Hi I have a question I bought some fd wheels last year and have been driving with them fir a while using 25mm spacers all around, now Im going to be installing some coilovers and I want to lower it, I noticed with the rim size I can only lower it maybe 2 in to allow clearance, however I kinda wanted to drop it more, just a personal preference of mine, I'm wondering if I'll still need to have the spacers and if I do any suggestions on creating more clearance without buying new tires I currently have P205/60/R16 all around

 

Why can't you lower it past 2"? If your fenders are hitting the tires and not tucking, well that is bacause of the spacers.

Not sure the ties you have, I know you don't want to buy new ones, but low proifile tires alow a clearance.

 

Well at about 2" the fenders will be hitting the tires because it won't be tucking so it's either new tires or new spacers?

 

Or both. Why do you have spacers to begin with?

If you have enough clearance with out the spacers, don't use them and that should solve your problem for a tuck when dropping.

 

Because the rims for the fd won't fit an fc with stock suspension, idk if it'll clear the coilovers

 

coilovers are generally narrower all around than stock spring and strut setups, so you'll likely gain a little bit of interior clearance by going to coilovers. i know some spacing is required to fit fd wheels on an fc but i think 25mm is a little bit overkill, i'm sure 10 mm would be enough (i'm sure someone else can chime in who has fd wheels on their fc).

lowering the car that much will also naturally add some negative camber, bringing the tops of the tires inward toward the car. depending on how far the wheels stick out at stock height, you may just need to roll the fenders a little.

take some pictures looking down the side of the car and let us see what you're working with

-sean

 

with my rsr race springs in the front i seriously have 1cm of clearance from my tire to spring i'm running 205/55/16's ever so often it does rub the spring but i don't notice it until i pull the tires and see clean spots on the springs from it rubbing ever so often. Mine have been like this for 2 years so. I also am not running spacers.

 

I have a couple sets of FD wheels for my car, and I run 245/45-16 on both sets. I originally used 20mm spacers up front and 25mm spacers in the rear. I had to do a bit of a roll in the rear and would have needed to do a roll up front for anything less than -1.0 degrees camber.

When I switched to my Fortune coilovers, I switched to 15mm spacers up front and 20mm spacers in the rear. I can run with no spacers at all, but it hits the inside of the fender well a fair bit before full lock. My only gripe with the 15mm spacers is they don't have the depth to use hubcentric rings.

With 15mm or 20mm spacers I get no rubbing anywhere from lock to lock until the suspension bottoms and I hit the fender liner.