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Old 10-15-05, 09:48 PM
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Fender rub

so I'm running Enkei 92 series. 15x7 offset +7 and 205-50/15 tires. They rub in the front. Does anyone elses? If you've had rubbing in the front what have you done to fix it? I was going to roll the fenders, but my question is can I remove the mud gaurds and cause no damage? It look like if I remove them that would cause a lot of air to flow throught the tire well. Anyone taken them out and not had an issue? If so did it change stability at hhigher speeds?
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I had 205-50/15 tires on the front of mine, using Eibach springs, and finally fixed tire rub by going down to 195-50s on the front. I haven't noticed any rub, since doing so.
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yea I've got eibach's too, and I don't really want to go to 195's. but that seem's to be the most acceptable answer. My goal is to get over 1 lateral G on street tires... > I'm currently running kumho ecsta 711's.
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Mud Guards... as in tire skirts...? the black plastic stuff inside the wheel well. Removing it would trow water everywhere when it rained. It's late... if thats not what u mean. hehe
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yea that's the stuff I was talking about.
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what do you mean everywhere. Everywhere inside the tire well?
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Yea without them water, pebbles, anything that sticks to your tires will get shot right up into ur engine compartment. Ummm wait, sorry, I could be wrong... I actually forget if that directly covers access to the engine compartment like say a camaro would... and my car is not here to look.

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i said fawkit and ripped it all out. then i beat the hell out of my fenders with a hammer. ope they won't rubb anymore... lol




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