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#1 · (Edited)
Ok since there have been a lot of low offset wheel threads popping up and the ppl who dont like it always want to rant in them, this will be a thread for any low offset questions/answers/pics. Any non low offset talk i hope will be deleted by the Moderator.

Some sites for Hellaflushness
www.hellaflush.com
www.stanceworks.com
www.canibeat.com
www.stancenation.com
http://driftjapan.com/blog/car-parts/drifting-hipari-style-tires/ -Thanks to nordic97mist
www.tyrestretch.com -Thanks to DYE4P8NTBLL21
http://rimsntires.com/specs.jsp -Thanks to r34zman
www.rimtuck.com -Thanks to xplicitablist <-------GREAT SITE.
http://www.dormanproducts.com/p-8111-610-4081.aspx Extended studs on the cheap. Works up to 10mm spacers. Thanks to chester.
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IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE POST THEM HERE.
 
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#6 ·
i choose to stay away from offset threads now because of the few people who bicker endlessly about functionality are the ones who ruin it for others.

this thread should be only for the people who want/support wide wheels and low offset. if you dont have anything nice to say about flush/hella flush/poke/stretched tires. you should stay out of this thread.
 
#20 ·
I'll watch the thread for B.S. posts. This is a valid thread for info and the haters need to stay out.

I'll delete new low offset threads that would just turn into a flamefest and direct them here.

Thanks

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#25 ·
thanks man you've been a very helpful mod

i put these on the lude just to prove a point. no rub minus a little from the bumper tab because they have not been shaved.
rear 18x9 +high 20s 215/40/18
not my lude but its obvious i barely has been rolled.
THEY FIT, no real rub, no problems...
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#21 ·
you could prob pull off 9's with +30 with just a roll. Just depends how low you wanna go. I think for the low offset/wide wheels look you gotta tuck tire. And ppl been running staggered and reversed stagger on there cars for a while now. Look at vw guys. Hopefully this thread will be a good resorce to the guys/gals who are interested in it.
 
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#24 ·
I think I know a little bit about about it if that was towards me. And for the fronts it was easier to put 9s in the front than the rear. You honestly prob wasn't low enough. You wanna be lower than a simple drop of course so it will camber enough for a little more clearance. I've got spacers on the fronts too. But yea 9s on a lude is pretty wide but not crazy. There are cats that run 10's on ef/eg chassis.
 
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#27 · (Edited)
wrong my friend. Lowering it more will make it camber more. That simple. A 4-5 inch drop is gonna result in more camber than a mild 1.5 -2 inch drop if not why get a camber kit? To correct camber right?
 
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#29 ·
If you're talking clearance it's not going to help though. The choice of spring influences where the suspension will be in its range of movement, but it doesn't change the range itself.

Obviously the suspension gains camber as the car gets lower. It's also gaining the exact same amount as when the "mild dropped" car hits a bump and has his tires rub on the fender. The car rubbing the fender needs a camber kit, a shorter tire, or any of the obvious choices like more offset/narrower tire. (Or clearance the fender, etc, etc).
 
#30 ·
with a drop of what I said that would make the wheels look right and not like a baja truck. You gotta have descent suspension for one to get that much drop and for two so it's not ike your riding on a 4 wheeled pogo stick. When I said clearance I meant for sidewall of the tire to the fender. Go back to page one look at my car. That was not lowered for any of the pictures posted but yet it looks as if I turned my wheel and sat the car down on it. I have measured within a mm to get that look. You can't expect to throw a set of wheels that you think are wide or low offset with a slight to no drop and expect to get that. Yea the bigger the wheel as in 18 you don't have to be as low meaning a higher offset and skinner wheel would flush. So it's kinda harder to get a 16 or 17 flush if that makes since.
 
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#32 ·
Right, you obviously need the camberz for "the look", but your post that started this discussion was talking to a guy in reference to physical clearance.


aslee said:
agreed. will post pics once i'm tucking tire. 9 inch wheels on a lude is alittle crazy imo, i tried fitting 17x9's, ended with a bent fender going up a drive way
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NoMo_Sh said:
I think I know a little bit about about it if that was towards me. And for the fronts it was easier to put 9s in the front than the rear. You honestly prob wasn't low enough. You wanna be lower than a simple drop of course so it will camber enough for a little more clearance. I've got spacers on the fronts too. But yea 9s on a lude is pretty wide but not crazy. There are cats that run 10's on ef/eg chassis.
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And lowering the car isn't going to help with that, regardless of what happens to static camber. You either need to modify the camber curve (ie, increase static camber holding ride height constant), or set up the suspension so that it doesn't travel to that point ever (spring rates, jounce bumpers, driving habits)
 
#31 · (Edited)
lowering to a certain extent to help camber in will help tuck some rims in which would normally look poked out

edit: i think we all are kind of saying the same thing. going lower will camber it in but your wheels have to be at a specific size. my way of looking at it is lowering to camber in would make a wheel that normally looks a little poky at stock ride height, tuck in a bit to give off the affect of a higher offset wheel. (that is if you are just comparing the top of the rim and the edge of the fender.)

So yes blue is right in saying "Obviously the suspension gains camber as the car gets lower. It's also gaining the exact same amount as when the "mild dropped" car hits a bump and has his tires rub on the fender. " but the point being made is to be low, with limited wheel gap and be flush with out needing a bump to momentarily push the wheel to that gapless point. also if in blue's case with the bump and rub. if you rub in that scenario then of course you'll rub by just lowering the car more with out "fixing" the camber, fender, wheel sizing.

i just kind of ranted on and dont even know if you guys will understand what i said. simply what you all said but in a different view .
 
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#33 ·
sorry if i have been confusing you guys. I've been replying back from my phone and i can not see exactly what i post till i post? But i see what your saying blue01 but. . . your saying in the above post that it does not help when its lowered that much yes it does. I know this from first hand experiance.

If aslee would have been lowered as much as I when he test fitted those wheels then he would have seen that they would fit with barely any issues. the problems i had in the front was alot smaller than the problems i had in the rear. the front needed either to take the fender liners out or modify them like i did. then the tabs that holded the fender liners on needed to hammered in. thats it.

Now again i know some ppl doesnt wanna be that low and im not telling them to be. im simply saying dont try to go that much wider or lower offset. cuz 1 its not gonna work. 2 its not gonna look as good.
 
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#42 · (Edited)
NoMo_Sh said:
sorry if i have been confusing you guys. I've been replying back from my phone and i can not see exactly what i post till i post? But i see what your saying blue01 but. . . your saying in the above post that it does not help when its lowered that much yes it does. I know this from first hand experiance.

If aslee would have been lowered as much as I when he test fitted those wheels then he would have seen that they would fit with barely any issues. the problems i had in the front was alot smaller than the problems i had in the rear. the front needed either to take the fender liners out or modify them like i did. then the tabs that holded the fender liners on needed to hammered in. thats it.
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No, I'm not saying it "doesn't help that much", I'm saying it doesn't help at all.

This isn't an issue of perception - I agree that a wheel/tire assembly that doesn't appear to fit may fit anyway due to it cambering it up as the suspension moves up in its travel. However, he damaged his fender - this is is an actual case of hitting things. Lowering the car more would have just put it in the situation where it banged the fender at all times, instead of once in awhile.

You don't seem to understand: the camber you get from lowering the car is the exact same amount of camber you get when the suspension moves dynamically to that point. I'd hope this would be really obvious.

A camber kit is different, it helps/hurts with clearance because it changes the entire camber curve - causing the assembly to have more/less camber at all points of the suspension's travel.
 
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#34 ·
Hey guys, thanks for making this thread to help us not so knoledgable people out when it comes to fitment etc. I founf some wheels that i think look sweet but im not sure if they will fit.
Here is a link: http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/pts/1975479546.html

The rims are as stated in the post : Axis Banzais 17x9 +20 and 17x8 +15

What do you guys think??
 
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#35 ·
yea 5th gen? I was looking at those. I have 17x9 20 on the rear. It'll take a little bit of work and either 205's or 215's.
 
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#39 ·
those are nice rims. 17x9 +20 in comparison to the 18x9 +28 ish i've had on the lude: your going to have the run like nomo said 205-215 to stretch the tires in behind the fender as well as some fender work (i think you can get away with just a good roll and shave the bumper tab away)
 
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