Thread: Wider tires on sport rims?
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Old 12-02-2009, 02:51 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Minicobra1 View Post
I'm running the Hankook V12's 305/30/19 Rear 255/35/19 fronts. The rear tire has a slight squeeze, but not too bad IMO. A 295 would be more Ideal for a 10 rim. I'm planning on changing to 10.5 rim very soon, so thats was why I went with the 305.
Overall the car feels very good, great tire for the money.
I'm running the Eibach springs with 15mm frt & 20mm rear wheel spacers. No rubbing issues on the fenders what so ever. However since these tires are slightly smaller in height I have notice that my front wheel air diffusers and chin spoiler scrape more often on driveways and large bumps. I was hoping to go with coil overs and lessen the wheel gap by about 1/2 inch more, but now I'm re-thinking that. I would definitely have to remove the chin and wheel deflectors if I did that, I'm actually considering taking them off now.
Any pics?
(OT) I am about to pull the trigger on some wheel spacers 15mm fr & 25mm rr and remember your comment on another thread suggesting to consider the 20mm rr in the event I may want to oversize the rear tire upon replacement and rubbing issues.

(back on topic) My question (even though I know you went with 305's on the rear), do the oversize rear tires look out of place on the sport rim? I have seen in many cases with oversizing the tire on stock rims and they look like the Michelin man.
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