And another shot.
The wheels are Wed Mavericks 405s, bought straight from japan, custom ordered wheels. I shipped them on the plane home with me after my trip to the tokyo auto salon, so shipping was super cheap.
Sizes are as follows, if you have been following my posts:
20x8.5 +44 S-Lo disk for the front
20x8.5 +35 S-Lo disk for the rears
- You cant fit anything larger than 8.5 without risking the rim hitting the strut housing and fender in the front with a particular offset. You need to use at least a 45-47+ offset w/ 8.5 width wheels on the front to avoid the strut housing. If you run anything lower than the offset I'm using, youll start hitting the bumper tabs if you're low enough. Even if you're not low enough to hit, bumps and dips in the road will make you hit them anyway. I was already hitting bumper tabs, but I had the bumper tabs shaved off completely, and are now being held on by zip ties. You cant tell unless you look under. The bumper no longer gets pushed out when I air out or drive.
- You cant fit anything larger than 8.5 in the rear if you're trying to tuck the wheel and tires. Anything larger than the sizing I specified, and youll hit the fender well on the lower areas of the arch. If you want to push out the wheel a bit more when trying to tuck, 1 or 2 more millimeters should be ok, but youll be resting the fender arches on the wheel and tire.
- You cant camber more than a certain amount of degress using adjustable arms if you're trying to tuck wheel with air suspension. You'll hit the shock housing as well.
- If you're going low, you need to trim the bumper tabs.
- If youre trying to go "HELLAFlush," you can use a 9" width wheel, which should push it out about 6mm more (from a 8.5" width wheel), and it should mate the wheel to the fender. Adjust accordingly using camber arms, and you will need to camber. You will have to TRIM the bumper tabs, but they can stay relatively there.
- If youre trying to poke, obviously, go with a 9.5" width wheel. Have fun with hitting the sliding door. Youll need to camber to make it work though, but youll have to run a massive amount of camber to make the wheel and tire flush with the fender, or you'll poke. Also, you WILL be rubbing, even with rolling the fenders. the bumper tabs stick out too much on the rear that it will rub without being shaved.
No one really plays around with these cars too much in terms of stancing the car out, even more so the japanese bloggers I frequently visit. So i took a gamble and it plays out really well. I guess you can say most of the success was from playing around with the wheel fitments that I had on the mazda5 previously.
I am on AirREX suspension, so measurements need to be accurate to the millimeter to make everything fit.
