Spacers without lowering?

apez · 10-10-2022, 07:51 PM

Is it silly to run spacers without lowering the car? I see 12 front/15 back mentioned a lot. Does more then that rub?

Lowering (a little) is on my radar, but I want to space out any major expenses a bit.

79 911SC · 10-10-2022, 08:56 PM

I received and installed my spacers (13mm front, 10mm rear) before I could get springs installed. I thought it looked great. Had I not already bought springs I might have left it.

But I'm old fart 😁

*Edit - Now that I look at the photos it looks much better lowered.

Rdurty2 · 10-11-2022, 07:46 AM

I have 12mm front spacers and 15mm rear spacers. This is probably the most popular combo.

You definitely want the larger spacers in the rear as the goal is to have the edge of the wheels flush, or close to flush with the fender.

XC3LLR8 · 11-04-2022, 10:57 AM

Spacer size can change slightly depending on your factory package. I have the ZTK with 8.5" / 9.5" and went with 13mm spacers all around and think it's perfect. This way the footprint remained proportionally the same - all four corners moved out 13mm.

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XC3LLR8 Banned 2063 Rep 1,559 Posts Drives: Super73 Join Date: Jan 2022 Location: Keller, TX iTrader: (0)	Spacer size can change slightly depending on your factory package. I have the ZTK with 8.5" / 9.5" and went with 13mm spacers all around and think it's perfect. This way the footprint remained proportionally the same - all four corners moved out 13mm.
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