Help! Caliper clearance
01-19-18, 09:04 PM
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Help! Caliper clearance
Just bought these some new wheels and the fronts don't clear the calipers on my '16 is350 Fsport tried on 10mm spacer and still no and I feel any bigger of a space will be too aggressive. Wheel specs in the front are 19x8.5 + 36 but I made the mistake of selecting the Face2 variation of the wheels for the fwhich are more concave designed so the inner part of the wheel spokes where they start to dip in makes contact with the caliper. I had this idea that if I got a BBK so that the calipers would be further out due to larger disk diameter..they would clear cause it'd be under the part of the wheel that isn't as caved in. Any other suggestions would be immensely appreciated!
The wheels are the Gramlights 57ANA
The wheels are the Gramlights 57ANA
01-19-18, 10:40 PM
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In my experience with previous vehicles, your only option is to run a spacer. I've seen guys shave calipers down... but I personally would never recommend that. I've also seen guys machine the wheel down... also something I personally would not recommend. But, I have seen both done. Nice wheels though!
01-20-18, 12:18 PM
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I could be wrong but I think this might be a problem because of the spoke design since you said even a 10mm spacer didn't work. I also got 19x8.5 wheels +35 in the front which look a little more concave in the front than yours but a small 3mm spacer was able to fix my problem of caliper clearance
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