Stub axle spacers

[oakgreengolf]

A 20mm spacer would be better for me but it obviously needs to be safe. Those cosworth bolts seem good if I go for the 10mm spacers, I take it I can get them from ford. Failing that ill find a bolt shop as suggested 

[paultownsend]

the p/n number is on the threrad....

[DOA]

iv lost the thread. but on the main cgti site it suggested cosworth hex'd ht bolts.  i wouldnt feel safe using anything above a 11mm inner spacer behind the stub.  and anything bigger than that between the wheel and disc is surely putting alot of leverage on the bearing?

Your forgetting where the bearing is at the rear! Doesnt matter how thick you make the spacers as this will not increase the moment on the bearings, as long as you use longer bolts to suit you will be fine.
Ignore all of this "cosworth" bolts rubbish (unless you like being financially raped due to the cosworth tag) and get down to your local bolt shop (yellow pages - engineering factors) and buy some 12.9 bolts that are long enough and zinc plated and they will be more than good enough. Doesnt matter about the head type either, most people think getting hex headed bolts out after years of rusting into position is easier but Im not remotely convinced on this and the contact pressures are pretty much the same on cap heads as for normal hex heads (which have a small diameter washer face anyway) so you gain nothing by using hex heads except for the hassle of finding them over cap heads.

[rubjonny]

just ask anyone who has done rear disc swap about how great allen bolts are

[DOA]

just ask anyone who has done rear disc swap about how great allen bolts are

Lol, no need man, Ive got more than enough experience with this sort of thing to make my own opinion and both head types have their own problems lol. Asside from that, this isnt a part that will ever be coming off again anyway so........

[rubjonny]

yeah either bolt is fine, tbh rear disc bolts are more of a pain due to where they are, stub spacer ones will be alright as on the outside.
on mine of course law of the sod dictated that the only bolt to round off was the top one on driver side, so about 1" to swing a hammer thanks to zaust in't way. I still have that bolt with socket hammered on in my garage somewhere as a trophy 

[oakgreengolf]

Getting the new rims tomorrow so will see how things look to how far I have to widen. Think ill be changing the suspension back too, fed up of these hottuning collies.

[Mr Blue]

hmm ive got four 20 or was it 25mm hub centric wheel spacers lying about doing nothing.

4x100 mk2 golf fitment^

I had a problem with after market bolts on the stub axel. I couldnt get a socket over the bolt head to tighten them enough.

Have you spoken to an engineer for custom spacers? Might work out cheaper

[oakgreengolf]

I'm looking at that option too my problem is the rear will need to go out by around 30mm each side, which is very expensive. Then ill need to buy longer studs. I'm running 5x100 which seems a little more costly than 4x100 too. I'm getting the new rims tomorrow hopefully, they are 5x100 but the centre bore isn't 57.1mm, it's slightly smaller so need to get this addressed too.

[Mr Blue]

You could also have the plate (where the stub axel bolts onto) spaced out 30mm each side?

cut off and re-weld?