I'm wondering if anyone on this board has personal experience with the differences in handling with wheel offset on the CRX?

I'm debating on whether or not to change the wheel offset from stock, when I order my Volk 37's next week.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but stock wheels come as a 4x100mm, 14" rim with a +45mm offset on all four corners.

My current setup uncludes 4x100, 14" rims with a +40 offset on all four corners. 195/45/14 tires. It handles well, but I would like to tune further

Anyone know how difference in fr, and rr offset's would affect handling, and how much variance can be tolerated?

Thanks.

 

To put it simple (without going too much into detail):

The more you change the factory offset of the wheels the more it will affect the handling in ->BAD<- way because the "Dave-point" will be altered (mostly less negative) and causes severe reactions when a tire blows or a part of the brake system fails. Also the car will track more (bad straight-out), this will especially occur on civics/crx's combined with big rims and wide tires. Our suspension (any suspension!) is designed to work in within certain geometric parameters, changing the most important (rims and tires) will give poorer handling and sometimes is just plain stupid (7,5x16 offset 35 rims with 225 tires )

Rule no.1: rims with offset +40-45
Rule no.2: rims no wider than 7"

Commonly heared: "Lower offset= wider track = better handling" This is BS!

 

Awesome, that's just the kind of info I'm looking for, thanks a lot.

This is cross-posted in the tech forum I was just wondering what CRX owners in particular knew about CRX's... Hence why I posted it here too.

 

this does apply to RWD cars
stan