Originally Posted by
SASLS1
It's a concentric hub ring, as your aftermarket wheels have a larger center hole, compared to the wheel hub.
It centers the wheel onto the hub.
Thanks did some reasearch in between and found what they were so thats fine had me stumped for a minute of 5 ..
There are Plastic ones and Aluminium ones available.
OEM wheels have the correct wheel center hole size, so no extra ring is required. All the wheel load is meant to transfer between the wheel and the hub thru the center hole.
This is why on OEM wheels, the wheel is a really neat fit on the center hub.
Buying decent high performance tyres, makes a huge difference in traction, a good semi slick street tyre with around a 200 treadwear rating, will perform 10 fold better than cheap hard long wearing zero traction crap tyres.
I see it all the time, people buying huge diameter wheels, then fitting the cheapest tyres they can find, then wonder why they have no traction.
A Truetrac diff center is a vast improvement over the factory LSD.
19's and 20's are too big for VT - VZ, the side walls are way to too small for go handling.
When was the last time you saw a race car running tyres with liquorice strip side walls... basically never...
18's are as large as you would want to go, to still be able to get a decent side wall on a VT - VZ, for good handling IMO.
17's or 18's are great for VT - VZ IMO.
Also having the same size wheels and tyres front and rear, enables you to rotate the wheels rear to front and front to rear to even out the wear.
My rears wear twice as fast as my fronts (zero burnouts BTW) just from acceleration, so once the rears are half worn, I swap them to the front, and put the front on the rear and maximize tyre life.
Then they all wear out at the same time.
I don't want to ask how the car yard got a roadworthy with those over sized aftermarket wheels and stretched tyres, rubbing on the guards.
There clearly un-roadworthy cop bate...