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Hey, I own a 06 GT and im looking into making it more off-road friendly out on the trails in the desert and maybe a rocky fire road here and there. I'm obviously not going to try to go rock crawling in a fwd open diff car, im not an idiot. but im interested in making it more along the lines of a 2wd baja bug. I'm already half way done with fabing up a skid plate to protect vital stuff and next on my list of things to do is tires to put on my AR 767's that are 16x7, 0 offset while running 1inch adapters. I know the wheel is going to stick out a tiny bit outside of the fender. Im okay with that. IT pushes out the vehicles track which in most off road conditions is a good thing. But im unsure right now of the largest tire i can run on stock springs. From what i've searched on this forum ive come up with this...
215/55/17 - 648mm overall height (stock GT height)
205/70/15 - 669mm overall height (somebodies dad's vibe)
225/60/16 - 676mm overall height (mountainmax)

215/65/16 - 686mm overall height (is this possible on stock suspension?)
215/70/16 - 708mm overall height (dont think this is possible without strut/shock spacers)


I would like to run General Grabber AT2's in 215/65/16 at the least but would love to run the 70 series but I seriously doubt fender clearance is enough without going into strut/shocker adapter territory. I might do that if i can find a non-expensive site/person that sells 2inch spacers that are straight bolt on to the suspension assemblies. If not... I would like to run 215/65/16 but im not sure if they would rub the fender. I tried measuring on my own car but couldnt really do it that well... So thats why im hearing asking if 215/65/16's will rub on stock springs?


(Also, yeah. i know speedo will be slightly off but i really dont care, im going to be using the offroad tires/wheels as an second set of wheels dedicated to just trips. Ill be dailying my stock wheels/tires)

Can't help you with the tire size questions, but I sure would like to see the result! Be sure to post pictures if you raise the car, I think it will look very cool!

I'm not completely sold on raising the car though, right now its at a decent height i think for offroad shenanigans. I spun out at around 60mph a few weeks ago on a dry lake bed and almost rolled it. so definitely want to keep center of gravity low kinda like a rally car but maybe a tiny bit more ground clearance could be useful in trails. I think 215/65/16's might barely fit though. could rub a tiny bit on the fender in which case i could get a heat gun and try rolling it a tiny bit.