Wheel stud upgrade

The car was using different wheel stud sizes between the front and rear hubs. The front has Wilwood hubs with 1/2-20 studs and the rear has Chevrolet bolt on hubs for the Corvette rear spindles. The OEM stud size in the rear was 12-1.5mm.

I purchased two sets of ARP 1/2-20 conversion studs for the C5 Corvette and installed those in the rear hubs. I took the opportunity to install Timken hubs which use tapered roller bearings instead of ball bearings.

Installation wasn’t too difficult using a tie rod press to pop out the original studs, a reamer to make the holes larger and a wheel stud bearing tool to install the new studs. In took about 4 hours total including the time to install the hubs in the rear. I topped it off with a set of Gorilla open end lug nuts.