FiefSS

I've had a rear tire rub on the passenger side for a while now but after some work now its on both sides!

Yesterday I put in a set of lca reloc brackets to help take care of the nasty wheel hop from my 98 Camaro being lowered. Took care of that part great But now instead of just the passenger side rubbing the drivers does too. I will attribute that to what else I fixed while I was under there. The rubber spring mount on the drivers side was apparenty not installed correctly when the springs were put in so the spring was 1/2 off of it. We placed the spring back in it. Now both sides rub.

Can you run the car with thinner ones to raise up the car a bit?. I am going to dremel away some of the inner quarter lips or roll them.

For refrence I have 18x10 wheels on the rear with 295's. I am unsure of the wheel backspace I can't find the sheet.

Thanks!

bluz28

"Can you run the car with thinner ones to raise up the car a bit?"

Tires right? Like running a 275/35/18s,or 285/35/18s
Or maybe 275/40/18s, or 285/40/18s in the rear instead of the 295s?

If your going to use the dremel I would still first roll the fender lips up to at least a 45 degree angle.

FiefSS

By thinner I meant the rubber spring isolators, but I guess it would need to be a thicker one and from what I've found energy suspension makes thicker ones but not by much.

I do not want to buy smaller tires, since I spent over $700 on these and the previous set / same size but different brand did not rub. I am going to try the heater hose mod + the spring isolators to give the car a bit of a lift and roll the lips.

Any suggestions on doing the roll. I've read doll rod trick where you heat up the lip and then roll it with a doll rod on the tire as the car rolls slowly?

Injuneer

Do you possibly mean a "dowel" rod? Probably wouldn't be strong enough. Most people use a baseball bat. But it the car has been lowered enough, maybe you need a small diameter dowel rod.

FiefSS

Yeah, I found a pretty decent writeup on that method actually. So I am going to try it.

http://forums.audiworld.com/s4/msgs/1745791.phtml

I will probably go with the Airbags as you had suggested in my previous thread on the subject a while ago as well. I love the stance of the car and I love my lack of wheel hop. I just want to not feel like I'm about to shred a tire when turning or hitting a bump now

bluz28

I did mine almost the same way, except I used a old wooden baseball bat, and I didn't roll(rotate) the bat from left to right. I just started in the middle and raised and lowered the jack a little and repositioned the bat incrementally further to the left and right each time. I repeated this process 4-5 times until the lip was rolled almost all the way back. With a good floor jack, and patience it'll turn out great!
Good luck!

Paul94Z28

Are you referring to the bumpstops? SLP makes a shim for these that increases them by about 1/4". They put them on the cars when they added the 17" rims. My bumpstops just fell off recently (old age I think) and I added these shims - no rubbing now... I bought them on ebay.