Bukwild

Guys,
About to throw a set of 20mm front fenders on and wondering how wide you guys are running your tires? I was considering running 18x9 F with a 255/40/18.

Also I plan on running a 315/35/17 in the rear with a 17x10.5 with flares. I was wondering it the corksports will allow a larger tire in the front than a 255 with coilovers?

owen is fat

you'd need around a +15 on that 9" wide wheel up front to run a 255 tire. NyToy has this exact setup with 17" wheels/tires. you can fit a 265 if you do not lower your car too much or if you run a lot of negatvie camber.... bah.

I dont think you can fit a 315 out back without some tripoint replica rear fenders.
I have 30mm rear fenders and a 315 will not fit.
maybe with a 50mm rear fender you can fit it in there but those 50mm rears are hard to find.

Bukwild

These rear flares are 50mm.

Did you actually try the 315's to see where they hit? I might have to do this the old fashion way and bolt up the rim and measure the width.

11.38 is a 285 and 12.13 width is a 315. I am thinking I will have enuff fender well with the flares to get these on with a Nitto drag radial. The front issue sucks because I don't want to have huge tires on the rear and small tires on the front. Thats why I was going with 18f and 17r to balance the height better. I would hate to throw that off because I have giant rears and thin fronts.

RX-Heven

iTrader: (1)

You should run my fenders.
305's up front and 335's in the rear, both on 18's.
Perhaps even wider with a shorter rim/tire combo.

DarkKnightFC

**** yea. All or nuthin.

Bukwild

yeah I don't want to do that much body fab for your fenders right now. I just want to bolt on the corksports and universal 50mm rears and stick some meats under there and tear them up. The rear fenders are going to be bolt on aswell and I am keeping the bolts visible (for the race look) no bondo here.

And I will have to probably go with a 18x10 on the rear instead of a 17x10.5 Kinda sucks but I will have more of a tire choice with a 18. I have a set of 295/35/18's that some one left at the shop that I could use for fittiment.

twincannon26

i run 17x9 '03 cobras all around with 255 in the front and 275 in the rear, +26 offset. all stock fenders, but i did roll the inner lips. fronts stick out 3/4 in. or so, but it doesnt look too bad, and doesnt scrub front or rear unless i really bottom out the stock suspension.

Bukwild

Thanks,

Its cool that you run the 255's up front on a 9 inch rim with rolled fenders. Do you run a 35 series or 40?

snub disphenoid

I'm currently running +15 offset front wheels with 245/40/17 tires and if I went to 255 I'd rub without a doubt. My car is very low in the front, though, and I could run 255s if I dialed in about 2 or maybe 3 degrees of camber in the front (but that's a lot and would wear out tires fast). If I go off track or hit a massive pothole I'd crack an overfender with the current setup. This is with Corksport overfenders btw. If you want to run a lot of meat, RX-Heven's body kit is probably the way to go.

RX-Heven

iTrader: (1)

That's two votes.
You've been overruled and outvoted.
It looks as if your only choice is my bodykit
fwiw, the price has dropped to $2000 for the whole kit (7-pieces) and a little less for just the four fenders.

btw, the front fendersare bolt ons and the rears could easily be as well to simplify things. In any case, any overfenders you use for the rear will require cutting the stock quarterpanel (at least to run wider tires which is the whole reason you're doing this) and any overfenders can simply be bolted or rivetted on instead of bonded/blended for simplicity's sake.

twincannon26

40 series, kumho ecsta asx. rears are 275/40/17, toyo proxes 4.

previous to this setup, i had some 16x7.5 in. '95 gt wheels with 225/55/16 michelins, but they scrubbed in the front a little worse as far as hitting the fenders under load, i bet that if you used 50's or 45's it would work great.

my stock tII wheels have 225/55's on the front, and 245/45 drag radials on the rear, they clear fine as well, but the fronts are really close to the shock.

and by "rolled fenders", i mean i beat the lip in on the inside with a hammer. however, i would like to get the 20mm over fenders, as they would look a lot better, and should clear with no problems whatsoever.

hope this helps, best of luck

Bukwild

No time for a major body fender setup like yours rx-heaven. I need to just get my **** on the road and enuff meat in the back to hold +20lbs. Ever time I get close to getting this car ready I either overheat or pop the motor. This will either work for me here in the near future or I am going to torch this bitch and be done with it. I post some pics of whatever I end up running

RETed

If you're talking tire tread, this is illegal is most parts of the U.S.


-Ted

RETed

225 / 55 / 16 is really the WRONG size to put on an FC.
The proper +0 fitment is 225 / 50 / 16.
Stock is 205 / 55 / 16.
The 55 series makes your tire too tall to be using.
This is really bad information to be passing along.


-Ted

Black91n/a

Tires sticking out past the fenders may be illegal (pedestrian safety being the reason), but most don't know it, cops included. I see soo many trucks out there with tires sticking way past the fenders and nothing gets said, no tickets written. Same thing goes for the excessively raised trucks. Illegal in most places to go more than about 2" in either direction, but no one gets a ticket even though both of those mods are very dangerous to other motorists and pedestrians. It's a mojor pet peeve of mine, as when I'm driving along and can see a bumber out my window at head height I can't keep from thinking about how bad it would be for someone in a car to be hit by them. In a T bone accident, the bumper would hit them in the head, then the truck might end up driving right over the car depending on the situation.

Sorry for the rant, it's probably my biggest automotive pet peeves, above rice even.