My car is lowered on springs (for now). I will get some ADJ coilovers in the summer.

I am NOT sure how much of a drop it has, as I bought it this way. I am cleaning it up from how it was before.

I have coming 17x8 +45 FRONT Rpf1s and 17x9 +45 Rears.

Will this thing rub from the get go or anything from the looks of it? I would hate to buy these and Immediately need to buy coilovers so I can raise it so I can use them right off the bat, my money tree isnt flourishing this time of the year!








Let me know your opinion! Thanks!



Here is bonus pic incase you are curious what interior I have:

 

Yea it will rub. You'll have to crush the rear fender lips, possibly relocate the bumper tab, and slice the front fender liner as well as cut off the front liner tabs to be safe. Obviously, adding neg. camber is necessary.

Tire sizing is also important.

Remember that springs are usually soft...so you're going to have more wheel travel. Those look like skunk2 springs. I had to do all of the above with my old skunk2 spring setup. I had 17x7.5+45 and 17x9+45 with 225/45 and 245/40.

I now run 265/40 with coilovers.

 

I am new here of these cars, what is the bumper tab you are speaking of?

 

Do you have any pics of how ur S2k sits on ur set up?

 

Wade that's a Klean S2k.

 

On the skunk2 setup with 225/45 and 245/40 on 17x7.5 and 17x9 +45 all around.



At this point the bumper tab is still in the original location. Rear fender lips crushed. Front fender liner sliced. Front fender liner tabs removed. Springs are soft. So watch when ascending curbs and steep driveways.

When I went to 255s out back, I had to relocate the fender tab as it was digging into the tires.

Now it's on the same wheels, but has KW V3 coilovers, and 265/40 in the rear. Direzza sports also run wide...so they're more like 275s in the rear.

I raised up the car up front and lowered the rear. The rear and front are evenly lowered now. It's not raked forward like crazy like the skunk2s had it.

I think this is before my alignment.



After the alignment, the tires were more tucked in, IDK if these show that off well enough:




As you can see, there's VERY little scraping in the rear even on large bumps or hard turns as illustrated by the rear tire here. It JUST clears the fender. Close enough that if I use rubber undercoating on the folded fender lips, the rubber undercoat gets scraped a little. So it's literally like a millimeter away from the fender.



But those are meaty *** 265s. Completely filled out wheel wells. Had to grind a tiny bit more off the bumper tab in the rear. I run around -3.3 degrees of camber and the "straight" end of AP2 toe specs. No problems.

 

Clean car OP.

 

I have the same setup right now:

17x8 +45 with 225/45/17
17x9 +45 with 255/40/17

Im dropped pretty low but not excessive and I get some rub on the front sometimes during full steering locks. The fenders are also cutting into the tires, but its not too bad.

BTW the car has slight fender work on front and back.

By slight I mean the front fender liner is cut and the rear is rolled. Also has some negative camber to help as well.

 

^You probably want to cut off the front fender liner tab. The tires may get chewed up by it...which is a minor issue. The major issue happens when the tire catches the tab and yanks it outward. It takes that part of your fender with it and turns that part of the fender inside out. I had that happen once at the track and once on a driveway (on a BRAND new fender, mind you. It was like 2 days old). The same happened to my friend on track. Mutilated fenders club.