I have an Integra sedan, and the stock wheel placement looks very bad to me. I don't notice the problem as much on coupes, but on sedans the rear wheels look too far recessed into the body of the car and look very... pedestrian. I'm not interested in low-rider stupid style rims, but I am thinking about using wheel spacers or buying wider wheels to bring the tires even with the body or maybe a tiny bit wider than the body.

Do wheel spacers adversely effect performance (i plan to regularly autocross) or do they actually help by widening the contact patches? And how large of spacers would I need to bring the rear wheels even with the body? 5mm? 15mm?

Thx,
Ben

 

too wide and you might not get the wheels to tuck into the fenders while autocrossing. How big are you thinking. My 40+ offset brings the wheels out a bit from the car but not too much to have any rubbing issues. +45 mm offset will put them closer to the middle of the car so maybe a +40 or a +38 would be what you are looking for.

 

I'm looking for just enough so I get the same effect that one has on cars like... a BMW M3 for example. Where the widest part of the car is not a fat *** car body, but instead some big fat tires. You know what I'm saying?

Ben

 

yeah definately... you could pick a hight offset wheel and then mabye use a spacer to give you more of a 'widetrack' or just find a lower offset like Volcom said +40 - +38

 

Right now I have the OEM LS Mesh Wheels and I am going to have to stick with those for a while... don't have $600 for 16s... so what size spacer could I run to achieve the desired effect? And spacers don't affect handling do they?

A current look at the car:

 

of course they affect handling, it will increase the car's rear track dimension. You would be better using spacers so that you can still rotate the tires front to back.

 

On a BMW they design the body and wheelwell to give the effect that the wheel sticks out a bit. It looks great but was pretty much designed that way. You can try, but might end up rubbing. I have a coupe so I don't know it this applies to me anyway but I think my rotas are close to the edge.

 

i think theres a limit on size of spacers you could get before you need to replace wheel studs (maybe 5mm). I'd suggest to get a wider rim and/or lower offset rim..

once you find a wheel, you could calculate on how much it will stick out:

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=364838 - my calculator - more details
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=364614 - my calculator - more details + link