I want to get the work emotion xd9's.


front: 17 x 7.5 50 offset
rear: 17 x 8.5 42 offset
pcd: 5 x 114

Is this good for mostly street and a little bit of track? Will the stock 04 s2k tires fit well with them?

 

Sorry. No. The rear offset is too low to use a wide tire. (A 235 on the rear would probably rub occasionally.) The front is OK up to about a 215, maybe a 225 with the occasional rub.

If you want to run more camber or pull your fenders, maybe.

 

I think you may be talking from your ass.

I have these rims on my car with 215/Front and 245/Rear running KW Coilovers and a 1" drop with ZERO rubbing.

 

how are the KW coilovers? worth every penny?

 

Look at my sig. No rubbing at all with a 1'' drop, 245's in the rear and stock camber settings.

 

Hmmm... so there!!!

 

Those wheels are so beautiful. I hate looking at them.

 

Yes, they are awesome. IMO the card rides much better than stock with the default KW settings.

 

Actually he is not entirely.

Spa-zz is a conservative owner and goes by the book. I represent the extreme or not by the book and I can tell you it will rub unless you adjust your camber with a more extreme drop. One inch is next to nothing.

With extreme drops that I have had a 245 tire would rub. I am talking 2.5-4.0 inch drop.

Both of you guys have baby drops which is almost stock and of course you wont have rubbing issues since you have 1-3 inches of travel clearance. At 2.5-4.0 you dont have that type of travel, even with normal camber. Now custom camber yes, these would fit, but 90% of the people on the boards just slap these on with coilovers and call it a day.

I will give you a quick example. I had a 17x8 +45 with a 245 rear tire with a 2.8 inch drop and it rubbed everyday of the week. It also depends on what tires you run. Some are thinner than others and some are fatter than others. The cheap ES100s rubbed when I just sat in the car at that drop . Now if this was 17x8.5 +42, thats even worse. Thats like running a 17x8 +30s offset wheel = rubbage. But with only a 1 inch drop I would be fine and no rubbage.

So bottom line is you wont rub with these wheels and 245 tire at a baby 1 inch drop.

However you will rub if you go 2.5 or more. So you are both right and both wrong. I say that because I would never drop my car just 1 inch or 1.5 inches . The car IMO still looks stock and in that case stock suspension would work just as good if not better.

 

sorry to jack your thread but..

i recenlty bought the same offset as alens2k

front: 17 x 7.5 50 offset
rear: 17 x 8.5 42 offset

is that the right set up for my car? offset wise?