now, call me crazy but i have been thinking about this and im slgihtly confused...

Correct me if i'm wrong, but a bigger diameter wheel will allow a car's chassis to be lowered MORE and still maintain the same ground clearence (the bigger wheel moves the spindle hieght up)

i'm right arent i? justthinking, cuz my ground clearence kinda sucks, and im afraid to lower my car due to the fact teh exhuast is gonna hit everywhere i go lol... BUT i'm thikning about going up to a 17 or 18" wheel...

Steve

 

I have 17's on mine with P275's.....my ground clearence looks exactly the same....

 

Usually if you get a bigger wheel you get a tire with a smaller sidewall...but if you get a bigger wheel with the same amount of sidewall it will put it up a little bit.

 

spindle does not move no matter what.... so in your theory i'd say your wrong. i'm running 4" exhaust with an 18" wheel and the correct sidewall size with no problems.

 

hmm - true, i did not think of sidewal size... i guess maybe a better way to figuer this out would be to go by tire diamter or circumferance......

anyways, thanx... just acting blond this morning lol...


reasonin mentioned the spindle being higher would be due to the larger rim size, ut i failed to think about tire sidewall.

 

spindle doesn't change or move though with larger rims. the larger rim is made up with a smaller profile sidewall to keep things proper.

 

Why raise it just to lower it though

 

umm it was called i thought i had a brilliant idea wayyyyy too early this mornin before my coffe lol