Watched a clean white GR86 roll into a meet last summer sitting on coilovers, maybe an inch and a half down, and something still looked off. Owner knew it too. Kept walking around the car like the answer was going to show up if he circled enough times. Somebody finally said it out loud: it's not the ride height, dude, your wheels are parked in the middle of the fender.
That's the ZN8/ZD8 in a sentence. Toyota and Subaru shipped it at 17x7.5 or 18x7.5 at +48 on a 215 tire, 5x100, 56.1 bore. That offset isn't laziness, it's a global-market spec built to clear a strut, survive a curb, and pass in every country they sell it in. But +48 pulls the whole face inboard, so the fender arch ends up an inch away from anything. You can drop the car all day and you're just moving a narrow wheel closer to the ground.
The fix is width and a lower offset, square, not staggered. This car turns on rotating tires and a Torsen out back — staggering it is copying a chassis it isn't.
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