Sooooo H&R spacers, anyone messed with them?

4r3s

drm is using aftermarket studs....the stock studs are used to bolt down the spacer that has the aftermarket studs built into it. You're still bolting the wheel down onto an aftermarket stud. You've effectively doubled the number of points for a moment which means more possible points of failure.

http://www.stillen.com/product.asp?id=HRTRAKSP01
DRS® Series
DRS Series spacers fit between the wheel and hub, and require exchanging the existing wheel studs for longer ones (studs are included).

DRM® Series
DRM Series spacers bolt to the hub with existing wheel studs and special nuts (included). Wheel is bolted to new DRM wheel studs.

sparky

This is the correct way to think about this. I'm not clear on the posts here about quality of studs? On what basis are people saying this? Do the oem studs have a higher shear strength or something? Does someone have proof or test results?
It's a contradiction to say you're using DRM to keep the oem studs and then bolt the wheels to aftermarket studs. I hardly doubt that H&R is selling wheel spacers with studs of inferior quality or are somehow weaker than stock.

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4r3s

Thanks for the reply, I thought I was missing something here when everyone ignored that post and went on their merry way.

MyKindaGuise

Thats not at all what some of us were saying..That was only like 1 or 2 people. And that kind of response can be easily turned around... Does someone have proof or test results that what was said isnt true?

I think the majority of us heard and took what you read to heart. No one was ignoring your post on the internet

You are correct though that it is doubling the points of possible breakages. I think most of us use DRMs just for ease of install. Personally im only using them until I get wheels with crazier offsets. I can also say that as someone who gets sideways regularly and has done 130mph+(on closed course) the DRMs have held up and have no cracks or anything and all lugs are still torqued just fine.

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4r3s

Hey I'm on the internet you should pay attention to me

point taken...I thought there was something that I was missing, it was more for my own personal edification. I'm an engineer so I like to understand how things work and if I was wrong I'd rather learn why then just have no response.