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cyleriggs
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 Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:09 am Post subject: Need Advice: American Eagle 5 lug w/Cip1 Disc Conversion |
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I need some advice here on how to resolve this. I have american eagle 5 lugs with 4 lug to 5 lug wheel adapters on a '71 super, all was working fine till I went to install the disc conversion kit from cip1. Now the wheel adapters are hitting the calipers!!!
What should I do, I'm not really in love with these wheels, but from what i'm seeing it will cost $800+ to get a set of decent 4 lug wheels. I really don't want to put drums back on just so I can have these silly 5 lug wheels(they were on the car when I purchased it), what are my options? |
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flyinglow94
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I am running an American wheel spacer behind my adapter to use my five spokes. It is about 3/8 of an inch thick. The spacer will bring the adapter away from the caliper. And I also machined off 7/16 of an inch of of the back of the 5 spokes (the pedestals that contact the drum or adapter).
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flyinglow94
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Sorry double post.
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flyinglow94
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The rocket alloy has about 7/16 less than the eagle alloy. This is the Rocket alloy have machined my eagles to fit better. So the answer is yes it is doable.
And here is the Eagle before I machined it.
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