I AutoX my Z close to 20 events per year.. My Nismo falls on BSP class, therefore I have to upgrade a couple stuff to be competitive with nasty (used to not anymore due to rules 2012) AWD EVOs, STIs.. So this year I've decided to go wide! I'm running 285/40/17 all corners (track wheels) in order to fit such large tire in the front, I had to use 15mm Ichiba spacers, and the OEM studs are too short to clear the spacers. I bought the 60mm Nismo Wheel studs. i hope the this comes useful to somebody. (I made this a couple years ago)



Tools needed for the job !!! ignore the bird seeds .. lol



Jack the car up, and secure it with the Jack Stand.




Remove the wheel ....



Remove brake line bracket ( Do Not Bent the line)



Turn the wheel to get access to the back of the caliper, take out the two bolts that secure the caliper to the brake bracket.



Once the Caliper is free, use a wire or wire hunger to secure the caliper to the the A-arm (Wishbone). make sure it won't fall might damage brake lines...





Slide the Rotor out.. sometimes it will get suck, so use a 2 by 4 to get it out (no metal, it might damage rotor)



Once the Rotor is out, use an old nut or wheel nut if u don't care and with a manly hammer hit that thing hard!!!






Place the New Longer studs and manually press as much as possible.....



Place back the rotor....

Using a open nut or in my case the wheel spacer and my wheel nut, torque all the way make sure it sits flat and straight !!!!!





Istall the spacer...



Ok Done.... now put back the caliper and brake bracket!!! and fit the wheel to make sure is good to go!!






GO HAVE FUN!!!

 

okay but why?

 

Thanks for your contribution. Very helpful.

 

Great thread OP, thank you for taking the time to put it together.

 

Thanks! I was thinking of doing this previously but shied away. Not too scary at all now!

 

what do you mean "why"?
do you not prefer this kind of thread over all the stupid "look what i plastidiped today" threads

nice write up

 

Why would you ask why if you know?

 

He clearly explained why, maybe you wanted to ask why use those over spacer with built in studs?

Either way nice write up with pics seeing it can be used to replace a broken stud aswell!

 

Nice, on my to-do list.

 

Because Racecar ****.

 

Nice write up, but new studs in your position longer studs arent needed. Running them like that puts too much stress on the studs.

Using both sets puts the stress on the spacer, which it is designed to take.

 

He's running a 15mm spacer, so he NEEDS longer bolts. OEM bolts are way too short to fit the 15mm spacer, if he didn't put on the longer bolts he'll be mounting his wheels on what? 5mm left of bolt? Pretty sure wheels will fly off at that point.

 

I love this DIY. You make it seem so simple. Geez. Thanks!

 

Just what I was looking for. I'm worried about damaging the hub by using a hammer.. but I don't think there is any way around it. Thanks!

 

If you don't use a press you are installing these bolts
Incorrectly. Don't be surprised if your hand tightened
Bolts slip from the hub. I've dealt with this first hand.

Good luck getting them out.

 

Good!! Hope it goes well for you, so far so good for me.... no issues ...

lol by using a impact gun you use plenty of pressure... not the right way questionable (if you don't have many tools at your disposal)... to get them out, use a manly hammer lol .... if it fails you drill them out by bore technique... my friends Mustang hit a cement bag that was dropped by a truck..idk how, but the front passenger wheel broke off two studs and i took the studs out with out damaging the hub ... ill try to find the pics and do a DIY threat about that, and can be apply to many other applications....

 

do a diy on the rears i cant take that huge nut off the rear hub >,<

 

My only concern is the BFH technique getting the old studs off - I would think you are just asking for a hub bearing failure that way.

 

Be careful removing the bolts that hold the caliper on. On my STi, which has the same rear calipers as the Z (I believe), one of the caliper bolts somehow got cross-threaded in the caliper and I ended up twisting the head of the bolt off. Had to take it to a shop and have them drill it out and put in a helicoil. Make sure you at least PB Blaster it up in advance of doing the work.