Hubcentric debate

[jevs]

My car has to run 1.5" bolt wheel adapters on the rear. The wheel spacers called for are lug centric.

 

Does anyone feel hub centric is a necessity assuming your properly torqueing everything and allowing the lugs to center things up?

 

The other question is.....does anyone bother with the plastic hub centric adapters on their wheels? Or, do you just go with properly torqued lug centric?

 

I hear the plastic spacers can melt in track use, so you would have to upgrade to metals ones to last I suppose.

 

I would like to avoid the extra expense of the custom spacer and finding metal hub rings unless I hear some good argument for maintaining a hub centric setup over lug centric.

 

And yes, the wheels have conical seats and lug nuts. The non hubcentric spacers also have conical seats and lug nuts. The spacers/adapters are 1.5".

Edited September 4, 2014 by jevs

[xcarguy]

I run 60 degree conical lugs and lug centric wheels for both street and track. Wheels are torqued by hand. Track wheel torque is checked prior to each track session.

[Manshoon11]

Does anyone feel hub centric is a necessity assuming your properly torqueing everything and allowing the lugs to center things up?

 

I do.

[toedrag]

I had plastic spacers on a previous car that saw both street & track duty & they never melted. That car was also a portly one at 3900 lbs, so those brakes & wheels got plenty hot. But then again, it only saw the track a few times a year.

[Klasik-69]

Some wheels aren't hub centric, like Basset and Aero, so even if your wheel spacers had a raised hub centric flanges, it may interfere with proper mounting. With your wheels, make sure you use the kind of lug nuts they recommend....45 degree or 60 degree cones, etc. also as Shane stated, check the wheels BEFORE every session and re-torque as needed.