You can get 80mm studs and NUT the wheel. There may not be BOLTS available to go beyond 1.25", but you can get a thicker spacer on there if you need to with other methods.
I vastly prefer the stud method, since you have something to hang the wheel on and you're not trying to juggle the weight of the wheel, its position, and a lug nut.
Pete
I have 2 1/2" studs
What I did today was loosen the stud in the hub, to allow wheel nut purchase with the 1.5" spacing. Not safe to put weight on, but fine for test purposes.
So. Measuring the strut insert travel from upper spring perch to spring seat, (with no spring & no gaiter installed) have 10" total free length, 5.5" inch fully compressed. So 4.5" total travel.
Installed in the car, I get 7" length before the suspension is fully compressed, so only 3" available travel.
At that point, the tire was just scraping the forward inner lip
So, I made a brace to push the arch outward
which wasn't enough, so I added a mid section brace, and filed the inner fender lip.
When I make the fender support liners, that will hold them properly.
With that, I have 1/4" space fully compressed.
Repeated the process for the right side, checking travel & clearance with no spring, then installing spring. More clearance in the right forward arch, so adding the braces was enough, didn't need to file the inner lip.
I get 10" from the hub center to the fender lip fully compressed.
Full drop, it's 15.5" hub center to lip
Sitting at normal position I get 12.25" hub center to lip.
Slight problem with both rear Coilovers - offset on lower cap was off by about 1/8". Had to use the BFH to reset the caps to prevent contact with the CV and bolts
Rear Coilovers with 10" 140/250 springs installed. Set with spring only just resting on perches, no preload.
Bought 4 73/57.1mm hubcentric rings off Amazon for 7 bucks. Had the 4 centers enlarged on the lathe to 58.3mm (2.295") at the machine shop for 10bucks.
only needed a pair for the fronts, since no spacers are used there
After driving, the rears settled to 22.25" ground to fender lip. I need to pretension the springs to raise it back to 23".
Next I need to start on the