17x9.5 fitment on 1st gen

[ihavefat]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

Any issues rubbing the swaybar in the front at full lock?

I was worried about this which is why I was initially looking at 17x9s. But none so far. I do still have the stock front swaybar/endlinks if that matters.

If anything, I noticed there are two occasions where I seem to encounter rubbing:

1. if I am turning or cornering at slow or moderate speed during drastic elevation changes, it seems like the tire is rubbing against the inside fender liners.

2. if I load up the fronts to use weight transfer to rotate the car, the tire seems to rub against the actual fender. This sounds more like a plastic creaking noise if that makes sense lol.

I am assuming for #2, more camber will suffice. Not sure about #1 though. I'm gonna see how it is after I get the alignment and corner balancing done. Currently my thoughts are:

-3.5 front camber
0 toe

-2.25 rear camber
1/16" total toe in

And as for corner balancing, the shop will just adjust the height as necessary? Never done this before so I am not sure what to expect

Originally Posted by ZDan

OS Giken 1.5-way (with minimum breakaway/max negative preload) was just about the best thing I ever did with my old 6.8 liter LS3 FD. That diff was like magic, *never* overly locked up, *always* put all the power down. If I hated money a bit more I'd buy one right now for my '23...

This has been my observation so far on the street but I still haven't had the chance to take the car to any event after the diff was installed. I'm still in the break-in phase and have only driven 500-600 miles or so. Plan on changing out the fluid before the next event. I also love the fact that it's so quiet and can't tell I have an aftermarket diff. Very OEM+ quality

[Code Monkey]

If you are not tracking the car, I would not have it corner balanced, waste of money.

[ZDan]

Originally Posted by ihavefat

And as for corner balancing, the shop will just adjust the height as necessary? Never done this before so I am not sure what to expect

You might have them check corner weights. IMO if they're within say 30 lb. I wouldn't worry about it. My car was near dead-nuts on for cross-weights when coilovers were installed without any adjustment required to balance.

[ihavefat]

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

If you are not tracking the car, I would not have it corner balanced, waste of money.

why would you assume I wouldn't track the car

But yea..this is mostly a street car (averaging 4-5 track weekends a year) so this may be an overkill.

Originally Posted by ZDan

You might have them check corner weights. IMO if they're within say 30 lb. I wouldn't worry about it. My car was near dead-nuts on for cross-weights when coilovers were installed without any adjustment required to balance.

Oooh, good point. I wonder if the shop will let me just check without charging for a full on corner balance lol.

[ihavefat]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

Any issues rubbing the swaybar in the front at full lock?

A bit of a plot twist. It seems like my front wheels were super close to the front (I’m guessing a lot of positive caster?), which may have prevented the endlinks from hitting it even initially set height when I installed the coilovers. Had to take the endlinks off during the alignment and have shorter ones on the way. This is what it looks like currently:

https://imgur.com/a/k7aGqvG

Got some wheel gap currently but I have no rubbing whatsoever regardless of what I’m doing. Don’t really hate the look either lol

[APEX Race Parts]

Originally Posted by ihavefat

As an update, finally got them on! Alignment and corner balancing scheduled for next week.

Huge shoutout to amazing support from:

Matt @APEX Race Parts
Andrew and Myles @Racecomp Engineering

Sensational

- Matt

[jflogerzi]

Originally Posted by ihavefat

Thank you!

Haven’t pushed past 7/10 but at least in the recommended settings, it’s more comfortable and street compliant than stock ts suspension. Looking forward to post alignment/corner balancing and seeing how it performs. Also I haven’t really seen many reviews about these Continental Extreme Contact Force tires so I’m curious how the car will feel like at 9/10 - 10/10 especially with the osgiken 1.5 way and the ts wing. Not sure if it’ll push more under braking on decel or something similar

the tires will behave very similar to an RS4 with better street manners. Should be a very nice street/track tire. Just don't expect times like a 660, RE71rs or A052 levels of grip. BTW great car

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