Does anyone sell saggy butt spacers in Australia?

[Shaheenis]

Shipping from http://www.fastwrx.com/ is more than the product so a local option would be preferred.

Cheers,

Tim

[BillyCorgi]

Shipping from http://www.fastwrx.com/ is more than the product so a local option would be preferred.
Cheers,
Tim

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Hi Tim,

tom_kauf contacted me recently about making some spacers, he was contacting me to se if I could tool up to make some.
I do not know if he found a low cost local alternative.
We should ask Tom, maybe.

I would be looking for a new item to put into the CorgiWerx product line.
How soon would you want them and would you be willing to help be the Guinea Pig with the first-off samples?
(I would only be able to do spacers, any longer studs required would be your responsibility)
Let me know what you think?

By the way, would you be able to respond to my PM on the Bilstien Refurb subject?
Cheers!

[craig_]

There is a guy on Facebook (Subie Lift Oz) that makes lift blocks for almost all models of Subarus.

[Shaheenis]

Peter,

I am interested but I need the extending hardware and 3/8th spacers. The studs look like they have a square key under the head so maybe not so common? When I my second set of billies arrive this week I will knock one of the studs out and see if I can source them so feel free to knock me up a set, happy to be a test case .

Cheers,

[Shaheenis]

I would actually be interested in any feedback on what size spacers I would need in the rear. Crazyricochet had used the 3/8th spacers and said his looked 'ok'. If I increased this to 1/2" I wonder whether it would make that much difference. I would prefer the rear to be slightly higher than the rear and definately not lower (i.e. prefer car sloping to the front slightly). I reckon I will be able to source the studs easy enough.

[tom_kauf]

Hi everyone,
A freight forwarder is an option if you want to buy from overseas. It'll be about $7 postage through shipito.com (I used them all the time for all sorts of US purchases and they only charge $2 on top of the cost of freight).

Once BillyCorgi gets his design finalised, that'll be a great option as well.

Otherwise, the local OzFoz seller is another option. But BillyCorgi's design has some advantages.

Shaheenis, the relationship between the spacer thickness, and the amount it raises your car is 1:1. For example, I measured the difference in arch gap between my fronts and rears, and it was 12 mm. So I got the 1/2" (12.7mm) spacers for the rear. That lifted the rear by exactly that amount. Mine is pretty much even now.

So measure your gap difference and that will determine what sizes are an option for you

The largest size that Fast WRX has is 1/2", but the OzFoz guy does huge offroad lift kits, so his spacers start at 1/2" and 1" and go up to several inches lol.

[Shaheenis]

Tom do you or anyone have a picture or remember how much the thread sits proud of the nut on the rear struts? Just wondering what size spacer could go in without extending the studs.

[tom_kauf]

Tom do you or anyone have a picture or remember how much the thread sits proud of the nut on the rear struts? Just wondering what size spacer could go in without extending the studs.

I didn't take a picture, but the extra thread wasn't very much. Just over 5mm I'd say (definitely a fair bit less than 1cm).

The FastWRX site confirms that when they say the stock studs work ok with a 1/4" spacer (6.3mm), and *sometimes* with a 3/8" (9.5mm) spacer. In my case there's no way a 3/8" would've worked on stock studs. To be safe you should have at least 1 complete turn of the thread past the nut.

Even the extended studs that FastWRX send with their thicker spacer kits are *scarily* short for our cars. They are long enough, but only barely. Only once everything is fully tightened down, does the thread sit slightly proud of the nut.

[BillyCorgi]

Tom do you or anyone have a picture or remember how much the thread sits proud of the nut on the rear struts? Just wondering what size spacer could go in without extending the studs.

Tim, I am going to supply the prototypes to you with and equal amount of extra tread for the thickness of the spacer.
That is, if standard threaded length is 25mm, then with 10mm spacer new bolt thread length 35-40mm.
Cheers!

[Shaheenis]

Thanks Peter. Yes I know you are . I was just curious whether extended hardware was required for 3/8ths of an inch spacers as FastWRX claim it may or may not require different studs for this length but over this length (or if a swaybar is fitted) you definately need longer. It would be good to know exactly how much there is to play with on the factory studs so you know when the extensions are required.