Rubbing problems

[240Stilo]

All right....here's the skinny. I just got new tires 235/45/17 all around on 17x8 +35 wheels. Under hard cornering I was always hearing a scraping sound and assumed it was the tire sidewall. I finally got curious and decided to check the wheel well to see if it was rubbing up against the struts and found that instead it has been rubbing on the lining inside the wheel well. On one side it has burned a hole right through it.

The first solution for this would be to drive as a law abiding citizen because that's when I have no troubles. I adjusted the KYB AGX to it's stiffest to see if that would help, but it did not. If I wish to make it onto an auto-x event I need to find a better solution to this madness.

[uiuc240]

All right....here's the skinny. I just got new tires 235/45/17 all around on 17x8 +35 wheels. Under hard cornering I was always hearing a scraping sound and assumed it was the tire sidewall. I finally got curious and decided to check the wheel well to see if it was rubbing up against the struts and found that instead it has been rubbing on the lining inside the wheel well. On one side it has burned a hole right through it.

The first solution for this would be to drive as a law abiding citizen because that's when I have no troubles. I adjusted the KYB AGX to it's stiffest to see if that would help, but it did not. If I wish to make it onto an auto-x event I need to find a better solution to this madness.

Take out the fender lining.

Get spacers to keep them from rubbing your struts.

Get about 1/8" shaved off the new treads.

Eric

[240Stilo]

They're not rubbing the struts. Just the lining. But I'll see what taking out the lining does. Hopefully it doesn't start flinging mud where it shouldn't be.

[holisticbeatz]

If you could hear the rubbing when you're cornering hard, I doubt it could be your fender/wheel well liner. That liner is made of plastic and you shouldn't be able to hear it as it gets eaten up by your tires. Depending on where the rubbing is occuring, you might have to roll your fenders or dial-in some negative camber.

Ohyea, and another thing Juan.. good race! LOL.. I never hit 120 mph w/ my car before. I was the guy at Marcus's house that one night he did his clutch job.. I was driving the bling bling gold S14..

-kenny

[xsparc]

i have the same problem, i have 17x7.5 +40 offset with 10mm spacers. i am rubbing on the lower edge for the inner rear fender well (along the engine bay, not the backside of the fender). what i did was took a 5lb malot and pounded in where it was rubbing, no more problem. also does anyone know where to get longer studs? the nismo ones are like $10 a pop.

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juss get stronger sway bars

[uiuc240]

If you could hear the rubbing when you're cornering hard, I doubt it could be your fender/wheel well liner. That liner is made of plastic and you shouldn't be able to hear it as it gets eaten up by your tires. Depending on where the rubbing is occuring, you might have to roll your fenders or dial-in some negative camber.

-kenny

Absolutely wrong. When you munch through the liner, it sounds like a huge dremel sawing through a huge board. It's scary, actually. Mine came loose on the freeway at about 80 mph and started rubbing the tire. Before I knew what had happened, the tire had rubbed/burned a huge hole in it.....liner was toast. I still need a new one :(

Eric

[Hawd]

Absolutely wrong. When you munch through the liner, it sounds like a huge dremel sawing through a huge board. It's scary, actually. Mine came loose on the freeway at about 80 mph and started rubbing the tire. Before I knew what had happened, the tire had rubbed/burned a huge hole in it.....liner was toast. I still need a new one :(

Eric


why do you need fender lining? Just rip all that shit out. Thats what I did.

[240Stilo]

Ohyea, and another thing Juan.. good race! LOL.. I never hit 120 mph w/ my car before.
-kenny

Yeah what up kenny. Don't encourage reckless driving...haha. You must have cut your speed limiter cuz you were doing more than 120. either that or the J30 diff made a difference. ANd just for the record so people don't get all anal...the freeway was sooo empty and I got tired of driving the speed limit on an empty freeway at 3 in the morning.


Ok I took out everything and it helped nothing. On top of that I need to see if i can move the wires that run across the driver side fender since the tire will now eat into that. My temporary solution is just to take it easy on uphill and downhill cornering because that's when it really makes the tire rub. Other than that, on level surface I have no problem. But like I said, this will be a temporary solution.