For those of you who have ran auto-x events at Zephyrhills; has anyone else had any bad tire to fender rubbing issues??

I went to the PCA Autocross event, had a blast, great group of people and honestly probably one of my most enjoyable events thus far, until I got home and did a post-event inspection of the vehicle later that week....

I looked at my two front tires, and the outer edges are chopped up a bit and worn down, which I suppose is from the sliding and understeer in the turns, and is what I expected, but then I looked at the inner lip of the fender at the top center area and saw bare metal!!! The drivers side was MUCH worse than the passenger side, but I could tell there was some serious rubbing.

Now before the event there wasnt one paint chip at all on the inner fender lips, and have one prior event at Sebring since the car was lowered, and the car was fine after that.

Then started looking at the video I took with the GoPro, as well as the multiple pictures that were taken of the car courtesy of the event photographer, and determined that based on the area of the fender where the tire was rubbing against, as well as the drivers side being much worse than the passengers, that the tires were turned at the time the rubbing was occurring, and there was some serious weight transfer to the drivers side front area, which is the 180 degree turn around area at the farthest point in the track:



here is a video of it; you can hear the car bottom out pretty good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6JrFHP6iWc



Now it is not the turn around itself that caused the rubbing, because there is still some space between the tire and the fender at this point, but it is that damn dip in the middle of the turn around where the car practically bottoms out. This dip is causing the tires to make contact with the inner fender lips; thus causing this rubbing.

First off, is there anyone else with a lowered car having this issue? I cant believe I would be the only one having this problem.

Second, is there ANYTHING we can do about that dip? I'd be willing to pitch in some $$ and time to help fill that area in and make the turn around area level. I'm very frustrated that I wont be able to run the Zephyrhills course anymore unless I change my suspension setup, because its very convenient to where I live, and I had a blast with the group of people I ran with.

Time to find a good paint shop; I can't imagine repainting that small area will be expensive. I put some touch-up on it for now so it doesnt rust at all.