The Quest to fit 10 Inch Wide Rims on the front.!

[mb7050]

enkei rp03 but beware these wheels can´t stand real driving

[2fnloud]

enkei rp03 but beware these wheels can´t stand real driving

what do you mean? They break, bend?

[mb7050]

bend real easily

[2fnloud]

you've bent one?

[mb7050]

yap 2 both rears they can be fixed but they bend easily

[GTOJOE]

Wow lucky I didn't buy them. My current wheels cracked due to not handling the abuse I give them and I desperately wanted a set of RP03. Just bought some XXR that should be a stronger design.

[IPD]

Soooo IPD...where's your piccies!!!

you do realize i'm still in the f**king sandbox, right?

[MR2]

what the hell is the sandbox?

[IPD]

it's somewhere in the vicinity of this:

[MR2]

ok I played around with how far the strut will allow me to move it back...this is essentially adjust two places.

The idea is to pull the strut to plate inboard (Picture 1) to it's maximum adjustment, see how in the first picture I've still got around 1cm of adjustment before I need to get a custom plate? well to stuff around with it I pulled it further in (maximum adjustment) and ended up with around 5mm of additional clearance..
before I move on I'd also like to look at adjusting the plate to allow for more castor as well..seeing as there appears to be a fair amount of room on all sides of the spring.

before adjustment:

showing how you could modify the plate:

showing how much space there is around the spring even at maximum adjustment



to maintain your camber you then need to push the hub knuckle back out...this is what actually forces the lip of the Rim away from the shock/spring as opposed to just giving bucketloads of camber

before adjustment:

After Adjustment:

showing how you could egg it a little more (red is stock, yellow egging it a bit more)


SOO, the end result with toying around with all this is I now have ~36mm of clearance between the tyre/rim and the spring...funny as the 19x10+42's should only need an additional 26mm...so I could fit a +46 mm offset 19x10 rim...assuming the spokes cleared! which means that MY CAR WOULD BE LEGAL IN AUSTRALIA YAY!

now I just need to find someone willing to sell the XXR's in +46 offset as opposed to the +42 that's everywhere...I may end up settling for a +42 though, and just flairing the guards slighly (will stick out 12mm more than the current rims do.)