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Originally Posted by Spartarus
Thanks. I agree.
I understand that. Once you start moving them out, you're eating up that room though. It's like running a wider wheel. Yes, you have space on the inside, but you aren't using it. You're chewing up your outside clearance.
I searched every section of the forum for the information I'm looking for. Including google. I found nothing.
I appreciate the info about having lots of space to play with, even lowered, but I could measure static clearance in a driveway... I care if something rubs under compression. I would like to retain full suspension travel, because I use all of the suspension travel. Otherwise it's not worth doing the mods.
Also, If we determine you can space it out 20mm, that means you can run a 20mm wider wheel, and change the offset to compensate, because we know the inside edge is safe, due to the location of the stock wheel. Kill 2 measurement birds with one stone.
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There is absolutely no cut and dry formula for rubbing. There are too many variables. You cannot just say lower X amount, have spring rate at X, dampers set at X, and you will not rub. Hell, a missing push/pop rivet on a fender liner with wind flapping around could make you "rub". I don't believe you're being realistic in that sense. It's trial and error on your car alone. Choose the suspension you want, then go tinker. There are a ton of fitment threads you can look at for how something looks/fits and most even post their alignment specs.
People run stock all the way to 10" wide on stock fenders on all 4 corners. Even the aggressive wheel set up guys run 10.5 or larger. There's no "flow chart" of sorts for you to follow when it comes to choosing a subjective wheel fitment.