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Rubbing, fenders, camber, offset, etc.
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Posted by JEM (more from JEM) on Fri, 10 Oct 2003 21:55:18 Share Post by Email
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The pre-'93 cars will rub with the 3-spoke wheels (ET27 offset) and 205/55 tires. If you cut off the studs that hold on the wheel lip moldings you cure 75% of it, but you may still have contact.

'93-up (US) have bigger front fenders.

Some measurements show that there's massive clearance (well, 29mm with 205/50-16 PZeros) between the inner sidewall of the tire and the strut housing. There is less, but still a fair amount, of clearance between the rear tire and the trailing arm in front of the axle.

I'm considering going to a ~33mm offset 17x7.5 wheel (actually 38mm, but may add ~5mm back with a spacer - between hub and hub carrier in front, don't know about the rear yet) and 225/45-17 tire. There's definitely room for it, the only concern is what the additional offset will do to scrub radius - steering feel, braking stability. The front tire would certainly rub on the fenderwell at full lock, I might try the Mustang approach of spacers on the steering rack to limit this. I hate to lose the car's wonderful tight turning circle, but...

I'm also going to look at the tops of the front strut towers to see if there's clearance enough to open up the holes and shift the top of the strut to get -1.5 to -2deg camber and +4.5deg caster.





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