Are there any issues with pushing your wheels far out. Say extending past the fender. I would assume that if your car was lowered and you went over large bumps your wheels would bang into the fender. Would this occur if your car wasn't lowered? Are there any other issues?

 

Thats why people like myslef roll the fenders so that the wheels dosnt hit the fender anymore.

 

Yea I know about rolling fenders but I ment if you wheels stuck out beyond the fender.

 

Doing this will require wheels with Negative offset and will put ALOT of stress on many suspension components. Back in the day mini truckers (like me) would run 15x8's in a "reverse" wheel, bascially meaning that there was very little backspacing. Needless to say even on a truck, the ball joints and axles took some horrific abuse!

 

Ok so there cold be some ball joint and axles problems that happen quicker. Would there be fender issues like i mentioned above. I assume it depends on the wheel size. Say 18's. No drop. I can't imagine this would slam into the fender.

 

If you run a 205/35-18, then I don't forsee any problems at stock height. YOu may even be able to run a 205/40-18 with no problems. Pushing the wheels that far will accelerate problem by aobut three-fold if I remember correctly. You can also run into problems with the upper strut mount bending and other parts bending. Just be safe and don't go too far, you'll be OK.

 

You can test this by jacking up the car, taking out the spring, reassembling without the spring, then just push or jack up the hub until it hits the bump stop. The wheel is bottomed out, so you can see how far the wheel is from the fender.

You could try to put a spring compressor on the spring without taking anything apart, but you might not get down to the bump stop. If you put a wheel on that sticks out past the fender without checking this, one good bump can slice your tires in half.

 

Good idea, the back would be the easiest also. As far as slicing the tire, yeah it will put a cut in it, but usually not more than a 32nd of an inch and rarely does it affect the tire at all, kinda like tire siping. Now if you run them into the wear bars like I do, then you may see a problem..hehe. Great suggestion on trying that out! Now get that spring out and take some pics of that bad boy layed out...hehe.

 

As the suspension compresses, your wheels will move up and forward. So you gotta watch out hitting the top of the rear fender and the lower front part (where the rear fender curves into the rear doors). Getting smaller diamter tires should help prevent this.