[trackbird]

Please welcome Hoosier Performance Engineering to frrax.com. A background in OEM engineering and a desire for better quality parts for our cars has created our latest supporting vendor. They have some neat stuff coming and I'll let them fill you in on all of the details. I should have website information soon, in the meantime you can reach them through the following email:

Inquiry@HoosierPE.com

Welcome aboard!!!

[SuperMacGuy]

Yes I am interested in a set.
Q- why taper the nose of the housing? Why not leave it the same thickness as the rest of the body? Beefier = stronger in my (non engineer) opinion.
Q- is the spindle nose short enough to fit stock wheels with center caps on properly? I'd like to be able to keep my Firehawk wheels on with caps for DD duty. That's a nicety not necessity.
Thanks for including ABS.

This post has been edited by SuperMacGuy: Jun 20 2013, 04:41 PM

[HoosierPE]

Yes I am interested in a set.
Q- why taper the nose of the housing? Why not leave it the same thickness as the rest of the body? Beefier = stronger in my (non engineer) opinion.
Q- is the spindle nose short enough to fit stock wheels with center caps on properly? I'd like to be able to keep my Firehawk wheels on with caps for DD duty. That's a nicety not necessity.
Thanks for including ABS.

We tapered the housing ends just to remove some unnecessary weight. Those thinner areas are where the seal resides or the sensor cap / dust cap sits. There is no real loading in those areas, therefore not much material is required. The full material thickness begins where the outer bearing races are pressed into the housing. These things are much bigger than the stock parts, and as such they have gained some weight. The stock part with studs weighs 8.3 lbs and the HPE part with the longer ARP studs weighs in at 10.2 lbs, or just under a two pound increase.

Yes, the pilot area of the pin/spindle should fit the OEM style wheels. With four of these cars, we have a bunch of stock 16s, 17s and we run the Corvette Replica 17x11s and they all fit. I was frustrated with the loss of the hub-centric feature when you add a 1/8" or 1/4" to fit the 17x11's, so the longer pilot maintains the hub-centric feature for all the reasonable spacer thicknesses.