I took my trunk liner out tonight so i could see about a rear shock tower support, but i really cannot see how the support's extra strength would be noticable. i was also looking at the rear sway bar, how can an aftermarket bar really be worth the money?

Can you guys that have one or both of these tell me if the change is noticable? :p

 

oh yeah and one more thing... i read about guys lowering an inch or putting on wider tires, but i have yet to find someone who has lowered and put on wider than 245's, i want 265 or 255 and to drop about an inch, i really do not want to try it and find out : )

 

oh yeah, thanx in advance, twice

 

well since the rx-8's chasie(spelling?) is pretty strong in the back the rear strut bar won't have as big an impact as the sway will . if you go to racingbeats web site they have numbers pout up on the difference their sawy bars did:D

 

I have both the MS Front/Rear Strut Tower Bar and the Racing Beat Front/Rear sway bars installed on my RX-8. I put the Strut tower bars on about 2 weeks before I put the sways on. The handling increase is extremely noticable with these mods. Body roll was significatly decreased. Steering Responce is increased. Also, wheel hop is virtually non-existant (that is if you have proper tire pressure). I hope that is the information you were looking for.

 

I have my winter wheels on right now. The tire sizes are 225/45-18 front and 255/40-18 rear. With tires wider in the rear than the front the car will tend to push a bit in the turns, in otherwords a little oversteer. Putting a bigger sway bar up front will also give you a little bit of oversteer.

However, I like the aggressive look the wider rear tires give Once I get my Axis Hiro's come off backorder, I'll have 245/35-19 front and 275/30-19 rear.

 

as long as you have a correct offset for the wheels, then it'd be sweet.

i had the same setup for my last set of wheels with 8.5" wide wheels. it wasnt lowered, but we have trail fit the wheels and we could've dumped it 2" without touching anything if we wanted.
not long after that, got rid of the 19's and got the 20" with 245/35 profiles all round, and lowered it 2.5" front and 2.75" rear, not rubbing at all :D

 

holy smokes, i am a retard i love to be in wwf. it sucks ***

 

I'm running 245's in the front and 275's in the rear, with 1 inch drop; no rubbing issues. In fact, I'm going to put on 285's later on.

 

sorry about that, i should've expected my helpful sister to respond for me while i was away from the computer

how about pics on those 275's, i'd love to see some of those fat tires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Once the weather improves and I put my auto-x suspension back on the car, I will be trying a 1 1/2 drop with 255's. It was no problem with the 225 OEMs. Nice thing about coilovers, if it rubs I can just raise the car up until it quits rubbing.

 

keep me up to date, i really want to do something, possibly soon