Hey guys... well, the other night I just got done installing ksport coilovers, spc a arms, spc camber arms and spc toe bolts on my 03 350z, the car's been lowered quite a bit, and I realize the rubbing is due to my tire meeting the fender when corning hard. Today I went to get my alignment done, everything got back into spec - and I had the alignment guy set my front camber to 2.5* and rear to 2*. On the way home, I usually get off the freeway and there's a corner I'll usually take around 45 / 50 (When I had stock suspension / ride height and all that) and as I dove into the I heard the terrible noise of front tire rub and my steering get all twitchy as it rubbed

Here is how the car currently sits



As you can see, up front I have about 0.25" of gap between the top of my tire and my fender, I've had my fenders rolled in the front, am running a 235/35 tire on a 19x9.5, dampening up front is set at about 25 out of 32 clicks, so fairly stiff.

I realize I'm most likely going to get flamed.. I have little to no experience tuning suspension when it comes to dampening / spring rates, not sure if adjusting those would aid in my rub?

I'm not opposed to raising the car up in order to prevent rubbing while cornering, I'd just like to keep a nice mix of function and form. lol

 

low & SLOW...

 

get your fenders rolled and flared, should help little

 

lift it, get it realigned and call it a day. not to mention it is near on impossible to drive that low.

 

YOur car needs to come up a bit, minimum 1/2 should help a lot.

 

Thanks guys. Yeah I've been this low about a day, and it's not terrible driving around where I am, but any major bumps I hit - wow.. It's bad. I'll probably bring the car up about 1/2" and see what happens from there.

 

I had to lift mine so it wouldn't rub when the car would squat or dive.

 

Raise your car, add camber, or remove a section of your fender-lining

You can't go that low and not expect to have issues

 

+1

folks do it for look!

then want to go fast, not happening...

 

Exactly!

 

9.5 front wheel and what offset? 235 is skinny on a 9.5. I'd put a 265-275 on that mother. My front 9.5s have 285s!

 

Everyone is going to tell you to go with a bigger tire, raise the car etc. But they're all about a different look. I guess some people like to daily with extremely fat tires which is more power to them. Some guys like the stretch look and some people like the fat tire look. I hate people who try to convert others. Obviously this guy likes the stretched tire look so let him keep on doing it!

Anyways OT: You could try a phonebook pull on the fronts as seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BRBe9joBbA . It depends where you're rubbing though. For me, I pulled my fenders as much as possible and got a pretty awesome pull. However I was rubbing too tall of a tire and no matter how much I pulled I would rub on sharp turns. This is because I'm rubbing on my bumper, and there's nothing you can do about that. The only solution you can do is buy a smaller tire. List your specs and we can further help you find a solution. The solution may be as easy as pulled the fenders more with a phonebook, which is a simple 10 minute job and it will make worlds of a difference. Or you could just add more front camber. List your specs! Wheels/offset/tiresize.

 

The tire was rubbing on the bumper? What was the tire size? I don't follow how it'd rub on the bumper. ? . ?

 

Ahh, alright I had my front fenders rolled but I'll probably pull them more.

As far as my setup I'm running a 19x9.5 +12 235/35/19 with 2.5* camber up front, ride height I'll find out in about 20 mins

 

If you're rubbing your inner fenders pulling it won't help by itself, you need to section out the fenders lining or remove them entirely (which I don't recommend) but plenty of the hellaflush fanboys do it

 

Ok, the car is about 24.6" from ground to highest point of the fender on all 4 sides. I know my heighy ratio of .967 or whatever it is is way off correct? Will raising the rear a bit to get it back into an acceptable height ration aid at all? JasonZ or his name is close to something like that posted about it

 

+1

Should help.

 

+ 1 for the phone book pull or maybe if it still persists step down to some 18's with the same tire/rim specs