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Old Oct 17, 2007 | 05:53 PM
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do i need to pound out the wheel wells to avoid rubbing on a stock fbody?
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Old Oct 17, 2007 | 06:00 PM
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Stock ride height, maybe not. You won't know for sure until you put the wheel/tire on there. Seems like everybody is a little different. Post pictures when they are on
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Old Oct 17, 2007 | 07:28 PM
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Whats the offset?
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Old Oct 17, 2007 | 08:18 PM
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Offset: +50 mm(17x11) straight from the site
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Old Oct 17, 2007 | 09:40 PM
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Depends on what size and brand of tires you have. On my car I did have to do some BFH. I have goodyear GSD3s 315/35 which run wide compared to some others.
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Old Oct 17, 2007 | 09:44 PM
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I ran those wheels on my SS with 315's and didn't have to do anything at all with stock height. But then again, I ran **** tires (Sumitomo). But like ^ said, something like the GS-D3's that read 315 but really measure something like 335...You're gonna need to do some bangin'.
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Old Oct 17, 2007 | 11:49 PM
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what size/brand of tire are you going to run?
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Old Oct 18, 2007 | 05:56 PM
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what size/brand of tire are you going to run?
a reasonably (as reasonable as it gets ) priced 315, no particular brand in mind tho
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Old Oct 18, 2007 | 06:01 PM
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I run 17x11s on stock ride height and have no problem. I run both 315 Nittos and 315 BFGs, which from what Ive heard are the widest 315 tire you can get, dont know if its true though. Havent had a problem yet....
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Old Oct 18, 2007 | 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by buddha845
a reasonably (as reasonable as it gets ) priced 315, no particular brand in mind tho
If you want resonable, go with the Nitto. Its not a true 315 so it should help with not hitting anything.... Not bad price either. I cant remember retail price because I get mine for cost, so....
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Old Oct 18, 2007 | 07:17 PM
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is it better for the strip to go with 11's in the rear or like a weld wheel with lots of meat, sorry im new to this
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Old Oct 18, 2007 | 07:50 PM
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I'm stock suspension with 17X11 TTII's with sumitomohomos. i would highly suggest getting an adjustable panhard bar for sure. it is definitely worth it. I didn't have to hit anything, but i did grind my bumpstops a tad.
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Old Oct 18, 2007 | 08:38 PM
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I ran goodyear GSD3s 315s on stock ride height and have no problem on my Zr1's 17X11.
Not sure what the offset is.
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thanks for the input
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Old Oct 19, 2007 | 12:18 AM
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I had some trouble a while ago fitting my C6 wheels on the back... and mine are only 18x9.5 !!!!!
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Old Oct 19, 2007 | 09:07 AM
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I AM ON MY SEC SET OF 17x11 IF YOU LIVE AROUND POTHOLES I WOULD SUGGEST THAT YOU ROLL THE FENDER LIP
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Old Oct 19, 2007 | 09:45 AM
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I had no problems with my nitto 555rs 135/35/17
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Old Oct 19, 2007 | 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by 1BDTRAM
I had no problems with my nitto 555rs 315/35/17
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Old Oct 19, 2007 | 04:26 PM
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I run 17x11 ZR1's with a +50mm offset wrapped in 315/35-17 GS-D3's.

I am at stock ride height and I had to BFH my fender wells. It not hard though. After you are done just spray some rubberized undercoating in the wheel wells and you wont even be able to tell they were beaten.

Good luck.
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Old Oct 21, 2007 | 11:32 PM
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I just put on 17x11 TTII's with 315 nitto 555r tires....no rubbing issues at stock height, i'd say i have about a 1/2" of space between the tire and inner fender well. I'm very happy with the nitto's...good looking tread design, nice ride and no noise from what i can tell so far. I got 4 tires from ws6store for like ~$730 shipped (2-315 555r's and 2-275 nitto 555r II for the front).
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