I could probably go (or just about) lower than just about anyone on this site. Currently it is 25.4" to the center fender in front and 25.8" in the rear. I have at least another 2" left on the collar. However, it is as low as it will likely ever go.

Wheels are just 18x10.5 +15 with 285/30 hoosier A6's. Plan is to go to 315's on all four next season. I have a couple of sets of 285's to kill off first, though.

Pic of how much room is left to lower....when I first installed them the collar was only 3 threads up. The fender was in line with the top of the wheel (not tire) with a 1/2" or so left to lower. Did not like it, raised it immediately.

 

Knew the side wall was 30s! Didn't wanna guess....then the ride height is pretty on point it's just the tires putting everything out of place. Won't 315s be overkill? What's your camber?


a$$ shot is just mean!

can we say ***!

 

-3 in front. -2.3 in the rear. 315's wouldn't be overkill....close though.

 

Can anyone help me out, trying to decide what spacers to run on the front (and possibly rear even?) to help make the front flush with how the back is. I will be raising the front to match the rear as well. Currently my specs are 19x9.5 +28 w/ 255/35's and 19x10.5 +23 w/ 285/35's. Thanks everyone!




^^^ my problem area

 

Sodero....Winning.

 

Hey Bobby, car looks sharp man...I was initally going to say looks like you could run a 10mm up front to brind em out and possibly even a 5mm out back to close that tiny little bit out back as well. Shoot me a pm and let me know where you decide to get spacers from...I'm looking at some 30mm out back and 25mm up front for my stock v1 track wheels. Did you get a fender roll? I'm looking to have that done soon as well.

 

Looks good empiredude. to figure out what size spacer u need, take a ruler and measure from the tire to the fender. Whateve the space is from the tire to fender is the size spacer u need.

 

Hey Bobby,

First off, do you have adjustable camber? If so, what is your camber set at? If not, I would HIGHLY recommend doing this first, before anything else. Looks like you have quite a bit of camber but I may be wrong...

Once you find what camber you want, then determine the size spacer you need. For example, I wanted -2.5 in the rear and -2.8 in the front. After that, I decided on a 10mm for the rears and the fronts sat pretty good, I may get a 5mm for the fronts, but not sure yet. Also, did you ever get your fenders rolled?

 

Thanks, Alex! I was thinking after seeing kno's orange Z that with 10's up fornt and 5's in the back I could run near his offset and height. Yes, my friend and I rolled my rear fenders. Clearance is good back there glad we rolled it cause they would def have not fit prior to that.
Thanks, I'll jump in and look at it today!
Hey, Brandon. I have toe and camber arms for the rear that should be here today or tomorrow, as well as lockout washers and bolts for each. No front camber arms yet, but I will track some down. I also have the tools coming in for me to do my own alignments shortly (also just ordered). Looking to run reasonable camber in both the front and back, a little toe in for the rear and neutral toe in the front. Yes my friend and I rolled my fenders. They aren't super tight, but easily match the front ones!

 

All tires are in gonna see how this goes.

 

Nice can't wait.

 

No point in getting spacers when you are getting camber arms.... adjust camber to your liking and you're done.

 

Once he adjusts camber the gap will still be there. Maybe I'm confused... Unless its running super negative in the front then it'd make sense...but it didn't really appear too far out of spec...

 

^Alex! Haha...Empire Dude has a lot of camber actually...probably -3.5 to -5 degrees camber...if he fixes that and runs close to -2 or -2.5 then the gap between the tire sidewall and fender will decrease. It all depends on once his camber is set, then he can determine how big of a spacer he wants to sit flush...

 

NO BRANDON, YOU ARE WRONG!! haha couldn't tell how off it was by the pics! I don't really have the eye for it though. I'm sure with the camber adjusted it should close it up a lot more then. You bringing that nismo up to street life tour tomorrow?

 

need a little help

thinking about throwing on some 285/35/19s on my 10.5...debating on going with a 35 or a 30 sidewall...i have 245/35 in the front...would that look strange with a 35 sidewall up front and a 30 in the back ?

 

You'll want to go with 285/35 rear. The 30 series will end up shorter than the front, which is bad.

Why did you want a 30 profile rear?

 

i wanted to go with a 30 series to cut down on the tire looking extremely meaty

 

245/285 is too big of a gap, go 265-285 or 245-265

dont do 30, stay 35

 

You could always go 245/275 35. Less chunky of a tire yet still remains within spec.

I went 265/295 30 for the same reason as you. There are some drawbacks though...Shorter tires mean more fender gap unless you go low enough, as well as the speedometer variance and lower highway gas mileage.

Of course if you just need the grip none of this really matters.