anyone taken studs out of an adapter or put them in?

is there any special way to remove and re press them?

i want to "shave" a bit off of my front adapters to bring my wheels in. i'm a little worried about damaging them though.

 

I assume you are talking about the skulte adaptors?

You don't need to take the studs out, just skim the back side. I wouldn't skim the top since that is where the meat is to keep the studs in place.

If you use a lathe, just but the stud side into a 3 jaw chuck and you will be good to go.

 

see that's what i figured too.....however andris told me originally that going on the backside would cause problems.

i don't see it that way though. the adapters do have a slight angled cut on the back side but the 2 piece rotors on my track kit are flush anyway.....so it's almost like i could cut this little part and roughly another 1/8 and be done without even having to tap out the studs.

where as andris had told me to remove them and go across the front area.

what do you think?

 

I talked this over with my boss and this is what we came up with.

It all depends on the amount of material in the A and B dimension. I bet when Andris makes the adaptors, he varies the overall height, never changing these 2 dimensions. What you will have to do is take the studs out and measure the thickness of A on my drawing. Compare this with the thickness of my B. That will give you an idea of how much you can take off.

How much are you planning on taking off? I get the feeling it is around 1/4", which could prove to be too much. The best way would be to take an even amount off of each side.

Depending on these dimensions, I would probably have Andris make you a custom set. He did for me

 

he made a custom set for me according to my offset and wheel specs to keep in line with the rear.

however, it leaves plenty of clearance which is good but also looks terrible with almost 1/2" wheel sticking out.

so, i do plan to take off around 1/4" on each adapter and go from there. after i make measurements of course.

andris told me that so long as i keep a .300 of material between the hub and the stud mounting point that i should be ok.

the adapters are 2 3/4" so there is plenty to work with. it isn't like i'm taking a 2" and shaving it to nothing. hopefully this will work as the custom adapters were expensive enough to do this and let alone to ruin them or worse yet have something go wrong comprimising the integrity and really do some damage.

a major pita i tell you.

here is a picture of the front to show you why i need to do this.

 

Ah, I see now.

Go take those measurements... now I am curious to know how much meat is there.

 

*** i love your car........ and id wanna do the same thing to fix that too..........did i say i love your car?

 

275/35 18x9.5 front

295/35 18x10.5 rear

mind you the car has a 3" lift in the front so they are angled out at the top slightly, but it's still has to come in........front and back. it's the offset of the front rims that are throwing me off......+65mm.

arrowcamaro thanks for the kind words.