So I want to lower my car.

[gnorie89]

Sorry if this is a repeat, i have searched through the fourms, but I am still a little confused.

What type of lowering kit would be best for me. I have 20 x 8 in rims,

I see that there are 2 kits available so far, any thoughts? ideas? think i might rub on the wheele well? Please let me know. Thanks.

[coderedk]

id say 99% of the a/c's here that are dropped went with the eibach pro kit. that should look real good with your 20's

[Bmore-coupe]

Eibachs

[Andy_G]

I have H&R and I like them. Either one will look good on your AC though.

[Bmore-coupe]

I have H&R and I like them. Either one will look good on your AC though.

Post pics please. I have never even seen the H&R kit installed

[dangeris]

Depending on the offset of your wheels, I'll say Eibach would be your best choice! I'm assuming that you're running +35 for an offset...?

[gnorie89]

Hey man, to be honest, i just threw those rims on the car, i really dont know much about modifications, can u please tell me what u mean by +35offset? Thanks

[6SpdAltima_Coupe]

im thinkin bout gettin eibachs too..basically every coupe on this forum has them and loves them..and hey im also from tampa!

[rjdmmfl1]

Hey man, to be honest, i just threw those rims on the car, i really dont know much about modifications, can u please tell me what u mean by +35offset? Thanks

IJDK how folks buy rims and don't know anything about what they are putting on their cars...

[gnorie89]

hey man its my first car, and im gettin lots ofwork done to it. my bad for not knowing something, i take you do.

I got some rims i liked and put them on, aint really that much to it. The rims were recomended to me, and i guess that guy knew what he was talking about.

Care to offer any positive advice?

[rjdmmfl1]

hey man its my first car, and im gettin lots ofwork done to it. my bad for not knowing something, i take you do.

I got some rims i liked and put them on, aint really that much to it. The rims were recomended to me, and i guess that guy knew what he was talking about.

Care to offer any positive advice?

Just putting rims on a car without knowing everything about them is just all aroud a bad idea. I'm not downing you for not knowing the information, I'm diwning you for not finding the information out B4 you put them onto your car. Wheel width, offset and size combined with tire width, profile and size are all important things to learn about before making an investment in wheel upgrades.

A definition of offset can be found here somewhere, but for a brief version...

basicly, offset deals with where the wheel hub sits in relation to the center point of your wheel. In other words, it deals with how far your wheels stick out or tuck in under your fender. The more positive the offset, the more it will tuck in, the lower the offset, the further it will appear to stick out.

Your car has a factory wheel size of 7.5" with a +45 offset. using that as a starting point, if you want you wheels to stick out futher, or appear to be more "flush" with your fender, you would go with lower and lower offsets (like +40, +35,or even +30)

On our cars, a 8.5" wheel with 245mm wide tires and a +35 offset will sit relatively flush with the fender when viewed from the side. Even with a drop, due to the negative camber of our wheels, they will tuck in under the fender rather than actualy rub up against the fender, at least in the case of the above scenario.

In any case, I wont regurgitate all of the extremely useful information on this site, but with your 20 x8" wheels, if you're running 245mm wide tires (most likely 35 profle) and you add the Eibachs to your car, they will not rub against the fender. They will tuck in just fine (given that you aren't running something crazy like +15 offset wheels, which I doubt you are)

Other issues become impoartnt also , specifically the issue of back spacing. Again, hopefully from the brief description I have given you, you see why its important to know everything about a wheel B4 your make the purchase. If you bought a wheel with too low of an offset, there would have been no easy fix to get them to tuck under your fenders if you lowered your car, you would have had to roll your fenders.

Some folks ask how to get their wheels to tuck in more after they've bought +20 wheels.. and the answer to that is "buy wheels that fit" ... or some other folks want their wheels to look flush after buying +45 wheels, and are stuck trying to get +10mm, +15mm or 1/2" spacers just to do the job that buying wheels with the appropriate offset would have accomplished in the first place. (Spacers are not good as they add too much extra weight on the lugs_

Hope some of this helps, but my suggestion to you would be to thoroughly investigate and research your next modification before you do it. An extra 10 minutes of research could save you hundreds of dollars in the long run if you get the job right the first time rather than having to redo something!

[mcheddadi]

Just putting rims on a car without knowing everything about them is just all aroud a bad idea. I'm not downing you for not knowing the information, I'm diwning you for not finding the information out B4 you put them onto your car. Wheel width, offset and size combined with tire width, profile and size are all important things to learn about before making an investment in wheel upgrades.

A definition of offset can be found here somewhere, but for a brief version...

basicly, offset deals with where the wheel hub sits in relation to the center point of your wheel. In other words, it deals with how far your wheels stick out or tuck in under your fender. The more positive the offset, the more it will tuck in, the lower the offset, the further it will appear to stick out.

Your car has a factory wheel size of 7.5" with a +45 offset. using that as a starting point, if you want you wheels to stick out futher, or appear to be more "flush" with your fender, you would go with lower and lower offsets (like +40, +35,or even +30)

On our cars, a 8.5" wheel with 245mm wide tires and a +35 offset will sit relatively flush with the fender when viewed from the side. Even with a drop, due to the negative camber of our wheels, they will tuck in under the fender rather than actualy rub up against the fender, at least in the case of the above scenario.

In any case, I wont regurgitate all of the extremely useful information on this site, but with your 20 x8" wheels, if you're running 245mm wide tires (most likely 35 profle) and you add the Eibachs to your car, they will not rub against the fender. They will tuck in just fine (given that you aren't running something crazy like +15 offset wheels, which I doubt you are)

Other issues become impoartnt also , specifically the issue of back spacing. Again, hopefully from the brief description I have given you, you see why its important to know everything about a wheel B4 your make the purchase. If you bought a wheel with too low of an offset, there would have been no easy fix to get them to tuck under your fenders if you lowered your car, you would have had to roll your fenders.

Some folks ask how to get their wheels to tuck in more after they've bought +20 wheels.. and the answer to that is "buy wheels that fit" ... or some other folks want their wheels to look flush after buying +45 wheels, and are stuck trying to get +10mm, +15mm or 1/2" spacers just to do the job that buying wheels with the appropriate offset would have accomplished in the first place. (Spacers are not good as they add too much extra weight on the lugs_

Hope some of this helps, but my suggestion to you would be to thoroughly investigate and research your next modification before you do it. An extra 10 minutes of research could save you hundreds of dollars in the long run if you get the job right the first time rather than having to redo something!

how much we both have learned on that subject, eh rob?