Why the BIG DEAL about wheel gap?

[Braces]

It's not just about lowering the car. It's also about the wheels filling out the entire space. Larger diameter wheels and tires, spacers.

[krayzie]

Originally Posted by JD001

Golden ratio??

You could be right. Golden ratio == 1.618 and is used in the design of nature.

BRZ has a borderline porky body when viewed from certain angles that I can't see myself ever running the full body kit without going to 18" rims. I'm sticking with 17" rims and just the front lip as my car is only 15mm lowered. The black paint on the STI body kit helps a bit with the slight diet look.

The stock wheel gap and smaller wheels don't bother me as much as with most European cars in the looks dept.

[Overdrive]

From where I sit (the driver's seat) I think the car looks fine, so I have no intention of lowering it and potentially ruining its handling, the very thing that drew me to it.

Flip side, I won't deny some cars look nice when lowered without getting ridiculous. I just have no desire to affect the driveability of mine on a daily basis for someone else's approval or satisfaction. I bought a car that doesn't need to be lowered to improve its handling. I'm not unhappy with the stock height and wheel gap, and I get no anxiety over it when I'm behind the wheel, so I'm leaving it alone. I can already hear all my friends asking when I'm gonna lower it, though. The same friends who have to swerve for seams in the road and take interesting angles into driveway ramps so they don't scrape their everything and/or chew up their fenders and outer treads. I'm good.

[Gunman]

Originally Posted by JD001

Golden ratio?? I recall reading something about a certain ratio but don't remember what it was now...

http://www.creativebloq.com/design/d...ratio-12121546

[darthpnoy1984]

The stock setup on these cars is already awesome from the factory, I think slamming this car is a overkill maybe a small drop by like 10 to 20mm is sufficient.


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[why?]

If I could cut the bottom 3 or 4 inches off the car I would lower it. But I scrape on the smallest inclines even when I go as sideways as possible. I want another half inch or so of ride height just to cure that.

Originally Posted by JD001

I've never messed with springs/dampers but had to on my BRZ. The standard step-up just looks wrong and I have noted the same on number of new cars mx5 et al.. then there is the sunken wheels in the wheel wells thing that also looks wrong!

I love the sunken wheel look, I think it is awesome.

[hdbahn]

I like a full look in the well and always wondered why so many American cars had huge gaps while BMWs were so tight. It's always bothered me that pick-up trucks have so much vertical gap in excess of the suspension travel/ frame and axle height limitations. It's as if they have clearance for a six inch coating of mud and snow on the tires. On the other hand, I tolerate my narrower track so I can use my old Subaru stuff, and pity the cars that are so overstuffed that people are running stupid camber just to get under the fender (and lowered with the differential 2" from the ground)

[synchromesh]

It could be my generation's fault for why there are less and less lowered cars and having more and more trucks and SUVs.


In the last 10-15 years they built so many speed bumps where it is a grey area. Why?


Maybe because those involved couldn't handle it or there was so much snitching, bitching and complaining that it had to be done. Speed bumps aren't cheap. In some countries they build them on the highway and I don't blame them.


For me I admire lowered cars. The lower the better. In an emergency situation you need care, control and due process as variables no matter how much courage you have. Rather than driving over curbs or ruining supercars SPECTRE style.


How come nobody has hydraulics no more?

[Leonardo]

Hydraulics are alive and well. Join a lowrider club. I had two pumps in my new yorker. (Learned I should have got a chevy) Got clowned all the time! Haha!

Wheel gap? Slammed on 13's. I don't think so!!!

[krayzie]

Originally Posted by hdbahn

I like a full look in the well and always wondered why so many American cars had huge gaps while BMWs were so tight.

Probably because US crash testing for side impact has a cart that is set higher than the Euro counterpart, so they jack it up to get the 5 star rating.

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by why?

If I could cut the bottom 3 or 4 inches off the car I would lower it.

But if you cut the bottom 3 or 4 inches off, it would still look too high. So you would have to cut a few more inches off. And keep doing that, until you ended up with something like this:





And then you'd have to drive this when you had the kids along.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

But if you cut the bottom 3 or 4 inches off, it would still look too high. So you would have to cut a few more inches off. And keep doing that, until you ended up with something like this:





And then you'd have to drive this when you had the kids along.

Had one or two that ended up looking like that after I cut all the rust out!

[humfrz]

Zero wheel gap ...........


humfrz

[Leonardo]

That... ^ is weirdly beautiful... thanks!