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Originally Posted by EdgeCrusher
Para, I would be curious to hear what your exhaust is like now with the down pipe change....
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I will try to take some videos. It's pretty much perfect in my opinion. Because of the secondary cats there is zero rasp and zero drone, but it's louder when you get on it with some nice gurgles. When I downshift thanks to the revmatching from the B3 flash it sounds really nice. It's the perfect mix of aggressive and civil.
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Very nice man, I am curious do you have any rubbing inside the fenders?
And a second question, since you did so much homework, what is the max rim width you can go with by keeping the original setting without using any spacers?
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With a 35mm offset you will need at least a 10mm spacer to clear the strut. Which basically means it was stupid of me to get the 35mm offset instead of 20mm.
At first I thought I didn't have any rubbing, but with these tires there is slight rubbing ONLY at full lock in the middle of the fender liners. After a day or so they don't rub anymore. I did remove one bolt from the oil cooler grill because I was paranoid it might touch when the front end was under load.
You can go basically as wide as you want with appropriate offsets if your car is not lowered, because the fenders are above the wheels. For the back you could probably easily fit 295 or even 305 rubber there if your car is stock height, less if it's lowered. For the front, the only issue you will have is rubbing at full lock in the middle of the fender liners.
The thing is, the rubbing is caused because my tire diameter is slightly bigger than stock. 265/35/19 is a taller tire than the stock 225/40/19. If I could do it over, I think I would do 9.5 square setup ET20 with 275/30/19. This would be 2.3% smaller than stock diameter, which would almost definitely not rub.