[F1Fan]

Hi gcstang,

It depends on your wheels and tires. With a properly designed wheel and tire combination such as the stock 17"x8" wheels and stock 235/5X17" tires you can drop the car to the frame rails and not rub a thing. Of course your actual ride would suck but you could do it. If you had 10" wide, 20" hoops with say a 285/30X20 Pilot Sport A/S tire mounted you are going to be about the same tire height as the stock wheel/tire combo. So with an optimum wheel offset and perfect axle centering using an adjustable Panhard bar you could potentially lower the car using a spring like an Eibach Pro-Kit Sport Spring set and still fit O.K. if not actually all inside the wheel wells. But you cannot go much lower without rubbing even with an adjustable Panhard bar and perfect axle centering. To get the car really low and still use a wheel and tire that fills the wheel wells you need at least a 27"-27.6" tall tire and can not use a wheel wider than 9" even with perfect offset and perfect axle centering using an adjustable Panhard bar.

Also be aware that the lower you go the worse off your steering and suspension geometry will get. This means you will have to do more suspension work to restore the geometry to get back the best handling and steering feel after lowering

So, like I said, it depends.


Cheers

ORIGINAL: gcstang

I am new here as i recently just purchased an 05 mustang gt. and i have 20 in wheels. I was wondering how much i can lower it without rubbing. What setup should I run? I want the best and most complete setup. I have read some of the other posts and want to know if they hold true with my setup.