Like I said, its not hanging, its jacked up by the LCA, and never had the weight of the car taken off of it, its an 8.5 +40, not an 8+40, even if you took the wheel in 12mm, you are still going to have the edge of the tire there, and like I said before him wanting a 7" rim pretty well eliminates running a stretched tire to gain clearance. With something like your 9" wheel, yes you've got room to run a small tire and have your wheel lip that close without the tire hitting, with a 7" wheel, if he wants any sort of resemblance to traction, a stretched tire isnt nearly as much of a viable option.

 

But he would have no need to stretch a tire, I just said that I had 15x7 +0 on my car with coils and arms dialed in to stock settings. 205/50/15 tire, no rubbing issues, the exact opposite of stretch and it was fine.

Now for my 9" wheel, I'm running 215/45/17 with a track of 8.4" width. Not quite a stretch, and it fits.

 

You hadnt edited your post to include your actual wheel setup with the 15's, again, a little tire, a 205/50/15 is only a 23" tire, you could run almost anything for offset and not have it hit anything.

And yes a 215 is a stretch on a 9" wheel, you've got a tire sized for a 7-7.5" wheel, on a 9" wheel, put something even close to reasonable (a 245) on there, which is undersized compared to what most factory cars with a 9" wheel run, and you are going to have issues.

Please keep in mind, its great that you are rolling around on a stock KA, but even a lightly modified SR is capable of running bottom 13's in the 1/4 stock, and can benefit from some extra traction.

 

Bought se's off Whattadobo with like brand new tires on them. My car rides alot better now lol. Bye bye tear drops.

 

my r32 wheels, with not a lot of camber, and 225-50-16's were sunken in the wheel wells. i ran s14 flcas and a 15 mil rear spacer.

 

you use too many generalities.
and i dont think youve actually driven on stretched tires, it seems you think that once a tire isnt bulging over the sidewalls that its instantly like driving on banana peels.

 

I thought you were just running 10mm front spacers in the pictures I asked you about, and they looked about flush, but its been a while since i've seen them as the wonderful HP laptop I have them on died, either way, IMO it looked pretty damn good and not sunken.

Either way I dont know how much I believe the rears being sunken with a 15mm spacer, I can easily see where the 8.5+40 with no spacer is at that i've got bolted to my car at the moment, *shrug*, at any rate when it comes down to time for me to buy wheels i'll be going with a 9-9.5" rear, and 8" front, with all the offset I can get without the wheel actually touching the coilover

 

cool man.
i cant wait to see it and laugh at it looking stupid.

 

That's exactly what I'm going for. Maybe a 215 on the back if I go 15x7F and 15x7.5R.

 

Its not so much the matter of them being stretched, its running a tire that narrow in the first place, my car was on 215's, and while I did manage to cut a couple sub 2.0 60' times at the track, which required a bunch of careful footwork, most of the time giving enough throttle to push those times resulted in some wheelspin, I certainly could have benefited from a wider tire and merely had an SR with fmic, clutch, filter, full exhaust, and a J30 lsd.

Like I said, stretch, is fine, a little bit of stretch generally looks great, much better than tire bulge, square or slightly stretched is nice, but running itty bitty tires is going to result in less traction.