Wondering if anyone runs non stagered wheels for street use? Im looking at buying a set of 18" enkie wheels off of a member of this site, but they are all the same size, I believe 18x7.5 . I just want to make sure I know what im getting myself into incase there are handling issues on road use. Ive read the sticky's in the wheel/tire forum but they leave room for discussion I think. Im not worried about the track because ive I decide to run autocross I will be saving my ap1 wheels. Feel free to flame as I am ignorant on this j/k any help is appretiated.

regards,
Tyler

Here is a link to pics of the wheels im interesed in.

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2244362/1

 

subscribing, interested

 

This would probably get answered quicker in the Tire Rack forum or one of the help forums.

 

The good thing is that you can rotate your tires but your oversteer will be more pronounced especially driving over grooves in the road or unevenpavement. I used to run four rear OEM wheels and tires. I had an alignment shop set the camber to zero and the car drove like a dream with no reduction in cornering and it saved tire wear at the same time.

 

If you spend some time reading the Racing and Competition forum (the most informed forum on here IMHO), you'll find that believe it or not the hardcore trackers (search for threads from MaxRev) are running non-staggered tires/wheels. For their purpose/setup, they've found that to work the best.

Like Hygiene said, by increasing your front tire size you will increase the grip available on the front relative to the rear...resulting in oversteer. Your steering may feel a little heavier due to the larger wheels/tires, but not much especially if you have 7.5 width rims up there.

Just like Hygiene mentioned, I think working the alignment will help. Reduce your front negative camber (or set it to zero) and increase your rear negative camber. That will counter-act the effect of the increased front tire section width in cornering.

IHMO, just for street driving, you will probably be just fine with non-staggered and an alignment.

 

Don't forget you can play with air pressures to help with oversteer/understeer....

 

Thanks for the responses guys, I think im going to give them a try with a proper alignment. If all else fails and I dont like them Ill hock'em on ebay.

 

offsets?

 

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