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Old 03-19-2014, 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by jlwdvm View Post
After much research, head scratching, and re-reading this thread 3-4 times I finally ordered V40 rims...18x9.5" with 6" back spacing for the front and 18x11 with 7" for the rear. Hopefully that gets me close at both ends of the car, but I guess I can always use a spacer if needed. That's why I erred on the side of having a little too much back spacing, rather than not enough.

18x9.5" with 6", excellent! and having a spacer or many spacers is a good tuning tool also, I use 2 spacers (0.095 in.each) 2 each side of my 9.5 rims with 5.5 back spacing to adjust turn-in (i think its called scrub radius) I dont really know, I do know on my camaro if I want a tighter turn in on certain tracks I remove both spacers and the car turns in faster like a beast almost twitchy...but faster longer tracks I add spacers as needed to slow down the turn in, for me...its a quick and dirty way to adjust so steering without changing toe-in or camber
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