Wheels - Tires & Suspension Blues
Wheels - Tires & Suspension Blues
I guess I'm just venting, but it seems like all the mod's I do on my SRT6 something just ain't right.
1 - Eibach springs, lowered the front too much and didn't lower the back enough. When test fitting my new wheels I found I have some tire rubbing issues with the OEM's, so I'm going to have to raise the front back up some.
2 - Ordered new 285/35/19's, ($860) for the back to get a wider look & fill up the difference of the front & rear fender well gap and they really don't look any wider than the 255's did on the car, but I do get better traction.
3 - Ordered new chrome wheels, 18's for the front & 19's for the back planning on using the front 225/40/18 OEM tire's. From checking tire site's a 225/40 would work fine on an 8.5 wheel, but I had a friend that just put his 225/40's on his new 8.5 wheels and they look like crap. So now I'm trying to get a pair of 245/35/18's for the front, ($652) and told up to 3 weeks to get them.
4 - The new wheels came in last week and one of them was damaged during shipping, so I'm still waiting on the wheel place to get that straightened out.
5 - When test fitting the new wheels on front, I found I was going to have to get a pair of 10mm spacers to get the center cap to go on the wheels. So I ordered all my lug bolts and spacers from Ezaccessories.com. they arrived yesterday. When I opened the box it had two boxes inside, one with lug bolts & one with spacers and no packing at all. Both boxes were busted open, the bolts are all scuffed up and some scratches and so were the spacers.
1 - Eibach springs, lowered the front too much and didn't lower the back enough. When test fitting my new wheels I found I have some tire rubbing issues with the OEM's, so I'm going to have to raise the front back up some.
2 - Ordered new 285/35/19's, ($860) for the back to get a wider look & fill up the difference of the front & rear fender well gap and they really don't look any wider than the 255's did on the car, but I do get better traction.
3 - Ordered new chrome wheels, 18's for the front & 19's for the back planning on using the front 225/40/18 OEM tire's. From checking tire site's a 225/40 would work fine on an 8.5 wheel, but I had a friend that just put his 225/40's on his new 8.5 wheels and they look like crap. So now I'm trying to get a pair of 245/35/18's for the front, ($652) and told up to 3 weeks to get them.
4 - The new wheels came in last week and one of them was damaged during shipping, so I'm still waiting on the wheel place to get that straightened out.
5 - When test fitting the new wheels on front, I found I was going to have to get a pair of 10mm spacers to get the center cap to go on the wheels. So I ordered all my lug bolts and spacers from Ezaccessories.com. they arrived yesterday. When I opened the box it had two boxes inside, one with lug bolts & one with spacers and no packing at all. Both boxes were busted open, the bolts are all scuffed up and some scratches and so were the spacers.
Re: Wheels - Tires & Suspension Blues
Originally Posted by ShawnQ
Bummer on the wheel rash...what wheel is it?
Seems to me like it is a run of bad luck more so than the car's fault.
Once it is all done, it will be well worth it!
SQ
Seems to me like it is a run of bad luck more so than the car's fault.
Once it is all done, it will be well worth it!
SQ
Last edited by Steve Hellums; 08-16-2007 at 02:43 PM.
Re: Wheels - Tires & Suspension Blues
Hi Steve:
Do you have any photos of your car before and after the Eibachs (without changing the wheels)? I'm still trying to figure out if I want to do the Eibachs, and I'm interested to see how the car looks pre and post Eibachs without cutting them down.
Thanks.
Do you have any photos of your car before and after the Eibachs (without changing the wheels)? I'm still trying to figure out if I want to do the Eibachs, and I'm interested to see how the car looks pre and post Eibachs without cutting them down.
Thanks.
Last edited by eganders; 08-21-2007 at 12:35 AM.
Re: Wheels - Tires & Suspension Blues
Originally Posted by eganders
Hi Steve:
Do you have any photos of your car before and after the Eibachs (without changing the wheels)? I'm still trying to figure out if I want to do the Eibachs, and I'm interested to see how the car looks pre and post Eibachs without cutting them down.
Thanks
Do you have any photos of your car before and after the Eibachs (without changing the wheels)? I'm still trying to figure out if I want to do the Eibachs, and I'm interested to see how the car looks pre and post Eibachs without cutting them down.
Thanks
Re: Wheels - Tires & Suspension Blues
Well I should have my replacement wheel for the one that was damaged in shipping sitting at home when I get there. I called the tire shop and my new 245/35/18 PS2's are in, so if the new wheel has not been damaged during shipping I'll be taking a butt load of wheels and tire's over in the back of my truck tomorrow to the tire shop to spend some more money.
Re: Wheels - Tires & Suspension Blues
Originally Posted by Steve Hellums
Here's a few pic's, only one is with out the Eibach's. Well the pic's wouldn't load, it said because I have already loaded them. They are in a post named "New Springs On Their Way".
In those photo you mention that it has both the Eibachs and the new tires installed. What I'd like to see is photos with the Eibachs, but with the stock tires, since it drops slightly differently front and rear.
If the look is not too bad, I'll probably go with just the springs. If it looks bad, I'll have to figure out something else.
Thanks.
Re: Wheels - Tires & Suspension Blues
Originally Posted by eganders
Hi Steve:
In those photo you mention that it has both the Eibachs and the new tires installed. What I'd like to see is photos with the Eibachs, but with the stock tires, since it drops slightly differently front and rear.
If the look is not too bad, I'll probably go with just the springs. If it looks bad, I'll have to figure out something else.
Thanks.
In those photo you mention that it has both the Eibachs and the new tires installed. What I'd like to see is photos with the Eibachs, but with the stock tires, since it drops slightly differently front and rear.
If the look is not too bad, I'll probably go with just the springs. If it looks bad, I'll have to figure out something else.
Thanks.
Last edited by Steve Hellums; 08-27-2007 at 04:54 PM.
Re: Wheels - Tires & Suspension Blues
I'm trying to load some picture's of my new wheels and I keep getting a data base error. Anybody else having problems loading pic's today?
This is what I keep getting.
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This is what I keep getting.
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Re: Wheels - Tires & Suspension Blues
Originally Posted by RPM
I run into those problems w/pics on here too. I got tired of it and set up a flickr.com page.
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