Hey guys, I've just picked up my new to me
Cayman
2.9 a few weeks back. Really love the drive although I dont get to use it much with family and all. I do park the car in front of the house and my wife just cant stand me ogling and praising my own car every time we drive past it (not sure if its a normal thing).
Anyway, I've started to notice something I did not notice when purchasing and maybe even wish I could unsee. The rear wheels on my car seem to be quite sunk in especially when compared to the front not sure if its a normal thing? Car came with 19" black wheels and was lowered with eibachs i think. I had put in
Bilstein
B8s and changed to PS4S tyres after purchasing.
Would highly appreciate some expert opinions if you guys think spacers are indeed needed at all, for the rear only, or front+rear and roughly how much based on just eyeballing it. Had a bit of hesitation to mess with the rear wheel offset as some mention possibility of affecting handling.
Thanks so much this forum had been a treasure trove of info which led me to the purchase in the first place!
Cheers
Steven
Many use spacers on these cars for the same reason. 15mm in back and 7-8mm up front is a very popular combination, but this is in combination with a factory wheel setup, so it really will depend on your current wheels offset if they are aftermarket.
You can locate the factory offset values online from places like
Suncoast
Porsche
as they sell factory wheelsets, and then start working from there vs the wheels on the car now.
Looks like you could definitely benefit from them.
Out of curiousity, I hung a plumb line from the fender and (as recommended, and expected), it was 14mm from tire/rim to the line. Of course, that's specific to my current setup. But my point is that you could always experiment w/ something like that to find the distance if you wanted to go flush. Camber settings would obviously effect that outcome, if it's changed.
Other than that, just make sure you get some extended lug nuts to compensate for the spacers.
It looks to me like the rear wheels are the wrong offset for your car. Spacers will fix that, as Chris mentioned, just make sure you get extended length bolts along with the spacers. You can get kits that include the spacers and bolts from various vendors - I've used ECS Tuning and are very happy with their kits.
ECS make great spacer kits… what are those wheel specs? If there 9.5” a 20-25mm should be close to flush
Just be aware that too much spacer will have the tire hitting the inside edge of the wheel arch.
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If I can get the wheel specs it won’t hit the arch… 😜
Thanks for all the great replies. I'm actually not too sure what specs these rims are as it came with the car. Was thrilled when my mechanic mentioned the rims looked OEM but now i doubt they are. I assume the rims specs are similar to the stock ones as they were shod with OEM tyre specs 235/35/19 and 265/35/19. Will do a measurement to see how much spacers I need. I don't think we have ecs spacers here but I did see H&R trak+ spacers i assume they're good too?
All 4 look the same… you’ll have to pull off the wheels and look on the inside spokes…
It’ll have wheel widths and an ET for offset
