looking at a gtr today had me thinking why dont i ever see evos with a staggered set up? i have a 50/50 power split with q-lsd. my rear loves to kick out a bit in the corners so why shouldnt i do 9inch wide in front and 9.5 in back. i believe stock is 8.5?

SAME SIZE RIMS DIFF RIM WIDTH

 

cause the GTR has its diff's setup for a staggered setup from the factory thats designed for different rotation speed, the evo is setup for the same size and equal rotating speed...

why do you want a staggered setup anyway?

 

iv seen a few do it just make sure the tire size is the same

 

I've always seen staggered figment as only for rwd cars not awd and especially not for fwd

 

look at the gtr and youve seen it lol

 

maybe staggered was the wrong wording i ment the wideness of the wheel not hight

 

Plus you will have to re-align it whenever you rotate your wheels.

 

Most the time when you are cruzing in the GTR it running a rwd setup.
It's not like the Evo's full time awd system

 

I've seen plenty of autoxers run 18x10 front, 18x9.5 rear for better rotation. I haven't seen anyone do the opposite though.

 

Because different width wheels will create different diameter wheels, resulting in different rolling speeds of the wheels and straining the drivetrain

 

I guess I never really thought about it! Sub'd for some good conversation

 

Coming from the VW community... we ran staggered constantly for "stance" and 90% of our cars are fwd... yeah we did it for looks but the audi boys never ran staggered as its not the same traction wise, and you really cant rotate wheels because of the size differences :/

 

Why would we want one? Going slightly wider up front I understand, but that's not what you mean.

 

ok to clear some of this up- staggered can be either width or diameter. if u ran a wider rim in the back it wouldnt effect the wheel speed but does bring up questions about strain on the awd setup. if u want the wide lip look then run the same width with diff offset.U DONT ROTATE STAGGERED WHEELS nore need an alignment to run wider wheels. unless its fwd running wider fronts than rears make no sense. i think i covered it all

 

People seem to be confused here.

Butt Dyno's response, I believe, is the only post that makes any sense. You can run wider wheels out back without affecting the overall diameter of the wheel/tire. That is of course dependent on the size of the wheel and the aspect ratio of the tire.

Per Butt Dyno, he has seen people run wider wheels/tires up front (more grip for front = front sticks, rear send tends to slide). This is for someone who does some form of tracking (autox or road race) and prefers to be able to induce oversteer a little easier.

For purely looks, you can run a wider wheel in the rear than the front, but if/when you rotate your tires you would then have the wider wheels up front. If that's what you want to do and you don't change the overall wheel/tire diameter between the fronts and rears than it shouldn't cause any issues.

-Bill