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Buying new wheels. If I have the centerbore machined to fit the front hubs and do all four to avoid having a pair of front-only wheels, I'll have a different problem of the rears not being hub-centric. I do not want to run spacers (assume the offset is within usable range without them). I don't get the impression that many people are solving this problem by machining the front hubs (which seems a bit sketchy). Is everyone machining only one pair and mount/unmount in order to rotate the tires?

I'm pretty sure roadster wheels are lug-centric. I suggest getting all 4 wheels to match.
Also, if you are buying Rotas/VTOs don't they sell "ready for roadster center bore" wheels?

+ 1 on lug-centric.
The tapered wheel/lug nuts will draw the rim into alignment as they are tightened up.
Parallel shank lug nuts are awful to use and modern wheels rarely employ them.

I machined all 4..

Depends on the wheel. Some dont have enough material to substantiate removal, sketchy.
I took a little off of the hub, and a little off the wheel.

The front is Hub and Lug centric, the rear is Lug centric. I have VTO retro 4 wheel and machined all of them.

All four it is then. I was looking at panasports via datsunparts...I haven't asked them if those are custom-bored for the roadster

oppositeLock wrote:All four it is then. I was looking at panasports via datsunparts...I haven't asked them if those are custom-bored for the roadster

Confused. You already have a set of wheels that need machining?
Z/Roadster Panasports do not need machining. Datsunparts sells wheels that will fit your roadster.

Alvin wrote: Confused. You already have a set of wheels that need machining?
Z/Roadster Panasports do not need machining. Datsunparts sells wheels that will fit your roadster.

Oh, excellent...didn't realize that. I took their listing to mean correct offset, but necessarily correct centerbore.

No, haven't ordered yet. Just wanted to get a clear idea of what others were doing before laying out the cash.

fj20spl311 wrote:The front is Hub and Lug centric, the rear is Lug centric. I have VTO retro 4 wheel and machined all of them.

pebbles wrote:Depends on the wheel. Some dont have enough material to substantiate removal, sketchy.
I took a little off of the hub, and a little off the wheel.

I find VTO wheels (retro 4 wheels) with a center bore of 73.1 mm. From your comments I trust the
center bore of the wheels need to be machined to a larger diameter for the front hub. Or?

FUTOFAB offers a 1/8" (~3mm) spacer with a 3" hole. Seems this would
work without machining the hub or the wheel?

The offset options are 24 mm or 3 mm. Looks like 3 mm is a non starter.

Seems the spacer (~3 mm) might be okay without machining the wheels?
Does the 3 mm spacer yield an effective 18 mm offset with a +24 mm offset wheel?

Another option is panasport wheels which seem would work and no stud changes
or spacer or machining.

looking at Retro 4 Wheels catalog, 15x7 are available in +0, +12, +18 while 15x6 are available in +0, +3 and +24.....it looks like you might be able to get +22 custom drilled.

Alvin wrote:I'm pretty sure roadster wheels are lug-centric. I suggest getting all 4 wheels to match.
Also, if you are buying Rotas/VTOs don't they sell "ready for roadster center bore" wheels?

VTO center bore for the roadster is 73.1 mm.
It seems this might be compatible with your favorite-- the mg.
Suspect it's too small for a roadster front hub though?