I've got something to keep u guys awake at night. When u get new wheels and take into consideration widths, offsets, and spacers- and knowing that the front and rear FACES of the wheels are meant to be in line with each other; what are we sacrificing when the faces don't line up with each other? All race cars (excluding dragsters) have the faces of the wheels in perfect line with each other and staggered rears will have the longer width going in towards the middle of the car, rather than out. When we screw with staggered widths and offsets and spacers (eg making the rears stick out farther hence making the front and rear faces not in line with each other) are we losing vital traction / balance / stability?

 

What are you talking about?

 

U really have no idea what I'm talking about ?

 

I lost you at wheel.

 

Haha, but do you mean the front and rear wheel should be lined up? Like if you could hold a level across them, it should be perfectly flat?

 

are you attempting to refer to the scrub radius?

 

The pic of the f1 car is an example. As u can see, The faces of the front and rear wheels are in perfect line with each other (not considering the front camber). This is correct.

SO, when we put big spacers and widths on our rears, making them stick out farther than the fronts, are we screwing with the balance of the car.

 

I think thegreatkwijibo has the best screen name. Him and jookyshank.

 

Wrong crowd.

 

those people also have 6* of camber and 225s on 11in wide wheels...

 

no.

 

lol im not talking about the slammed guys, They're irrelevant

 

I see what yer saying. I think that's why we measure offsets tho. I mean, I'm just eyballin it, but mine are pretty dang close to even, and I have staggered wheels. So close in fact that I would put money on it not making any difference.

Like if I actually went thru the trouble of making sure all 4 corners were completely squared, it would make a negligible (if any) difference when you're talking about the Gs relative low level of performance.

Don't get me wrong, for what it is, the G is great, but usually when you get to the level of F1 cars, they're just looking for ANYTHING to advance their performance even miniscule amounts, cuz they already did all the CAI and exhaust mods, so they're like, "now what?"

 

^a lot of the guys with "functional" setups are like that and on top of that besides noticing such a thing on race cars I have yet to read anything that really supports this idea.

 

ftw