I'm looking to buy some new Enkei Performance EV5 wheels from tirerack. com. The wheels are 17x7, Was looking to pair them with Kumho's Ecsta 4x Ultra High Performance All-Season tires. Link to the tires is posted below.

Wheels are listed as having a 38mm offset. I was wondering what offset spacer to look for. Was thinking a 10mm.
It says on tire rack that some vehicle's need a camber adjustment. Does anyone think it needs that done, and if so, what kit should I look for?
I have the standard alloy wheels that come with the 09 sport.

I am also having them install the 315MHz tire pressure sensors.




Enkei Performance EV5 Bronze w/Machined Lip

Kumho Ecsta 4X

 

Depending on tires, you'll rub. If you keep the 17 matched to a 40 series tire, which is less diameter than stock, people seem to be okay. It will look funny if not slammed though.

Even with my +45 16s with 205s I rub on front corner when really pushing it. You can add quite a large rear spacer to most wheel/tire setups on this car, but if longer than 5mm you will need to get extended studs.

 

dont get the +38mm get the +45mm and adjust with spacers if you want. In the drop down box there should be a +38 and a +45

 

Do you know what camber you're running front and rear? My shop will be installing H&R springs this week along with 42 offset 16x7 wheels and 205/50 Conti DW tires. It would be interesting to have a sense of where we'll need to end up on the alignment.

 

as far as I know its the standard camber. I don't know what it is set to now.

 

My question was to hayden. This post is convincing as a source for the recommended settings from Honda: https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/778188-post10.html

 

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Good call on that, didn't notice that there were two different options on those wheels, it wasn't apparent until i selected the second 17 x 7 option and checked the details.

Now given that they are 45mm offset, and the cross section width on the tires is 8.1 inches. should i get a spacer? As it was said earlier, if a need more than a 5mm spacer i would need longer studs. Are they difficult to change out?
I'm hoping to be able to change these wheels my self and with two of my motor-head friends from work.
They might be able to help me with camber kit if i need one, but why would camber be that much different on a wheel that is only 1 in. wider?

 

when you mount the wheels use a ruler and a straight edge to measure how big of a spacer you will need for the look you want. If your into the whole hellaflush thing your gonna either need a lower offset wheel or spacers for the rear. Most people say that 42-45mm is good for the front without any modification other than camber.

Edit: Both the wheel and tire are going to be wider so depending on how you drive, how heavy a load you have, and what kind of streets your on you may have a slight rub on a 45mm wheel. A degree or two of camber should fix that though depending on your suspension setup.

 

And camber is just the angle right, 17, 45 would be only like 1/4 different in size from 16, 55 right?

 

Yeah camber is the angle. A 17x7 wheel is .5in wider and a 205/45 tire is 20mm wider and 7.62 mm taller. When your speedo reads 60 you will actually be doing 60.6mph

 

i shouldnt need camber adjust then right? I had a wheel alignment done recently too, so camber should be good.

 

Yeah you should be good at at stock height.

 

Thanks for the info guys!