2011 tsx 4cyl lowered with tein s tech (1.5")

What spacers to push those out w/o needing to roll lip. Stock is so sucked in!

15mm?? Also stock lugs fine?
Anyone now of a good priced spacer for this.

Gonna rock stock rims/tires for the winter. then look in the spring for some new rims!

 

I would say 15mm rear and 10mm front

 

I'd say do 15mm front and 20mm rear. This setup shouldn't rub even with a drop. If you're unsure, there's at least one thread I know of where there are lots of discussions (with pics) about spacers. Do a quick search.

And yes stock lug nuts are fine on the stock wheels. They're not fine on most aftermarket wheels.

 

wait, so the stock lugs are Long enuf to run 20mm spacer and stock rim?

 

To run spacers above about 3 or 5mm in length, you need to either get the adapter style spacers, or extended studs for the regular spacers.

Here's an example of the adapter style spacers:

Basically the spacer goes over your car's studs, and then you tighten on some supplied nuts over each said stud, to keep the spacer in place. Also notice, the spacer comes with its own set of studs. These studs will point outwards, and act as your new set of wheel studs. Your wheel will be put over these new studs, and you will tighten your OEM lug nuts onto the said spacer studs. I'm running these exact spacers with no issues.

Now, you may or may not have heard of a couple of issues related to this style of spacers. 1 is safety. They are safe, as long as you install them properly. I've never heard of an issue where these typw of spacers failed if the person installed them properly, following the recommended torque spec. 2 is not being able to fit your wheels onto this style of spacer if you run less than 20mm, unless you shave the OEM studs. This point is true, but doesn't apply to our stock wheels. The reason people say this is that, if you use this style of spacer, the stock studs may pertrude out of the spacer too much, and the wheel may not be able to properly sit on top of the hub-centric part of the spacer (the raised cylindrical part that looks like the circle on your hub). This doesn't apply to our stock wheels because our stock wheels have grooves/pockets behind the face of the wheel to allow for this particular scenario. So the OEM studs, even though are pertruding out of the spacers a little, will not be an issue as they will hide behind these pockets/grooves on the wheels. Our OEM wheels are made by Enkei, so it's nice of them to consider people who may want to add spacers.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about (not my car, nor is it a TSX, but will suffice):

The studs sticking out, are the new studs provided by GarageLine, which your wheels will now sit on. No issue with length of stud because it's a new stud altogether. The five nuts you see are being used to hold the spacer down to the hub of the wheel via the OEM studs. You can imagine if the spacer was a thinner one, i.e., 10mm (this one is probably 20mm), then the nuts/OEM studs would stick out of the spacer a bit. This is what I meant by problem #1, but is not a problem for us because we have grooves in the back of our wheels to accommodate for this.

Here are the grooves I was talking about (again, not a TSX wheel, but the point is we have them too):

This visually demonstrates how, if the nut/OEM stud sticks out more than what you see in the picture above, it shouldn't be a problem. The words in red may be correct for whatever car this spacer was installed on (maybe because the stock studs are long on that car), but for the TSX we'd require these grooves on a 15mm spacer or less.

I kinda just typed without thinking much... I said the same points many times. Hopefully this helps.

 

awesome info. Thanks

Also i did try and search for a thread on the spacers. can't seem to find.

Also sounds like garage line recommends 20 front 25mm rear.

Sounds right?, assuming stock rims and 1.3" drop?

Anyone have link fro the thread on spacers mentioned above?

 

If you pop a search i believe this guy w/ a wagon did 25mm all around w/ no drop. I believe i went w/ 20 or 25mm in the rear w/ a 2" drop. So what your looking at is fine. Also you can find some cheap ass spacers on eBay like i Did ^^

 

here is best i could find:
https://acurazine.com/forums/tires-w.../#post14881322

post 10 has a stock height with 20mm on all. Looks about right, just not sure how dropping effects tucking wheels?

do you have any pics of your setup? like to see how the spacers look to behind rims.

I'd like to go out more than less, but definitely don't want them outside.

 

Dropping will tuck the rears. Front not so much. I'd say do 20/25