Wheels that clear 4 piston brakes.

[LittleRedSpirit]

Hey everyone,

I was just hoping to get a bit of a resource together that shows which wheels have a design which can clear 4 piston brakes on AE86 struts. Preferably without spacers.

What Do you do to make your front wheels clear the 4 piston calipers?

Im talking about spoke clearance, not diameter.

So if you have FC or TTT brakes, perhaps even Hoppers Stoppers, Greddy 6 piston or volvo calipers that stick out further toward the spoke area of the wheel, what setup do you have to run to clear them.

Ill get the ball rolling.

I have SSR MK3s and they dont clear 4 piston brakes very well. Also My Performace meshies didnt clear them either.


Theres two wheels I know of with a fair step from the mounting face to the spokes.

1. SSR MK2R look to me like they would clear big calipers.
2. I have some wheels I never heard of. Monobox or something, 15x7.5 +20 or so, that have a decent step. they clear my Wilwood calipers, but I have to run spacers to clear the strut as the tyre rubs, not the rim. See picture:

They have a 12 or 13mm step from the hub face to the spoke material which helps alot with clearance.

[DRFTR86]

i run FC front calipers
Performance superlights on the front, clear very well
also some sportmaxx wheels will clear

[sundee]

you are after what they call the "X Factor" or caliper clearance. performance state this in their specs.. well i asume they do because its on their site.
superlights and watanabes are your best pic i think.
meshies, like u said dreaming, if u jig around your rotor/LCA combo and make a custom bracket u can get around this.. im setting up R32 gtst calipers all round..
its the only way around it unless u wanna run +ve offset wheels.

[Hen may possibly be a nut]

Be careful with Superlights. It varies from model to model (eg 15x6, 15x7 and 15x8 all differ) and possibly year too. My old 15x6 Superlights from maybe 2002 had SFA X factor (6-7mm only). So check carefully.

MX73 wheels with the stacks of small radial "spokes" have heaps of caliper space.

Hen

[LittleRedSpirit]

ok this is good, Im sure there must be others out there.

ill write it up into a do clear and dont clear list once we get enough responses.

Then it can go in tech articles.

[sundee]

i would think that all the work equips and SSR MK series wont be any good, Longchamps may work.. im just thinking of the wheel design here in my head..
^ Hen thanks for that.. thats a great tip about superlites!

[Oly AE86]

15x8.5 Watanabes have no clearance and nor do SSR Mesh in 15x 7.5 -7 (obvious that one) running a spacer with both wheels over FC Calipers.

I know the Rota Grid 16x8 +10 DO clear RX7 FC Calipers

[johl]

yeh mk2's are flat so no big calipers in there but my meisters look as though they have plenty of room for big calipers

[lo_rolla]

My Equip 01s 15X8.5 -22 needed a 8mm Spacer.

[driftke70]

my various ssr and volk mesh 14x8 - 14 x 9 of various offsets clear hilux calipers,

something to roll around the ole noggin, AFAIK the t18 struts have a hub with slightly more spacing, so could negate the need for a spacer, this is a rumor,

i know for fact though, that if you are running xt130 struts rt hubs give more clearance for calipers. i think ra60 hubs are the same as rt.

te37 clear well, my performance challengers i had a while back cleared well too.