angeljoelv and kusunagi can you please post up your wheel sizes and offests. as well as tire sizes?

 

kusunagi, very very nice!

 

ekliptick: size and offset is added to the original post, I think angel's set up is exactly the same as mine.

Giustino: thanks!!

 

Kusanagi: Fixed! AND WOW! Nice pics.

I am running 265's as well (NT05s). Should be all the tire I need. I wanted to retain the ability to
do a proper tire rotation and not run a staggered tire set up.

I believe Angeljoelv is running 275s in the rear but dont remember.... If you look back he posted what he was running elsewhere in this thread.

 

He's running 275s all around

 

Looks great Kusanagi. I really wanna pick some of these up.

 

looks great kusunagi! i request more pics with front wheels straight to show flushness. also some pics pointing up between the rim/tire and fenders.

 

That's gonna be determined by drop and camber.

 

ekliptik: what J said, it's determined by your drop and camber, if you're on stock camber, spring and shock, the rim/tyre will poke out of the fender, the following pic borrowed from WinningRX8Chick, I believe she's on Tein H.Tech which only drops 0.5":


The following pics borrowed from Atilla, I believe he has 18x10 +40 on 265/35/18, mine is very close to his at +42, but my tuck in a little more due to more negative camber, but my bottom half of the rim poke out of fender more. I can't tell you my camber degree as I have not done my wheel alignment yet, but at the moment my 265/35 is only having a contact area of 255 at the rear due to camber, I might need to straighten up the rear a little.

Note that Tanabe GF dropped 1.4" front and 1.2" rear.

Atilla's front fender from top:


Atilla's rear fender from top:


Hope that helps.

 

Get it!!! It looks 10x better than the photos when see them in person!! but be prepared to cope with the long wait.

 

Beautiful pics guys.... definitely my dream specs for wheels, although I'm tryin to decide whether matte black or gunmetal would look better on a LY....

 

Here's another picture for reference (that n' i like seeing pic's of my car ) shameless...



(awesome pic taken by 9krpm)


specs:18x10 +40 265/35

for some reason my rear camber looks jacked

oh wellz

 

Pure Sex

 

 

More pics atilla please !!! Looking to run a similar set up but +38 and im worried it wont be flush enough. The other option is +18 but im worried thatll be poke lol.

 

Thanks rotarymachine n' roidz.

R-Rx8: here are some pic's taken by 9k i have a couple more in my gf's photo album but i gotta find em'







+38 on 265's will be nice and flush with the fender as you can see from the pics that Kusanagi posted of me n' my fat fingers showing teh flushiness...clearly not hellaflush due to the size of the wheel gap.

My suspension is basic springs that dropped me to about .8". In the moving pic that's with a passenger and some extra stuff in the trunk so i'm assuming around 1.2 drop. Still pretty nice looking.

My camber WAS set at -1.2F and -1.8R buuuuuuut i think it's a lil' off now judging by those pics my rear looks jacked

 

yeah backseat action will mess up alignment specs...

 

i lol'd

 

wow that just made my day!

 

Thanks !!! It looks good. I think ill go with that offset then.

 

+38 meaning it would poke out from the wheel well just a tad bit more right?

I wonder how well 11's would fit with +42 and a small fender roll... just in the rear

 

Depends on your wheel width, camber and offset. Mine are 18x10 +28 and at -2.5 camber they're flush with the wheel well. If you want poke you're asking for trouble of having the tire literally hitting the fender during suspension travel unless you pull the fender out.

 

IC thanks, If there's one thing that always confuses a guy its tire/suspension geometry haha.

Just looking for some nice deep concave in the rear... concave FTW!!

 

any pics vlaze ?? that was my ideal set up. But they only come in 18x10 +38 or 18x10 +18. The +18 is probably too poke.

 

You could do +18, but you'll need to run my camber or even more negative to pull it off. I presume you already know you will have to roll your fenders.

As for pics just search back in this thread since I posted them sometime last year.