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Originally Posted by Vekke
Those long lugnuts have been on my mind for few months, but the problem is that people will need different lengths of lugnuts. Other solution would be adaptors between lugnuts and hubcap. So you would built the spacing you need with spacers. If all this would work the last problem is that I dont think that would be stiff enough for top speed driving. Attachement is quite centre and most of the weigth is on the outer edge. So in tight turns there will be lots of stresses that try to rip the capsel in half. Fatigue may brake it sooner or later.
Estimation for own lugnut tool was about 1000€ so not that expensive...
Also what I have learned from stanless steel hubcaps that the attachement bolts rost easily. That can be solved. I am not at the moment going with those long lug nuts  . |
My thought was that the lug nut would just have to be long enough to allow a bolt to thread into securely after it seats the rim. Using a spacer (like what I did fer my belly pan and couplers) will determine the "spacing" from the wheel to the cover. I used schedule 40 PVC pipe fer my belly pan and it's held up just fine. You can just use standard zinc coated hex bolts to keep the cover on.