5 Stud Hubs

[steve33]

Thanks!,

If the conversion is done for the rear, would it definately stuff the HICAS steering?, if it is true can anybody recommend me a mechanic in sydney that would KNOW what they are dealing with when doing the conversion?

yea hills motor sport in castle hill. told me when i went there that he had done a few of them.

[WYTSKY]

Sorry bud,I don't know if I made my response clear....

it would not stuff your hicas in the rear if the person who is doing it knows about hicas....

the other alternative is to get rid of the hicas all together and have a hicas lock bar so its not like going around corners in ur average 5 star shaped computer wheeli chair... I must get onto that too

oh and a final thing... i am not 100% sure that the gtst brakes would fit onto the n/a gts4 arms... you would need to double check that...othernwise you cannot upgrade your brake system at all...

Adam

[Easty]

sorry to join in late guys just registered are you only changin the hubs just for bigger wheels or for other reasons too ? i managed to find blank wheels and had them drilled to fit my 4 stud skyline

[OoskylineoO]

im changing for wheels and bigger brakes, but im not sure if gtst gear would fit on my gts4 lol

[Easty]

surely you can but uprated discs and calipers of an s13 and do what i did with wheels my wheels are made by JZ they were origionally blanks and then drilled for the 4.114 stud pattern but i just replaced my disc for standard ones and they were s13 discs

[OoskylineoO]

hmmm, would 5 stud hub adapters be any good? what are the pros and cons?, i mean would the stud snap off or anything if i happen to give my car a bit of go? is it safe?!?!

[Easty]

of course its safe , buy uprated s13 discs , the pads are the same as a nissan maximo so u can buy uprated pads too , then find a company that will do the wheels in a 4.114 stud pattern there the same as an s13 so u can get 18s or 19s still i wud personally suggest 18 inch rims i have 19s and there a bit to big

[OoskylineoO]

cos i might take my car to the drags in a few weeks, don't want my wheels flying off when doing a HARD launch lol

[WYTSKY]

Hey mate,

I would not recommend the spacer route, I thought about it, but if your in an accident.... say at the track, and you call your insurance and they see your car had stud conversion spacers they will laugh at you...

interms of safety I have heard various responses... although there aren't many (if any) cases of spacers snapping, I had a lengthy conversation with an experienced guy at a tyre company

 He was telling me all

the pros and cons, and I was a little confused on what to do in the end, so I simply said to him: "if I was your son, or a relation to you, would you let me use spacers, regardless of the car" and he said no..

Besides, why go for s13 brakes when you could go for gtsts? do the 5 stud mate!

Regards,

Adam

[Easty]

what power are you running ?

[OoskylineoO]

im just driving an NA rb25de..what scares me is when I asked the bloke at the tyre shop the same question, he told me he havn't heard of any incidents of hub adapter studs snapping off or anything like that, but THERE IS NO GARUNTEE lol

[WYTSKY]

exactly... why risk it? also.. I took my car when it was non turbo to the track... you still can go fast, hug corners etc, so make sure everything is nice and tight and don't keep anything on the car that could snap or weaken under pressure.... ie.. spacers!

[H@ME]

i have allk the parts here to do the full front 5-stud conversion but havnt got around to it as i will still have 4 stud rims which would be killing me! i have a set of spacers here 5mm i used them as the rims had trouble 'just' clearing the gts-t calipers, so i have gone back to N/A brakes for now, but should be either getting new rims (any idea's) or working some other method out.

[Easty]

i cant see why you would want to waste money on a conversion im always giving my car a hard time its only 4 stud it has drilled and grooved discs and fast road pads and 19" rims and i have never had any problems

[WYTSKY]

I thought it was just handy and easier to deal with finding rims etc... plus the turbo brakes look alot meaner..

the other thing is urs is a non turbo.. if you want to turbo it,like it did,in the future you will want bigger brakes.. bit scary having over 200kw atw on non turbo brakes

[Easty]

you have got a point depends what future plans are , its just expense i looked into doin it to mine and it worked out too expensive personally i wud never bother turbo a non turbo skyline its cheaper just to buy a turbo , but you can get some mean looking brakes for an s13 and as they fit straight on its just the cheapest option , i dont know how easy it is to get wheels over there but i managed to get some fairly easily for mine , i think mine come from france they cost me 960 pounds which i think is around 2000 australian dollars, what bugs me the most about these cars is why they made them so different to the turbo , ie 4 stud , diff brakes (s13 stud pattern and maximo pads) and without the rear wheel steerits a pain

[WYTSKY]

yes i know... they are a pain in the ass cuz they all have little differences.. mine is a gts4... so i had to deal with a front drive shaft when converting mine to 5 stud! ..

.. in terms of how easy it is to get blank wheels... I don't know.. i did look when I did want the cheaper route... but couldnt find nething nice looking....

and $1000 AUS is not that bad for 5 stud and bigger brakes... (thats roughly wot i cost me)

[OoskylineoO]

yes i know... they are a pain in the ass cuz they all have little differences.. mine is a gts4... so i had to deal with a front drive shaft when converting mine to 5 stud! ..

.. in terms of how easy it is to get blank wheels... I don't know.. i did look when I did want the cheaper route... but couldnt find nething nice looking....

and $1000 AUS is not that bad for 5 stud and bigger brakes... (thats roughly wot i cost me)

So, what happen with your front drive shaft?!?! seems like converting a r33 gts4 wasnt as ez as i thought? lol

[Easty]

well you dont have to buy blanks like i said the wheel pattern is the same as an s13 so i should think it would ne fairly easy to pick up wheels for an s13 over there isnt it ?

[OoskylineoO]

yea thats right, but 4stud wheels look small on an r33 lol, and its quite hard to find some nice staggered 4stud wheels over here that wouldn't cost you an arm and a leg. wheels that im looking for seem to come in 5stud EVERYWHERE, so yea, guess i might as well do a conversion, get bigger brakes along with it.