Wheel Adapters

72bluNblu said

Those are straight garbage. Absolute trash. It’s not a question of whether or not they will crack, it is only a question of when. There’s not enough cast material there to provide the strength needed to support those studs.

Adapters are perfectly safe if they’re made of the proper material and are thick enough to put enough of that material around the studs. In general, if you’re looking at aluminum spacers they should be billet and at minimum about 3/4” thick.

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I used hub centric 6061 billet adapters on this car to be able to use Bullit rims back in the early 2000's, NEVER had an issue with them over 8 years. they were 3/4" thick, the wheels had a pocket behind the spokes between the lug holes which allowed the lugnuts to the car to sit in....they served 2 purposes: to give me the proper backspacing offset (4.93" backspace, +11MM offset) to fit the car properly, and to help with the smaller ford hub diameter issue....

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I have been planning on swapping my rear for a ranger rear to match my BBP disc swap, now I'm starting to think I might just pick up a set of 1" adapters and keep my 3.23 geared 7.25 (lugs to car should be flush with the wheel mount face)....would be nice if they'd go the extra mile and make it hubcentric for the adapter to car, as well as the wheel to adapter, but again, it's not necessary........the ranger rear would give me 10x2.5 rear drums though.....