18" question about tires

elstopneon · Post by **elstopneon** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:50 pm

Can I go with a bigger tire than the 215/35/r18?? .. My car suspension is still stock.

Passt · Post by **Passt** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:34 pm

225 is the max.

superdan · Post by **superdan** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:00 pm

35's? holy shit those are going to be rubberbands lol

elstopneon · Post by **elstopneon** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:48 pm

lol... I have 35's on there now and they just go just like that.. But thanks for the info

darthroush · Post by **darthroush** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:17 am

35 series aren't bad. 18" tires are damn pricey though. I'm glad I dropped to 17" wheels.

Danteneon · Post by **Danteneon** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:33 am

I'm running 225/40/18 on my car now. 35 offset wheel with coil-overs. I have a lot of room on the inside still.

wiggyx · Post by **wiggyx** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:21 am

elstopneon wrote:Can I go with a bigger tire than the 215/35/r18?? .. My car suspension is still stock.

Danteneon wrote:I'm running 225/40/18 on my car now. 35 offset wheel with coil-overs. I have a lot of room on the inside still.

Dylan-00Blue · Post by **Dylan-00Blue** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:31 am

im runnin 225 40 18 also

Danteneon · Post by **Danteneon** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:47 am

wiggyx wrote:
elstopneon wrote:Can I go with a bigger tire than the 215/35/r18?? .. My car suspension is still stock.

Danteneon wrote:I'm running 225/40/18 on my car now. 35 offset wheel with coil-overs. I have a lot of room on the inside still.

Exactlly. That was my way of sugesting coil-overs as an upgrade

elstopneon · Post by **elstopneon** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:59 pm

Ok one more question will 225/35 r17 be better?

Danteneon · Post by **Danteneon** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:42 pm

What wheels are you running (width)?

elstopneon · Post by **elstopneon** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:17 pm

Right now im running these right here...
can I go with a bigger tire without rubbing?

http://www.lakeshorewheelandtire.com/cu ... lack.shtml

Danteneon · Post by **Danteneon** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:42 pm

The biggest problem you will have is rubbing the strut perch. The tires you have now are 23.9" tall. Stock SRT is 25.1". The biggest tire you can run on SRT wheels and still clear the strut perch is 205/40/17 which is 23.5"

So the trick here is to have a tire no taller than what you are running now. A 235/35/18 would be 25.5" tall. You are limited to what size you can run by your struts at this point.

Once you go to either SRT struts or coil-overs, then you may have additional problems with a taller tire and clearance issuses when turning due to that 40 offset, but if you keep it around stock SRT height you may be OK.

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