BarracksSi
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- '17 Civic Sport Touring Hatch; '17 CR-V EX. Formerly '02 EP3.
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Hoping to revisit an idea I had a decade ago at EPHatch -- keep track of the outlying wheel and tire sizes that fit our cars. The basic OEM wheel and tire specs are well-documented, but some guys are pushing tire widths and wheel offsets to the far ends of what can fit under the car, and their setups are buried deep inside several other threads, making them difficult to find.
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What I'd like to know is...
Specs of car, tires, and wheels:
- Your car trim (maybe "Standard/Si/Type-R/", knowing that the main difference is the bigger brakes on the Si and CTR)
- Tire size (the usual, like 235/40-18)
- Wheel specs (diameter, width, and offset, because 235-width tires on negative-offset wheels are sure to have problems)
Anything special you had to do besides just bolting them onto the car:
- Any spacers used?
- Did you need to roll the fenders?
- Did you need to adjust camber?
- Does it safely clear the suspension and brakes?
- Are you running a staggered setup?
- Are you lowered? (understanding that full suspension travel is the SAME even at stock height)
- If you also got an aftermarket brake kit, what did you need to do to get wheels that fit? I know at least one of y'all has a Wilwood kit that won't fit with your OEM Si wheels.
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I would also like to hear about MINIMUM wheel diameters that you've been able to fit. For example, Tire Rack lists 15" wheels to use for our "Standard"-trim cars, and I've read about CTR owners fitting 18s for winter/daily use.
For example, here's my car as configured with its winter wheels today (not an outlier by any means):
- Sport Touring (standard brakes)
- 215/55-16
- 16" x 6.5" +42 offset
- everything else stock with no issues
- (if I had other mods, or needed to roll fenders and such, I'd list them here; leaving something unanswered is as good as saying "no")
If this thread gets rolling, I'll try to keep up and maintain this opening post with the maximum/minimum values, like "so-and-so tires can fit with such-and-such offset and no fender rolling" or whatever.
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What I'd like to know is...
Specs of car, tires, and wheels:
- Your car trim (maybe "Standard/Si/Type-R/", knowing that the main difference is the bigger brakes on the Si and CTR)
- Tire size (the usual, like 235/40-18)
- Wheel specs (diameter, width, and offset, because 235-width tires on negative-offset wheels are sure to have problems)
Anything special you had to do besides just bolting them onto the car:
- Any spacers used?
- Did you need to roll the fenders?
- Did you need to adjust camber?
- Does it safely clear the suspension and brakes?
- Are you running a staggered setup?
- Are you lowered? (understanding that full suspension travel is the SAME even at stock height)
- If you also got an aftermarket brake kit, what did you need to do to get wheels that fit? I know at least one of y'all has a Wilwood kit that won't fit with your OEM Si wheels.
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I would also like to hear about MINIMUM wheel diameters that you've been able to fit. For example, Tire Rack lists 15" wheels to use for our "Standard"-trim cars, and I've read about CTR owners fitting 18s for winter/daily use.
For example, here's my car as configured with its winter wheels today (not an outlier by any means):
- Sport Touring (standard brakes)
- 215/55-16
- 16" x 6.5" +42 offset
- everything else stock with no issues
- (if I had other mods, or needed to roll fenders and such, I'd list them here; leaving something unanswered is as good as saying "no")
If this thread gets rolling, I'll try to keep up and maintain this opening post with the maximum/minimum values, like "so-and-so tires can fit with such-and-such offset and no fender rolling" or whatever.
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