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Its very annoying but i was there in the shop and i know these new wheels are for a maserati ghibli only the 94 and not my 93. According to maserati in italy the center bore should be the same as my current 93 wheels also made by OZ.
That is odd. But it is where you are now. Maybe a little polishing of the wheel center bore or some one with a lathe to confirm the same amount is all round if you are worried.
The center bore doesn't hold the wheel on the nuts/bolts hold the wheel on to the hub.
One for later but can the wheel place balance the wheels on the car, on a few have had issues with balance on the car but the wheels were perfectly balanced off the car. With a little variation between spacers, hub, disc, bolts and studs caused odd vibration. Balancing on the solved this issue.
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Good to know i think i have found a place that can enlarge the bore and they can also rebuild futura rims to shallower or wider as well as making new bcd and et.
So it can definetly be fixed, just a matter of cash ha.
Hopefully they can just open the bore .5 mm on the front and they can fit the wheel as is (possible narrower tire) with wiggle bolts and then a spacer for the rear in a size that makes the existing tire and rim work in the wheelhouse or perhaps with a narrower tire.
That would be ideal from here on. As it would fall in acceptable money (i think..) Making a futura rim less wide and with a different et and possibly new bcd sounds expensive.
Pity i dont like the original wheels much as it would likely be a better option to just have them refinished and some new rubber. Its just something about them that makes the whole car look a bit flat (also not a fan of the f1 style fake center hub design).
badboybjorn
Its very annoying but i was there in the shop and i know these new wheels are for a maserati ghibli only the 94 and not my 93. According to maserati in italy the center bore should be the same as my current 93 wheels also made by OZ.
To clarify, i dont have a spacer yet i was there today only to find out how wide a spacer i would need but that was impossible to figure out since we couldent fit the wheels and see what spacing was still there or missing etc.
However the wheels would only sit on the lip and not allow themselves to be pushed into the "rim" even with a lot of preassure where as my old wheels just slip right on there.
But yeah the spacer you posted in the picture would circumvent the issue i guess but wouldent the load be on the bolts alone with this type of spacer (tho perhaps it is even with the kind in the picture below that i was thinking of putting on in which case i could just have the lip of the spacer made to the new wheels center bore specs.
Regardless the front wheels center bore would still need to be enlarged that tiny bit as there is no spacer to modify anything with and they just wont fit as is.
The picture below is of another ghibli from 93 using a spacer to fit later maserati wheels and in the front they would slip on without issues so the center bore must have been correct on those maserati wheels from later years but not my setup apparently (tho not the same model wheels). Tricky stuff!