Wheel Offset Discussion Thread... How far can we go?

[FoesFlyDennis]

Originally Posted by bullitt5897

Ok, So I was on my350z today and I was trying to inquire about a set of Work Wheels. The response I got was that the 370z had no where near the same room in the wheel well as the 350z and that the wheels would not fit! I thought to myself riiiighttt.

So lets take a look at what we have to work with and how far we can go with offsets.

I want this to be an educational thread for everyone! No flaming as we are all here trying to spread our knowledge

So stock sport wheels are:

19 x 9 +47
19 x 10 +30

at stock camber this leaves us with about 3/4 inch of room to the outside of the rim and the inside of the fender on the rears and about the same for the fronts.

We have seen that 15mm spacers on the rears put the rims close to flush with a few mm's to spare. I believe the fronts could do the same...


So the real question is at what size and offset have we gone too far?

I located this thread while trying to find help with choosing wheel spacers for the factory Sport package wheels. Am I the only one who thinks these wheels look great?! To top it off, Nissan is finally giving us 19" diameter below the Nismo package and on all 4 corners to boot. I have to admit I wish they were about an inch wider. That's what leads me to the question. Have some of my bold 370z brothers installed spacers for thier Sport Pkg wheels to fill out the fenders better? I heard mention of 20mm somewhere else and 15mm as quoted here but I expected to find a whole thread discussing all the details on this mod. We tend to be a great bunch for digging into the details.