Spacers 30mm and 25mm

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KyleR
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I'm looking at getting 25mm ichiba v2 spacers in the front, and 30mm in the back. Currently, I am running the stock 2006 wheels and plan to drop the car about 1'' in the future on coilovers (finally made the decision over springs). My question to you is do you think 30mm in the rear would be too much if I end up dropping it an inch? I don't want the wheels to poke out so much that the car rubs at 1''. I have seen a few Z's with 30mm in the rear and it looks like if they lowered it more than an inch, they would rub, even with fenders rolled. I will be rolling my fenders before I lower mine. I know wheel spacers aren't exactly the safest thing, but I do not drive very aggressively. Ill slide around a turn once every month or two, but thats as aggressive as it gets :) Suggestions on other spacers are more than welcome!

Thanks in advance!

Here is what the car currently looks like
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Trust me, you'll love the choice of coils over springs. Got em on my TT, and L-O-V-E them.

I don't know about the offset on a Z33, but I would rather see someone slammed on stockers with stock fitment than running huge spacers on their narrow stock wheels to achieve a "flush" look. Slam it, save up and get some wide, aggressive fitting wheels, and then you will look good. Not to mention with spacers that big, you'll have to swap out wheel studs, assuming you want to thread your lug nut more than 2 rotations. Don't do more work than you have to.

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KyleR
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But I like my stock wheels :) and new aggressive wheels aren't in the budget and won't be for a while (college student). And don't most spacers come with longer studs? The ones that I were looking at all do.

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Avoid Ichiba...H&R or Eibach are the best.

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AZ350Z wrote:Avoid Ichiba...H&R or Eibach are the best.
Whats so bad about ichiba?

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Ace2cool wrote:Trust me, you'll love the choice of coils over springs. Got em on my TT, and L-O-V-E them.

I don't know about the offset on a Z33, but I would rather see someone slammed on stockers with stock fitment than running huge spacers on their narrow stock wheels to achieve a "flush" look. Slam it, save up and get some wide, aggressive fitting wheels, and then you will look good. Not to mention with spacers that big, you'll have to swap out wheel studs, assuming you want to thread your lug nut more than 2 rotations. Don't do more work than you have to.
Very good advice! :dblthumb:


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