Ride height with 18"

[Mr.HacKeR]

Hello guys,
I currently have 17" wheels, and I have Eibach's. I love the ride height and all, but now I want less tyre and more wheel.

I was thinking of getting 18 or 19" wheels, but I saw a couple of ACs with 18s and 19s, and the ride height (not wheel gap) seems to have increased with the increase in wheel size. Is that a bad choice of tyres? or does the ride height really become higher?

[mikethemike]

Ride heigh is the same for me. I even compared my 17'' to my 18'' with tires and its the same height.

[BRicci]

It all depends on what tire size you have now, and what you will go with. You can calculate to see how much higher or lower you will actually sit. (http://www.willtheyfit.com ie. "ride height gain")

[mmkeller]

I'm on 18" and when I get new tires going to go with wider and lower side wall to keep the diameter close to what it is now.

[lucky#sleven]

So with out wanting to start a new thread I wanted to ask a question pretaining to the eibach springs, I'm looking to go from the stock 3.5 sr rims at 235/45/18x8 et 44 to a 245/40/18x9.5 et 22. The rims would stick out 44mm than the stock the tires would have a stretch to them. The rears would probably be ok with the springs but will the fronts rub? If I have a shop by my house install they can roll the fenders for free. They're work is top notch. What do you guys think? The rims are miro 398 te 37 reps.

[lucky#sleven]

44mm is only an inch and a half. to be helpful to this thread in my case going one series smaller in height but a series wider, only drops my overall diameter 2 %. Well within the recomended 3%.

[nismogxs21]

you're tires is what makes the big difference.. i currently have 19z and even when i changed the width of my tires the height would raise slightly...

[rosuhere]

when i go +1 or +2, i try to keep the overall diameter [o.d.] of the tire as close to stock as possible...

this time around, my stockers on my 2.5s is 17x7.5 +45 wrapped in 215/55/17 and i will be replacing them with a set of 18x7.5 +42 enkeis wrapped in 225/45/18...

[Mr.HacKeR]

Thanks guys!
So to sum things up, all I have to do is make sure that the OD is as close to stock as possible when choosing the tyre, correct?