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Originally Posted by Sterling Doc
That much change in offset in the front will lead to bump steer and throw the scrub radius out of whack. The bearing loading is also a convern, though the '88's have larger bearings than the early offset cars to begin with.
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My understanding of the bearing load is that it is actually less when cornering, more if you drive in a straight line, so it's beneficial if you're doing autocross etc.
It's what Porsche did with the 924Gt/GTS/GTR line, just have a look at those spacers for an offset/track change. I assume they did this because they had good reasons to, despite the increase in unsprung weight.
Me, I go half-way house: I leave the front well alone, a) because of the abovementioned undesirable stability effects, b) the front track on our cars is wider at the front for some reason lost in the mists of 924 development. But the rear benefits from the early offset wider track, so I run Fuchs ET 36s rather than the correct, late ET 52.3 on there.