've read, its a recurring them when lowering an AWD IS.
Spacers are used to push the mounting surface of your car out towards the fenders to give you the desired look you are going for. In essence, spacers, unless they have built in hug rings, causes you to lose the hub as your positioning point and instead, it gets transferred to your studs instead.
http://www.wildweasel.ca/HowTo/Auto/WheelInstall.aspx
A quick google search gave me this, scroll down till you see "Hub Adapters"
