Could someone tell me if 19" volks (gt-c's) with a +22 offset will fit properly with tein flex dampers?? thanks

 

You might be getting close to rubbing the inside of the fender with that little of an offset.

 

so waht would be the right offset with those dampers, and those rims....whrs the mackin guy who posts on this forum sometimes??

 

30mm in the front on an 8" wide wheel
43mm in the rear on a 9" wide wheel

 

im goin 8.5" and 9.5"...thsoe offsets still gonna work?

 

The perfect offsets for those sizes would be

33mm front
46mm rear

You could probably get away with subtracting a maximum of 3mm on each wheel, but I wouldn't go any lower than that.

If the wheel you're looking at is 19x8.5 with a 22mm offset....that means the wheel will stick out 14mm farther than the stock wheel in front.

14mm = .55 inches (over half an inch) This might sound like a small amount, but when you're talking about lowering and clearnace, a half an inch can be the difference between rubbing and not rubbing, or having to roll a fender in order to keep from rubbing.

 

even if hte wheel has a big lip on it?? sorry, offset stuff always confuses me

 

33 and 46mm?? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't stock 30mm? And doesn't it sit in quite a bit already? And isn't the Teins supposed to be pretty thick? By going up instead of down on the offset, it would set the wheels farther in, than farther out. So wouldn't that not clear the struts? Especially with 46mm??

 

You have to remember that you're adding width to the wheel.

http://www.tirerack.com/wheels/tech/offset.htm

http://toy4two.home.mindspring.com/offset.html

 

But with the stock 7.5 and 8" rims, there's about an inch and a half of space between rim and fender for the front and almost 2 for the rear. So with a 8.5" rim in front, it's only 1/2" more closer to the fender and 1/2" closer to the strut. Also, the guy from Mackin said that with a 9" rear rim, you can theoretically go from +22 to +40 in the back. With of course a little rolling of the fender at +22mm offset.

 

SkiDDAzzle might know, I think he's getting the same setup.

Mike

 

a) 19x10 with 32+ offset shown below...

b) ...40 is too much and will look like crap and also hit any coilovers. Nismo seems to think that 9.5 inch with a 30+ offset will clear everything. 35+ is too much for nismo coil overs. Yes nismo is referring to a 9.5 inch rim, or I may be misonformed so please see argument a).

 

What size and offset is the front?

 

19x8.5 and 29. looks good huh?

 

ok, according to the guy from mackin, the proper offset for 19" gt-c's should be 19x8.5 +27 offset, 19x9.5 +24 offset...

 

27 and 24...NOW were talking!!!

 

Yeah, that is nice. Do you have anymore pics of it?

 

GTC : 19x8.5 +27 front 19x9.5 +34 rear

These are the proper offsets. And yes they will work with the Tein setup. Just happens to be the setup I'm planning to run. I was gonna get the LE37T's, but then I saw another car with them last weekend at the track So I decided to get the Mercury Silver GT-C's. We have several sets of the GT-C's already in the US, more to come later this month.

 

ok, now im confused about hte rear..jeremys sayin +34 in the rear, hte guy from mackin is sayin +24in the rear....how can there be such a big diff in which to use in the rear....

 

may I please point out that no matter what anyone SAYS, the red car pictured above has 32+ for a 10 inch rim. This would indicate to me that anything 10" or less should definitey have less than 32+ offset. This red car is perfect....

https://my350z.com/forum/showthread....hlight=IFORGED

im gonna bump that thread right now.... bye bye