I'm sticking with the steel wheels myself, but look how neat small wheels with low profile tires can be. The tread pattern is, imo, pretty awesome.

These are summer performance tires. I can use these year round here.

Cost: about $100 per wheel mounted.

see the pictures at tread and butter

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next job is to lower this RS2. The shorter tires make it really look ---gappy---!

uck!

How low can I lower this car with these tires? Now it's a half inch lower than stock

Question for the experienced slammers. I'm getting lowering springs and may even chop those a bit. OR I may first chop down the stock springs


At what -front bumper/road clearance do you begin to get hassled by speed bumps and slopes?

 

moved

 

bump-- help, please:

question:
At what -front bumper-to-road clearance do you begin to get hassled by speed bumps and slopes scraping the underside of the bumper's leading edge?


that how little ground clearance can -you- get away with?

thanks for any ideas!

Reid

 

Cutting springs will most likely make the ride worse; just a precaution. The lowest springs for the xB are either the HKS SF5s or Tanabe DF210s. They both lower just over 2" in the front.

If you want to go really low, coilovers are the real answer. At least if you end up going too low, you could adjust the ride height up to a point where scraping is not an issue.

 

I need to learn a lot about coilovers and lowering springs in general. Is negative camber not an issue when lowering?

thanks to Kev and all who helped here.

This thread has done enough work. Lock it please and I'll go read and learn and maybe make a compilation thread here for all of the spring and coilover xB stuff
(screenshots, imageshacked)

 

please keep comments to one post

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