What are good wheel setups? No Rubbing. Your experience.

What fits best, Weights & Sizes
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By jadeydrag0117
- Sun Nov 06, 2011 4:23 pm #280430 i think im gonna have 0 offset cause i have steelies, so if i dumped it 2" on 14's & got a wheel size 165/55/r14 u think id clear the fender?
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By TrailerTrash
- Sun Nov 06, 2011 5:09 pm #280440 I doubt it. how wide of wheels?
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By Ajax1989
- Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:07 pm #280449 Dude maybe u should learn more about rims the offset and width and all the other stuff before asking.. we are tryen to help, but you don't know what your talking about.. you want a 0 offset.. that means you would need to roll and run camber kits...

What you should do is just lower the car with the tires you have now... you will not rub.. but your tires will not be straight up and down but that's part of lowering your car.. if u don't want them to be cambered buy a cambe kit.. if you don't want to do that then don't lower your car...
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By TrailerTrash
- Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:56 pm #280467 yeah dude how the heck are you going to have zero offset regular 14" steelies :?
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By jadeydrag0117
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 4:10 am #280516 yeah your right i dont know much about it, anyways i read first i need a chamber kit to straighten it then i i heard i didnt then i after that im being told i need one
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By dbrooks
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 4:21 am #280517 Get a camber kit if you want your wheels straight up and down.

Negative camber will happen anytime you lower your car unless you have a camber kit.
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By jadeydrag0117
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 4:25 am #280519 definatley going to take everyones advise and get chambers.
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By jadeydrag0117
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 4:28 am #280521 after you setup the chamber kits and the coilovers, get it alighned, will the tires be safe??
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By TrailerTrash
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 5:08 am #280522 once the camber kits are properly adjusted and you get an alignment the tires will be fine. u can run visibly negative camber without much overwear on the tires as long as the toe isnt off
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By teal_dx
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 4:01 pm #280557
TrailerTrash wrote:once the camber kits are properly adjusted and you get an alignment the tires will be fine. u can run visibly negative camber without much overwear on the tires as long as the toe isnt off

Truth in bold. So many people, even tire shops, will tell you that negative camber causes inner tire wear. The amount of inner tire wear from negative camber is almost nothing compared to toe out. Toe out happens when you lower our cars because of the suspension geometry causes the front wheels to be pointing slightly away from each other. Toe out can destroy the insides of front tires in a week or less.
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By jadeydrag0117
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:10 pm #280582 wow i just learned a bunch of crap in two days :thumb:
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By Greasedmonkey
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:48 pm #280592 For wheels, OFFSET is everything no matter how wide or narrow the wheel itself is. Size doesnt effect how the wheel sits on the car, just how tall it is. The bigger the wheel, the shorter the sidewall of the tires have to be to keep the original diameter good so that the speedo isnt all whacked out.

Stock tires on most EG(EH) civics are 185/65R14 unless you have the 13" wheel and then should switch to 14s or 15s anyway. The only Civic that got any other size than that would be the Si Hatch, which got 185/60R14.

To keep the same(or close) overall diameter of the wheel/tire combo and go with a 15" wheel you would need a 195/50R15 tire, even though 205/50 is a popular choice.

Anything bigger than a 16" wheel on an EG(EH) is just too big IMO. I have a few sets of wheels for my car and only one rubs at all. Mainly because of the tires I have on it.
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