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Originally Posted by PoorMans180SX
I'm pretty sure the wheel well clearance issue would only be an issue if you were already bottoming out your shocks at the ride height you were at. Also, you are going to have more roll resistance when you raise your roll center, so this will decrease the likelihood of you running into interference issues during bump.
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Bottomong the shock is not the issue. Bottoming the shock shouldn't be the issue on the front of any s-chasis car running anyone's coilovers. Although really I'm sure it is an issue because of the really cheap ass coilovers floating around like the plague. Wheelwell clearence in the front of the s-chasis cars is EXTREMELY limited. That is the only real issue limiting our available bump travel. The obvious solution is fendertubs, but fendertubs are not allowed in a lot of "racing" classes. I am absolutely 10000000% positive that with my stances and those knuckles I would have bottomed the tire on the fenderwell long before I bottomed the shock.
Now, yes correcting the roll center will cause less body roll and that would help with fender rubbing issues. The problem is that there will for absolute certain be situations in which the tire does bottom in the fenderwell both at the track and on the street. Bottoming your tire rather then your suspension is NOT a good thing. At the least it could damage the tire and at the worst it could cause you to lose control of the car.
mmdb, not checking the tire clearence after making that large of a change is not a very smart thing to do. Really that should be done when simply installing and setting up coilovers man...