Well, I don't know how many people already know this, but here's a little informative post for ya.

If you have aftermarket wheels, the chances are they were not made specifically for a Prelude and therefore the bore inside the wheel is not an exact fit for you.

What does this mean? When you install the wheels and torque down the lug nuts, the wheel may not end up centered and will vibrate at speed. No amount of balancing will fix this if the wheel is not mounted in the center.

What is the fix? Hubcentric rings in the exact size you need. They are precisely made (to the .1 mm usually) rings that fit the space between your hub and your wheel center bore.

Prelude hubs are 64 mm or 64.1 if that's all you can find, and my Volk wheels ,for example, are 73 mm. So I went on http://www.stores.ebay.com and got some polycarbonate hubcentric rings for about $10 and they are very nice and they fit perfect.

To find my wheels' bore size I used http://www.google.com and https://honda-tech.com (the SEARCH feature)

Here's one of the rings installed on my nasty wheel:





No more vibrations.

 

nice! gunna keep this in mind as im hopefully soon getting some new rims.

 

very nice
funny...i just went thru a whole box full of hubcentric rings to try to find my size

sucks that i couldnt find any for a couple of my rims....theyre 67.1 and the lude hub is 64.1
so i need a 64.1 - 67.1 hubcentric ring

but i did find some for my other other set of rims...
some plastic ones and a set of aluminum ones by OZ wheels
fits nice
i still need the 64.1 to 67.1 tho

 

btw...are those kyokugen lugnuts?
i have them and i hate them dearly
always gets stuck in the socket provided

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SnlpeR &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">btw...are those kyokugen lugnuts?
i have them and i hate them dearly
always gets stuck in the socket provided

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Them is Muteki's I haven't had any problems at all in almost 3 years...paint hasn't started to chip off or anything.

Here's some 64.1 by 67 rings--http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...QrdZ1

 

I use a set for my konig's

 

Bought my rims off tirerack.com and they came with a set

 

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Wow, that's pretty cool of Tirerack

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Hawkze_2.3 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Them is Muteki's I haven't had any problems at all in almost 3 years...paint hasn't started to chip off or anything.

Here's some 64.1 by 67 rings--http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...QrdZ1

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i believe im going to purchase those

 

actually, before i do...does anyone just happen to know the center bore of 5x114 rotas?

 

hey i was looking for a new pair of rims. cant find much for a good price any ideas or any suggestions ? by the way would it be worth going up to 17 inch rims with a low profile tire or would i not be able to lower my car as much ?

 

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Eh...you sound like you're pretty new to cars, so I would reccomend you do some research on what types/sizes of wheels do what before you blow $500.

 

man I sure hope I can find out the bore size for the rims I'm wanting.
Black Racing pro n1

I did a quick run through Google and HT and nothing..

 

Whats the center bore of a konig gt-r wheel?? Its on my 4th gen (114.4x4) Where do I find the measurements??

 

For you guys that are asking the bore of wheels that are already on your car.....
take the wheel off and measure!!


- or have the bore measured at a shop or by one of your engineering friends if you aren't comfortable/don't know how.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Lewdin’ Incognito &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">For you guys that are asking the bore of wheels that are already on your car.....
take the wheel off and measure!!


- or have the bore measured at a shop or by one of your engineering friends if you aren't comfortable/don't know how.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yeah, you could do it pretty easy with a dial caliper in mm....probably even with a little ruler

 

oh. well then game on

 

Hawk, did you put the spacers on in the picture?

 

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I had them on there for about a year or so and they're nasty with corrosion and such now, so I didn't put them back on. I just ground my calipers down a tiny bit with my best friend the angle grinder and the wheels don't rub anymore.

 

I assume you need to measure with a precision tool like a micrometer/caliper ?

 

I've had these melt on a friend of mine while on track.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 95PreludeSi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I've had these melt on a friend of mine while on track. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Do you remember what they were made of?

 

He doesn't remember, just that they were some sort of plastic.

Here's another thread about it.
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1157102

I run plastic ones on my street wheels, and have never had a problem though, although I haven't had them for long. I put my r-comps on my old stockers so I don't have a hub ring need there.

YMMV

 

Sorta off topic, but I helped my friend bore some TL-R wheels to fit his Legend.

I didn't get any good pics because he sold the car.


That same friend didn't put the rings on his girlfriends car and it didn't have any vibration problems. My guess is that once the wheel is bolted down tight you could melt some hub rings w/o worries. That is till you wanted to remount them