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commodore stud pattern
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:38 pm
by Old School
I know you can fit an HR front onto FB's quite easily but i was wondering if anyone could shed some light on how easy or hard it would be to fit commodore pattern to these cars
Reason i ask is i have set of Walkinshaw wheels just laying around and thought if not too hard i would adapt my new car when i get it to commy pattern and fit these rims to it
Cheers
Old School
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:53 pm
by EK JAY
Hi old school
i have comodore stud patern
on my ek sedan i fitted hr front end
with hq stub axels and comodore discs
to get comodore wheels to fit on.
on the rear i fitted early model comodore
complete diff .
You just have to watch what size rims you
put on the rear because there is not much
room under there .This was fairly easy to do
front was bolt in stuff the rear was moving the
saddles on the diff and re welding them back on to the
right position .(Have some pics if you need )
there are stud pattern adapters made by
billet that bolt to your hubs and make it a
different stud pattern dont know how legal
and exspensive they are but they do work
as onther option.
ek jay
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:48 pm
by Alex's EK
i just bought some adapters surprisingly enough, they'll be in by the end of the week, ill post some pics and see what i can fit on them (all i have are 15 inch interceptors and a set of VZ Calais wheels (i think they are 17s))
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:00 am
by ek61
ek jay
what calipers did u use on the front
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:51 pm
by EK JAY
HQ PBR CAST IRON calipers
used some spacer washers for a better fit.
adaptors
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:30 pm
by mattymartin
alex's ek,
stud adaptors???????????? wtf, does this mean that i can just bolt on something to fit different rims on my HR front...
matty martin
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:56 pm
by Alex's EK
yeah matty, stud adapters, i got them today, i hope to try them out tomorrow, ill post pictures tomorrow hopefully. I always wondered how good they were so i just bought some and ill be able to shed some light to others.
Cheers,
Alex
new rims...
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:29 pm
by mattymartin
cant wait for the verdict....
before and after pic's
matty martin
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:28 am
by Alex's EK
im getting there, gimme time. Ive been rewiring the car and i gotta wait for dad to come back with the commie so i can steal its tires for 20 minutes. Ill get it done asap
from woodie
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 2:04 am
by Woodie
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:28 pm
by vintageholden
did you shorten the diff?????????
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:45 am
by Dr Terry
Hi Guys.
The thickness of the stud adaptor is made up for by the different offset of the Commodore wheel rims.
Be careful with these adaptors, there have been several nasty incidents with them. They are dangerous & AFAIK they are not legal in NSW. Not sure about other states.
Personally I wouldn't use them on a billy cart, let alone fit them to my 'pride & joy' & then drive it down the road at any sort of speed.
Dr Terry
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:44 pm
by FB MAD
Nope, not legal in N.S.W, I checked on the RTA site.Only legal if factory fitted and the only factory fitted wheel spacers I know of are XU1 Torana.