Make my wheels perfect
 

I have 20x 9.5 and 20x10.5 both 18 offset coming.

How will these fit? Will I need to drop it to get induced camber for the fronts?

Should I need spacers of anything?

well do you have a drop right now? measure the amount of distance your wheels have now to be flush with the fender, convert inches to mm then plug in here Wheel Offset Calculator

No drop now, wheels are on there way. Just planning ahead.

yea i understand but im assuming you have wheels on the car now. if you measure how many mm it would take to make it flush for instance on my stock sport rays the fronts with my drop my wheels needed to be pushed out by about and inch. so i added a 25mm spacer and now they sit flush essentially making my 19x9 +47 into 19x9+22. but i am dropped an inch and a half. so you just need to do the math to see what you need to do.

I believe we are discussing two separate things. You're referring to measuring to make flush. I'm asking if these will fit properly (no rubbing, proper stagger, etc.) which is why I asked if I needed to lower it and get some induced camber.

I was unclear, my bad.

my bad lol do you have sport brakes? as it sits the rims will clear the sport brakes you shouldn't have an issue there. the fronts do sit almost 1.4 inches further out though so your front tires could rub depending on the tire specs, camber can cure this. but i believe our front camber is non adjustable with out a drop ( feel free to correct me ) and your rears should fit no problem they will still be a little sunk in and shouldn't have an issue depending on tire specs on rubbing or scraping.

Yah I'm worried about the front... Im having a hard time finding anyone in searches with smiler fitment that isn't lowered.

I'm thinking I'll need to drop it and maybe add a spacer in the rear just to clean up the look since the front will be far out.

well what are your tire specs for the front? I'm almost certain you'll rub though

245-35-20 front
315-25-20 rear

9.5" width and +18mm offset is aggressive for no drop and stock camber. They will stick out beyond the fenders, which will cause potential rubbing issues, as well as not the most ideal aesthetically. It is also aggressive paired with 10.5 +18 rear...the fronts will stick out disproportionately compared to the rear.

I can think of a couple of solutions (but don't recommend #2):
1) get 20x9.5 +27 to +32 offset wheels for the front.
2) get a SPC front camber kit...to adjust front camber at will to MAKE a wheels fit. Like I said, I don't recommend this unless you are going to lower your vehicle and need to bring front camber back to spec, or if you need to alter the front camber to achieve a certain handling characteristic.

you are far from rubbing, i have 20x10 +10 255/30 front and 20x11 -5 305/25 rear with eibach spring drop about 1" and no rub at all

That's because you have induced negative camber from lowering and I bet your wheels are nicely tucked. OP's at stock height and does not have additional negative camber. I'm lowered by 0.75" up front and had -1.6 camber before adjustment. I can estimate yours is at around -2.2 or so?

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no im at -1.75, didnt have time to take picture of my new rims yet, but i got 25mm spacers front and rear with stock sport ray running 255/35/19 and 305/30/19 and im still about 2-3mm from rubbing. (check out my album pictures)

I have no problems with dropping the car. I'll snag up a set of coil overs.

Again I was trying to plan ahead. If I can have coilovers installed before I put in the wheels knowing I'll need them I save time and effort. Hence why I was asking :)

Youre thinking it'll look off from the front though. Maybe a 10 mm spacer then?

10-15 mm spacer out back. leave the stock camber arms alone up front, you will need to run a lot of negative camber to get those wheels to fit up front.

You don't think 15mm is too much in the rear with a 315 tire?

why are you putting a 315 on the rear with a 10.5? there is no point on running a 315 tire on this car unless you are making serious, serious power. 315 is also a bit much for a 10.5 inch wheel anyway. if you are pretty much stock power wise, or just bolt ons, 285 is sufficient, and some people like to do 305 for the look, and i guess maybe there is some performance benefit, but a 315 is way overkill and its not worth the hassle and expensive tires. put more money into a better suspension setup or just other mods. a Dodge viper, with 600hp comes with 315 tires. i dont think anyone is running a 315 on this car.

Advise is noted, but irrelevant. The tires are already mounted on the wheels and were at no additional cost to me over top the price of my wheels. When I replace them I have no intention of doing so with 315's.
I appreciate your advice and wanting to help, but replacing these tires would cost more. And I'm well aware of what tires come on a viper there's one parked in my driveway ;)

haha, nice post some pics of the viper :tup: I didn't realize they were already on the wheels.

Here is something for reference: chuckd05 has pretty much the same setup. he ran 10mm spacers in back and the pictures in the thread (linked below) are what it looks like.

http://www.the370z.com/wheels-tires/...questions.html

he actually went out and got 15mm spacers, but according to the thread below they were too much.

http://www.the370z.com/parts-sale-pr...r-spacers.html

so i would go with the 10's, especially with the extra meat out back.

I'm pretty sure you're a Jedi, as I just clicked on your profile, saw you were reading that post and went to it before you posted this up.
Thanks man :)

Btw, Shoot me a pm where you're from in NY, we should meet up.

The viper is still in storage. I'll have pics in a couple weeks when it comes out to play. Yellow and black ACR :)

Man, is your 370Z the "beater" and the Viper ACR for Sunday best? LOL.

SO you were lying that it was in your driveway hmm? :bowrofl:

oh man yellow and black ACR, that car is a beast! i was hoping it was at least a GTS or an ACR, those cars are monsters, and as far as vipers go they are rare (not that you see many vipers in general)

hahah, nothing wrong with always wanting to drive an awesome car. Once my 300zx is good to go, that's going to be my weekend 'go out for a drive' car, but i must say, i love every minute of driving my 370z.

I love the 300 too. I wanted one bad, but my close friend has one soi guess we can always switch off.

Yah and now that I got you guys all excited about it I can't take credit for it lol. While it's always parked net to my car in the summer, it's my next door neighbor / land lords car hehe.
I'll snap some pics of our rides together in a couple weeks.

And yes it's a beast.

Yeah your 300 zx tt is sweet. Always wanted one when they were brand new, but too much $$$ as I was entering the workforce at the time. I'm sure it's a load of fun to drive.

Well in case anyone is following this, the fitment is fine. No rubbing. A bit of poke in the front but not ugly. The rear wheels them self are a touch sunken but the tire is flush. I have 10mm spacers on the way.

Oh and stock ride height, no rubbing in the front. Looks like it would happen though if I retained the current camber and lowered an inch. The ride height is preventing any rubs at this time.

Please post up a picture or two.

I'll get some up as soon as I can upload. iPad is cool until u wanna do pics...
I'll try to sneak some up while at work.

http://www.the370z.com/members-370z-...o-journal.html

That's my journal. There's a few pics up now. There will be more once I get the hi res ones uploaded.