That's exactly right. For example, 16 inch rims will use 50 height tires, whereas 17 inch rims use 45. The overall tire size should be 25.7" (whether you go bigger wheel/smaller tire or vice versa). This way it won't affect overall car height or speedometer reading.

 

2" intrax springs

 

yeah it does the larger the rim means theres a larger radius from the ground to the center of the spindle thus making it higher, tires do the same thing

 

Haha thanks man im really in the market for some i just dnt know which ones to go with. Any suggestions guys?

 

Not sure the details as the car came with the Eibach lowering springs but it sits pretty nice. I like it

 

got a new pic:

 

Wrong again quiz kid. Tires determine the outside diameter of the wheel tire combo. You can have a 14" and 20" wheel/tire combo end up with the same outside diameter with the proper tire choice.

 

Something is not right here. That looks like OEM ride height. No way thats 2" lower.

 

definitely not on intrax's..

 

Exactly. It's not the wheel that affects this, it's the overall diameter of the outermost part of the tire. If a 16" wheel has a height of 50", then an 18" wheel must have 35 to have the same overall diameter of the outermost part of the tire, otherwise say if you had 50 height tire with an 18 inch rim then the overall diameter of the rim+tire (measuring from the outermost part of the tire) would be much greater than a 16" rim with 50 height tire.

 

the last part is what i was getting at, i do know they can equal one another, but how many people use a tire for an 18 equivalent to what should be on a 16

 

Darn near everyone. LOL.

 

I guess my car finally qualifies to have a picture in this thread

Pro-Kit springs, they claim a 1 inch lowering but I swear it dropped mine more like 2 inches. I didn't think to measure before doing it though.

 

steven, that thing leveled out and dropped nicely

 

Weird because here are the springs in the car pics taken before I POR15ed the car. They are intrax 17-003 which I believe are 2 inch

 

Did you not index the springs? How did you tighten the sway bar end links, with the suspension loaded or unloaded?

 

Not sure they were done by a shop before I bought the car. I can tell you it is a lot lower than my friends 86 with stock springs. Might just be the pic angle but it looks lower in person than the red camaro in this thread.

 

take another pic, unless your ridin air shocks that thing is still sittin up way too high

 

When I pull it out of storage I will.

 

The rear is pretty low, the front is what is too high. May just not be indexed properly... who knows.

 

Just installed GC weight jacks and new springs. This is all the way dropped- waiting for the springs to settle a bit more then decide on a final streetable height.

~Steven

 

Here is the whole stance. Probably could get the rears down farther by pulling the isolators and going with heater hose instead.

 

Looking good! that's how low I run my car too. To me it's perfectly streetable. You'll never scrape if you know how to adjust your driving style.

 

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is there a way to delete posts? i'm so garbage at this forum thing. all I can do is"edit" a previous post to nothing (what i almost did here)

 

Agreed! Thats exactly where the wheels should be IMO too. I'm also interested in drop, as well as rim size and the entire wheel diameter. alot of people drop their cars 2 inches, but then put 20" rims on and end up back at square one.

Anyways, Lee's got some people waiting for his specs (btw, sick pics too, really well done)

 

 

Finally got mine cleaned up with some good pics for this thread. I put in Hotchkis Lowing Springs all the way around with isolators. Properly indexed with swaybar end links tightened on a loaded suspension. I'm also running Koni Yellow Shocks and Struts, 18" BMW rims, and 245/40/18" front, 275/40/18" rear tires. It turned out to be exactly the stance I was looking for.






-cal30sniper

 

Those wheels and tire combo are going to make your speedo read off. The tire is taller than it should be with an 18" rim (it should be 35 height). I actually find it looks good like this because there is more tire (not as stiff) and it fills the wheel well nicely. A new speedo gear is all that is necessary probably to recalibrate the speedo if you have 700r4.

 

 

Hey man, paint the centers of those rims gold and you will be my hero

 

WOW specs on the wheel an tire combo please....

 

What springs are you running in that? looks sweet!

 

8.5x19 ET15 265/30/19
9.5x19 ET15 295/30/19

 

An update on this that i happened to come across today so i got some current pics and looks much better!

 

beautiful. go lower

also, i think a 5" hawks spoiler would set that thing off

 

iv always wondered how a sport coupe would look lowered, and painted one solid color (no striping or lower accent) and that looks pretty badass. from yours the only changes i would make to make it personal to myself would be using berlinetta marker lights, and using a differant hood. but its all in taste,

 

here's one of my favorites...different angle....

 

Here is mine stock iroc springs with 1 coil front and 1 coil rear trimmed,,,the body rake is kinda growing on me,,,guess maybe I could go one more coil in the rear,,,opinions?

 

^ you could use 4th gen spring isolators (about half as thick as 3rdgens) or iv seen guys on here run no spring isolators and use a piece of heater hose wrapped around the top coil.

 

that is a nice stance!! what springs are you using?

 

I took one more coil out of the rears today,,,looks a ton better,,,probably leave it like it is,,,didn't know about the 4th gen isolators being thinner,,,thanks for the tip man,,,btw how the hell are you guys posting pics so big on here?

 

those color matched t-tops look pretty bad ***,,,had to take a second look to make sure I wasn't seeing things,,,sweet car!

 

sportlines

 

I don't really know why I find this car so amazing, but it is one of my favorite cars on this website. I absolutely love it.

 

my lil old beater 88 LOL

 

Sportline coils.

 

Call me crazy, but those tires look like they're mounted backwards, against the direction of the tread.

 

they are bi derectional

 

My car on 2" dropzone springs sitting on 5th gen 20's. Enjoy.