It's All About Stance

So OEM cars here in Japan have to pass the bi-annual shaken, and one of the inspection items is to make sure the wheels do not extend past the fenders.  Some people add flared out fenders and then run a wider tread, but in this case, I figured that would be weird and the car is already large enough when driving as it is, so I decided instead to see if I could add spacers front and rear to fill out the fenders a bit.

I did the rears first, and Ochiai-san at Omori Factory was kind enough to recommend which aftermarket part was acceptable from a Nismo persepctive.

Check out that overhang!

First step was to back the Elgrand onto some low ramps so I could jack it up.

Interesting that all these tools I bought for working on the GT-R work well for this car too!

So these wide-tread spacers are made in Japan by TK-Lathe

Pretty hefty!

Meanwhile, I was busy getting the rear wheels off -check out that pretty S-tunes supsension!

For the rears, 15mm is the way to go. Appanretly true for other Nissan minivans too.

After the instsall, pretty flush, huh!

For the fronts, I decided to go for something that was a bit easier to install. Regular 5mm spacer.

Before!

After!

Much much better. Although I do worry a bit about the fronts, the OEM studs are showing pretty short now....