I fit the wheels today on the '09. Unfortunately, the fronts did not fit over the Akebono calipers. Hopefully, I'll have the faces redone by IForged. I'm also concerned that the rear offset is too aggressive. The pictures are of the suspension at full droop, but I think they'll tuck. Anyone have a similar experience at the rear?

 

What offset is that?? That is WAY out there

Love the wheels tho!

 

I guarantee you that once the tires are mounted and when your car is sitting on the ground, your wheels will be tucked in at least another inch.. so don't freak out.. should be fine once everything is in place and sitting on the ground.

Sweet rims BTW.

 

Welll played sir, well played...

Waiting for the next round of pics...

 

they look great but kinda small... 18s? or 19s?

 

Believe it or not, they're 20's. It just looks really messed up with the suspension at full droop and no tire.

 

you'll be fine just be add a little Neg. camber maybe 2-3 degress and you'll be fine.......

 

looks good you will be fine

 

i'm sure they will tuck with some tires and a drop
BLUSLATE has the most aggressive offsets i've seen
ask him and see whats up

 

theres something wrong with this picture but i cant put my finger on it...

 

2-3 is not "a little" negative. Still, I don't think there will be any problems w/ the rims/tires tucking under the qtr panel w/ maybe about 1 - 1.5 degrees of negative camber.

It looks like it sticks WAY outside of the wheel well right now b/c it's drooping down, which makes the top part of the rim bow outwards (way positive camber) even more than if the car was sitting on the ground.

So, the rim is sitting like this: \ / whereas if you were at zero degrees camber, your rims would be like this: | | and once you lower the car, you'd be at negative camber with your rims like this / \ which would make them tuck under the fender.

The best way to test is to put some thick phone books on the ground and lower the rim onto the phone books to compress the suspension. This will give you an idea of how the rim sits in relation to the top of the wheel well.

 

Good idea. I was trying to figure out a way to compress the suspension to see how it acts. Should I put the phone books in between or at least try to position them where the beads sit on the rim? Alternatively, I was gonna pull the rear spring to see if I could compress, but the shock is likely charged.

 

Love the rims, can't wait to see the next round either.

 

Position the phone books to protect the rim. Get a few of them. Say you got the left rear of the car jacked up exactly as you have it now. Stack a few thick phone books on the floor. Then slowly lower the left rear of the car so that the rim is lowered onto the phone books. Keep lowering that corner of the car and the suspension will continue to compress.

If you decide to remove the spring, the shock will not shoot out or anything. The spring stores most of the kinetic energy. Remember that shocks damp both on the compression as well as the rebound stroke. So, unlike springs, they don't shoot out w/ any significant force.

 

too aggressive. some people on the site would just camber the hell out of it but its not a widebody 240 so no.