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Pete,
To be sure, make a tool using 1" x 1" x 48" wood stripping found at your local Rona / Home depot.
The tool is made to resemble the capital letter T. Make the top part of the T about 11" wide (for a 10" wheel with 265/35 tires). Screw the top part of the T to the vertical part (about 13" in radius ) of the T in such a way that it measures the same as the backspacing of your rim.
Now take the tool you just made to resemble the wheel and hold it up to your compressed suspension (on the rear disc) and rotate to see where the interference will be. This is what I did to fit my 18x10 and to determine what size fenders I needed without having to buy/borrow an actual wheel/tire.
I'm guessing you'll need about a 20mm spacer to get the inside of the wheel off the spring plate and you'll need to grind down the upper bump stop in the wheel arch on the rear.
I can barely get a pinky finger between my 18x10 et 47 and the rear springplate and the outside of the tire barely rubs the lip of my 2" wide fenders.
Sandeep
Last edited by Sandeep; December 19th 2007 at 11:11.
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