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Old 08-23-2008, 11:05 PM
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car height

I will be getting some coilovers here soon and I was wondering what height you guys are running from the ground to the top of the fender wells in the front and the rear....

Mind you I am running 18x8.5 (in the front and 18x9.5 in the rear.
I am runnign 245x40 and 275x35 tires.
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Originally Posted by whoneedspistons
I will be getting some coilovers here soon and I was wondering what height you guys are running from the ground to the top of the fender wells in the front and the rear....

Mind you I am running 18x8.5 (in the front and 18x9.5 in the rear.
I am runnign 245x40 and 275x35 tires.
i have that question into someone that spends lots of time on the track right now.

will let you know when i find out..

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Mine is 13 3/8 hub center to fender front, and 13 3/4 in the rear.....that is roughly 25.5 +/- 1/4 on the front from ground to fender and about 26.0 rear. ( 265/35/18 Neovas on 10.5" rims with about 1/2 tread left)

Those are the average on as flat a ground as I could find....Plus it's corner weighted so they aren't the same on both sides

Edit: I just realized I had some heavy tools in the trunk...so re-measured the rear was almost 1/2 in higher or about 14 1/4 from center to rim

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that saved me a fw, thanks dan!

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Thank you sir... appreciate both of you for all your help
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for geometry, don't go below 26" with a 25.3" diameter tire or equivalent based on your tire diameter

however, you may not be able to go this low due to insufficient shock travel clearance depending on what you have
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ok,

this is now a math problem! thx!

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26 -[ (25.3 - X)/2] where X = your tire OD
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Sounds about right....mine is about 1/4" low by those #'s in the front...
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Luckily I am pretty decent with math... I will let you guys know what I come up with. Mark, if you dont mind me asking where did you get this fromula
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experience, but it's just a general rule of thumb and you may want to experiment for yourself. 1/4" may be within the range of opinionated error ...
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AW....don't be too nice

I actually planned on raising it up a bit at the next alignment..but it just never seems to happen
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