Before i waste money on my p45r's (buying one wheel at a time. ), i'm asking the forum. 17x9.5's are also worthy of your post as well. Post offset, spacer size (if any), mm's of drop and pics.

Any rub on full lock?

Any steering angle mods (tie super now tie rods and ends, modded knuckles)?

Castor, camber mods?

 

i had 17x9 -7 on the front of my car...

rubbed hard on LCA and swaybar with supernow rack spacers and haruguchi knuckles...

really needed wider guards aswell, as it used to hit the bottom of the guard near the door...

 

I run 17x9 15 offset on front With Secret Element rack spacers stock knuckles. No rubbing. I am using a 10 mil spacer at present but dont rub either way.

 

17x9.5 +15 stock fenders and steering. had to pull the fenders a good inch or two, other than that no problems.

iirc, jtp had to go down to 9's in the front with his knuckles, but he also has wide fenders

 

You're running 9.5's all the way around aren't you?

The knuckle mod wont be happening for a while....not until i get used to the car but i do want to run longer tie rods and mazdatrix heim joint ends. This helps alot on picking an offset. I wonder if +25 would rub with that setup?

 

I was running 17x9 +20 with a 235/40/17 RS2 hankook for a really long time. It hit the swaybar at full lock, but didn't rub the fenders or anything. The extra tire width made the car feel pretty nimble and grippy.

 

You just had a full steering angle kit too, correct? How many degrees of camber? Any out of stock spec castor adjustments?

 

from what i've found, the oem castor is adjusted with the same unit as the camber- the front top hats are perfectly centered, so rotating it adjust both camber and castor.

so, when getting coilovers with adjustable pillowball mounts, you can either adjust camber and not castor, or adjust castor and not camber. at least not without possibly purchasing another part or modifiying something, or that i even know of.

 

Hmm. I'll have to look into that more. Still, it's relevant to the thread wether or not you're running camber/castor adjustments.

 

i'm running 18x9 +17 no rub or hitting of any arms/bars.

 

this is how ive seen guys modify for caster adjustment. it should be clear to see but basically they are just rotating the top hat 45* and drilling new holes in the shock tower

 

Yep, or you could change to a proper caster/camber top hat with allows individual adjustment of each.

 

yeah but you gotta remember.. most of these clowns cant afford gas. drilling holes is cheap. but i would purchase correct parts if i were to look for caster adjustment... which i am. and i think those would still need massage work on the strut towers since the stock center hole doesnt leave much room for even just camber.

 

i have 18x9.5+17 effective (3 mil spacer)
semi-alot of camber
20mm over fenders
245/20/18 tires
Cusco Zero-1s. max low ride height. The spring rings are about 1/3 the way up the shock body. I could go lower by loosening the spring tension but then that would be form>function and i would be posting on zil.... alot more

w/o a spcer it wasnt really rubbing. well kinda. it was rubbing the dirt off my coilover springs so i put a 3mm spacer just to be safe

it only rubbed WITHOUT spacers during hard cornering (drifting)
with the 3mm spacer there is no rubbing anywhere as far as i can tell.

 

17x9.5 +15 with -3 degrees camber and stock fenders barely rolled. Only rubs if I slide it, which I never do because it's the daily.


Drift car has 17x9 +0 with 20mm fenders and knuckle mod.

 

use to run 17x10-2 -3.5deg camber w/ 30mm front fenders and gp sports super angle kit.

now running 17x9.5-16 -5deg camber w/ 30mm front fenders cut spindle and gp sports super angle kit.

running 235/40/17 front tire

 

is that -16 all wheel or did you use spacers to clear the brakes?

 

Ah, so that's how it's done. I never really paid attention to the bolt patterns for the top hat. I just saw they had both camber and caster adjustment. I need to sharpen my eyes. Speaking of, i woke up thismorning not being able to see out of my right eye. It's still kinda fuzzy. Tumor? I couldn't be that lucky.....

 

powered by max coilovers have both camber and caster:

 

I thought so. That's fantastic. I was planning on picking up a set of those shortly anyway. I was iffy about the bc's and op's opinions about the powered by max setup wasn't relevant enough to shy me away. I just happened to forget both were independently adjustable.

I dont like stock castor and i wouldn't mind adding a degree or two of camber up front. Yeah, i think i'll go with 9's up front for sure now. Maybe even push another half inch and run a spacer if need be.

 

Hmm though you guys might want to see this:

 

super scary!

 

Works great. Looks scary? maybe because I lost a couple of collars that go on the bolts and had to improvise with washers.....dunno. Been running this for like 6 years.

 

yeah im sure its fine but the bolts having exposed threads is what i was referring to. needs longer studs but its not a big stress point so its probably fine. it would just worry me lol.

 

Damn engineers are never satisfied.