Does anyone know what the thread is on the 1200's, are they the same for most Dastun's???
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Damo

Nissan Motorsports sells longer studs, but they were around $7 USD each last time I looked. If you want to go with standard thread studs, you can get them from the Summit Racing website. You'll have the slightly enlarge the holes in the hub, but it's not too tough. And they are around $1-2 each.

Hope that helps.

Yeah, I heard that the new ford falcons have very long stud bolts, in fact 2" long. Most of you guys would have seen my post at ozdat, where can i get new flacon studs as i ain't goin genuine as they would cost me an arm and a leg, maybe 2. Anyone know where a wreckers in brissy that wreck new cars (ie. write off's etc.).
Thanks heaps
Damo

I had the same problem with the studs when I went to stanza studs. I just went to the local recker with one of my nuts (wheel nuts ) and found an old turbo bluebird and knocked the studs out. I decided to be extra tricky and I took two sets of rear studs coz they are longer dew to drum breaks. they fitted fine and gave me an extra 8mm thred.

first a few questions
*7" wide, what diametre?
*are the wheels fouling the body of the strut or is it the tyres fouling the spring perch?
*what size tyre?

as dattodude said, measure your wheels' backspace (distance from the mounting face to the inner edge of the wheel) for starters...

There are some pretty big variations in the strut body to wheel/hub mounting face in different Datsun/Nissan struts. depending on how much extra clearance you need, you may be able to use another strut (with bigger brakes). I've been meaning to get comparitive measurements of various struts I have in the shed for a while now...I can't give exact measurements at this stage, but MR30 Skyline will give a bit more clearance (maybe 8mm) and R31 Skyline should be even more again (somewhere around 15mm extra I reckon).

But you will probably also have problems at the rear if the wheels are fouling the stanza strut body - the tyre will foul on the inner wheelarch (at least when cornering) unless you are fitting a wider diff.

I'm using stanza struts on my coupe, which has helped by increasing the track. ummmmm if anyone else has an idea on the topic, it would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Damo

this discussion came up once before and someone said 240z studs are the longest



just on the issue of price, for those that havent though of this sort of thing


if you want to get thread made up or material machined off you should be going to engineering places as apposed to automotive places

e.g. i want to get 240k struts, to do this i need to change the bottom spring perch to the 1200 size ones, a good idea when changing is to thread the strut and screw the perch on so that you have adjustable ride height. i havent checked prices but, if i go to some automotive place they are going to charge me for "putting 1200 spring perches on a 240k strut and for giving my car adjustable ride height" cause thats the overall result, go to an engineering place they will charge you for "putting some thread on a rod"

which sounds cheaper to you?

Wll that's enough evidence for me.

You can use longer wheel studs.
But they may need to be custom made.

The studs will be high tensile steel and could cost a pretty penny. The problem with the front hubs will be that many of the hug designs are such, that the original studs just come out in the step behind the flange. So you can remove them for replacement, but you can't put longer ones in.

Your hubs may be different, and it might work, look at your hubs.

Chris

I got 2 friends that have 7" wide rims, one mate hassimmons he picked up at the wreckers in perfect nick for $600, they are 16"x7".
My other mate has got 15"x7", which are the speedy brand, the guy with the simmons had to se a 10mm spacer where are the guy with the speedy wheels didn't.

I've only got the rims at the moment, I am putting 40profile tires on mine (215/40 16)
My wheels are 16x7.

Can I put longer stud bolts on at all?

Cheers
Damo

7 inch wheels! on the front of a 1200...

What diameter wheels are they? When you are talking that wide, then the total diameter must be taken into account, because they might end up hitting the spring perch. When you trial fit them, do the tires hit the strut body or does it hit the spring perch?

Some of the race guys might be able to measure up their front wheels. But if it's a street car, I don't think 7 inch rims will fit. Because of the original tires were so small, the wheel offset required to fit them to a 1200 gets very unusual when you go to 7 inch. It's this unusual offset that makes getting "wheels to fit" very difficult, requiring someone to accurately measure up and fabricate rims especially for you application, thus one of the reasons why Simmons Wheels is still in business.

Anyone here got 7 inch rims on the front of their 1200? I know you can get them to fit on 1600s (510) but not 1200s.

Chris