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Tire rubbing on F-body wheel well

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Subject: Tire rubbing on F-body wheel well
From: "Sean Long" <seanlong@micron.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 19:26:53 -0600
Hello all,

I have a '98 Firebird TA, and it came with the all-season tires 245/50ZR16.
I recently got some '9x camaro takeoff rims with BFG R1's sized 255/50ZR16.
After my first race with these tires (They worked very nicely btw), I
noticed that a little spot in both rear wheel wells had the undercoating
rubbed off down to the shiny metal.  I checked the tires and noticed no
visible damage.  The rubbing was on the front edge of the wells, at the
3-oclock position on the right rear and the 9-oclock position on the left
rear.

Is there anything I can do to fix this?  Should I be worried?  I checked
tire rack, and they have only a very limited selection of tires in the
original 245/50ZR16 size so going down a tire size will limit my options
quite a bit...  I'm also going to be putting new koni's on all 4 corners in
a month or two, will this help?  Spring work isn't an option since I'm going
to stick with F Stock.

Thanks for any help.

Sean Long



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