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Narrower tires will help with the plans you have. If you still have minor fender fouling, you may need to borrow a fender roller. (They cost about $250 -- kind of high for a one-shot deal unless you want to eBay it off later.) You can produce subtle but effective results.

As for the dynamics involved in raising or lowering one end, and that producing results at the other end, I don't know what to say about that. I can see something as heavy as an engine having a lowering effect on both ends, but air shocks? Surprising to me but it is all intuition on my part. I have no actual experience.