Is 1/2" leaf spring relocation worth the trouble?
Yes! @Craig Burriss proved me wrong on that one for sure!
BUT, he also did what most would consider extensive modifications to the fender, and things that most folks wouldn't do on their cars.
The fender lips on the bottoms of his fenders are completely cut away. Not even "pie'd" and moved, but just gone. I'm not judging either, his fenders were rusty and he drives the thing so I'm totally on board, I love that set up and he changed my mind on that tire size. But that's not something everyone is going to want to do. I'm going to try and run 285's on 18x10's or maybe 18x9.5's myself at some point, but even my fenders have gotten to a point with the rolling/pushing that most folks would say I have "extensive mods", and I agree. I think 275's on 18x9's are probably the most you can do unless you want to involve painting the car or running at a different level of "finish".
Same goes for the "Project Yankee" car in that same thread. They actually have negative offset wheels on that car that are well outside of where the 275's on my car are at. Now I do kind of think that car is silly because they're not even running wider tires, they could have easily tucked their wheel/tire combination under a bone stock fender if they'd just used the proper offset. They just pushed the fender, but they went to the point where the body line and bodywork are damaged. They could likely re-work that still if they spent a bunch of time on the fenders, but they just did a crude push
I think those examples just show that you can fit anything you want if you're willing to do that amount of work, or run a different level of "finish" compared to what most folks want to do. Again, I'm not judging, but both of those cars have mods folks wouldn't want to do.
Yes! @Craig Burriss proved me wrong on that one for sure!
BUT, he also did what most would consider extensive modifications to the fender, and things that most folks wouldn't do on their cars.
The fender lips on the bottoms of his fenders are completely cut away. Not even "pie'd" and moved, but just gone. I'm not judging either, his fenders were rusty and he drives the thing so I'm totally on board, I love that set up and he changed my mind on that tire size. But that's not something everyone is going to want to do. I'm going to try and run 285's on 18x10's or maybe 18x9.5's myself at some point, but even my fenders have gotten to a point with the rolling/pushing that most folks would say I have "extensive mods", and I agree. I think 275's on 18x9's are probably the most you can do unless you want to involve painting the car or running at a different level of "finish".
Same goes for the "Project Yankee" car in that same thread. They actually have negative offset wheels on that car that are well outside of where the 275's on my car are at. Now I do kind of think that car is silly because they're not even running wider tires, they could have easily tucked their wheel/tire combination under a bone stock fender if they'd just used the proper offset. They just pushed the fender, but they went to the point where the body line and bodywork are damaged. They could likely re-work that still if they spent a bunch of time on the fenders, but they just did a crude push
I think those examples just show that you can fit anything you want if you're willing to do that amount of work, or run a different level of "finish" compared to what most folks want to do. Again, I'm not judging, but both of those cars have mods folks wouldn't want to do.