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Old 23rd July 2008, 19:16   #21
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I look at it this way. You know when you take a stack of paper cups and the top cup is wobbly, but the first few cups are secure. Well, having a wheel with the proper offset of like having two cups, (have to count the hub as a cup) having a spacer and a wheel is like having three cups. There is almost no wiggle, but why stress it if you don't have to. Also the heat from the track sometimes warps the spacers and then make them almost impossible to take off.

I was watching lots of guys pull off the track and just park their cars, so cooling off the brakes and engines did not even enter into their minds.

The size of the spacer should not really matter, whether it is 10mm or 30mm, ( what is 1/2") the stress is there. I actually like the H&R DRE system. They are a large spacer, 25mm and more. This bolts to the hub and then the wheel bolts to the DRE system. You use the same wheel bolts. I think it is a more solid extension of the hub, think of it as larger cup now.
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