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Old Jan 5, 2008 | 05:26 PM
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Bleh wish i would have never posted now, ruined my night lol
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Old Jan 5, 2008 | 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by S2k1807,Jan 5 2008, 06:26 PM
Bleh wish i would have never posted now, ruined my night lol
It's nothing a lousville, easton, Demarini can't fix!! Throw a bill or so at a more aggressive camber alignment (UK spec comes to mind) and you should be set.

Kick you buddy in the berries for selling you the wrong offset....this is not a 240sx!!
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Old Jan 5, 2008 | 05:31 PM
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Alright ill look into the alignment , ill hold off on the lowering right now, am i gonna need some camber support like a kit or something when the time comes?
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Old Jan 5, 2008 | 05:35 PM
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Your car with factory equipment can dial in more negative camber. You will be fine.

So you are not lowered and you are rubbing?? WOW! You must be dipping those corners quite fast or have blown dampers, or these wheels are a terrible offset! Lowering your vehicle, from the description you gave above, will only magnify your rubbing issues.

Do us a favor and take a picture of the wheel and fender from above so we can see how much the wheel is sticking out. I wouldn't do anything yet until we can find out the offset or a picture to verify the issue at hand.
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Old Jan 5, 2008 | 05:38 PM
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Well the rubbing in the corners is when im entering the interstate on them 25 mph ramps haha get kinda pedal happy on them some times but ya for sure ill grab a picture tomorrow if its not too cold out thanks for all the help wanna get this baby set up right
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Old Jan 5, 2008 | 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by S2k1807,Jan 5 2008, 06:31 PM
Alright ill look into the alignment , ill hold off on the lowering right now, am i gonna need some camber support like a kit or something when the time comes?
the stock suspension has camber adjustment up to a few degree( you wouldn't want to go that far in stock trim anyway), be advice the tire wear associated with negative camber.

just by the looks of thing, your wheel is probably in the middle to low 30 et, one of my 8.5 38et rear never rubbed in stock height with stock quarter with 245 tire.


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Old Jan 5, 2008 | 05:39 PM
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oh one more thing(could be good news)

the height % of your tire is wrong also

it would be 245/40/17 but you are running a higher 45 series, that could throw off alot of thing.(to your favor)

just for the record the front runs 45/17 and the rear runs 40/17 in stock trim
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Old Jan 5, 2008 | 05:41 PM
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Ya what i was thinking of doing first was going with a smaller profile and sitting it on some tein h techs dont want nothing too aggresive but just take the fender gap out
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Old Jan 5, 2008 | 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by iam7head,Jan 5 2008, 06:38 PM
the stock suspension has camber adjustment up to a few degree( you wouldn't want to go that far in stock trim anyway), be advice the tire wear associated with negative camber.

just by the looks of thing, your wheel is probably in the middle to low 30 et, one of my 8.5 38et rear never rubbed in stock height with stock quarter with 245 tire.
2 degrees in the rear is as much as I would go if you plan to stay stock height in the rear, this would match up with the UK spec alignment as I mentioned previously.

Camber does not eat tires as much as everyone thinks. I have dialed in more than 3 degrees of negative camber (not AP1, rather S13) and have had minimal inner tire wear due to the fact I got an alignment that correct my toes issues. yes you will get a bit of increased inner tire wear from camber, but with a proper alignment it should be minimal at least.
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Old Jan 5, 2008 | 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by 2tirefire,Jan 5 2008, 06:43 PM
2 degrees in the rear is as much as I would go if you plan to stay stock height in the rear, this would match up with the UK spec alignment as I mentioned previously.

Camber does not eat tires as much as everyone thinks. I have dialed in more than 3 degrees of negative camber (not AP1, rather S13) and have had minimal inner tire wear due to the fact I got an alignment that correct my toes issues. yes you will get a bit of increased inner tire wear from camber, but with a proper alignment it should be minimal at least.
i seriously doubt 2 degree will take care of the rubbing issue.

to be honest, he's(or she ) is rubbing at stock height and he's thinking lowering with soft arse tein boing boing special.

not to be bearer of bad news but just from the looks of thing it's not going to be a one part perfect fix for the op.

yes toe eats inner tire more, a well know fact and you sir are correct

and not to end your night in complete bad news: you can check and tell use the ET before wasting money on it, if you have some seriously bad offset, some of the "tricks" will not help that much.

GOOD LUCK
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