- Whether you have a new truck,
an old truck, you're looking for a different truck.
You want a new suspension kit or want new wheels and tires.
The question at the end of the day is always gonna be,
what is the biggest wheel and tire setup
that I can fit on my truck?
Maybe includes a little bit of rubbing,
but it's okay because it's gonna look sick on the 'Gram.
So what can I fit, right?
I think we've all been there.
It's kind of just the question to ask and go for,
and today we're here to share with you
the biggest setups you can reasonably fit
on your '07 to '13 Chevy Silverado 1500.
And I know, they have square wheel wells,
like extremely square.
It's a little bit harder to fit wheels
and tires on these things.
Let's get into it.
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So with any of these trucks,
we've kind of talked about it with the Cateye body style,
the 9906s, but the 07 to 13s, for some reason,
Chevy decided they're gonna have even more squared off
wheel wells than the previous body style.
Don't ask me why I wasn't engineer back in the late '06s
into the early 10s.
I don't know what that, yeah.
The fact remains that you have a square wheel well
you have to deal with, a circle wheel
that needs to fit in there.
So the most reasonable option is the NorCal mod.
If you guys don't know, the NorCal mod
is just a lot of cutting, a lot of smashing,
a lot of folding back and today,
you have a little bit more room
kind of inside of the wheel well,
so that when you're turning and the wheel's swinging in
and out, you can fit your wider wheels and tires in there.
Now, if you get too wide,
you're gonna rub on the outside of the fender.
And at that point you're just screwed.
You can kind of like pie cut and if you know body work,
you can just literally like shave down your fender.
It's a lot more work.
Shawn did it on his truck
because he wanted to fit like the biggest, biggest,
biggest set up possible.
That is something you'll need to go to somebody else for,
not something you can do in your driveway.
But the fact still remains that you have a square wheel well
with a circle wheel that needs to fit.
So most of these are gonna require NorCal
or some type of trimming to make them fit.
But once they're done, they're gonna look pretty good.
So starting with your leveling kit,
you're looking at 20 by nines,
which 20 doesn't really matter, right?
It's a diameter.
You have 20s, 18s.
That's not gonna change the fitment of the wheels
and tires on your truck.
What will matter though, is that width.
On your leveling kit, you're looking at a nine wide.
So nine wides, they're gonna sit pretty much flushed
with your fenders and then tire,
you're going with a 33
or what a lot of people are going with is
like a metric size, like a 285, 75, 17 or 18 or 20,
whatever your diameter is type of thing,
which it'll be about a 33 by 12 or a 33 by 11.
You can already see that with this leveling kit
and the nine wides, you don't have that big of a tire
you can go with.
It is gonna be a little bit taller than factory,
little bit wider, but still nothing crazy.
Because again,
you're gonna have to do quite a bit of trimming
just to fit that.
Now, jumping up from that to like a three
and a half inch lift or a four,
four and a half, all kind of fall into the same category.
There, you're looking at a 10 wide and a 33.
That is gonna be a little bit stuffed
'cause as you're gonna kind of see
throughout this whole video,
those seven to 13s can just pretty much fit 33s
on any suspension that you're going with.
It's just less trimming and more trimming,
depending on how big of a lift you go with.
So the 10 wides, 33s on your four inch lift,
it's gonna need a full NorCal mod to fit that,
but it's gonna look pretty good.
Jumping up from that to your six inch lift,
or if you really wanna stretch out all of your angles,
which we're probably not gonna recommend,
but you could do it anyways,
seven and a half inch lift kits,
you can fit 12 wides and 35s, full NorCal,
seven and a half compared to the six,
it's an inch and a difference,
it's still gonna rub just as much.
You're still gonna need a bumper trimming in the front,
still need a full NorCal on the back, but it looks solid.
I remember when bankers like 2012 or 2013,
whatever it is, got done for the first time,
like way back in the day, he had probably had that truck,
it was three years old at that point,
he had a seven and half inch lift.
He had 12 wides, 2012s and 35s.
And the thing looked big, it looked mean, again,
that was back in like 2016
when seven half inch lift kits were huge.
Now we have like 14 inch lift kits
and don't bat an eye at it, it's weird.
So seven half inch lift kit or six,
if you kinda wanna go more conservative
with the angles that you have with your suspension,
35 are going to run with your 12 wides.
Now, jumping it up to a full-on, big boy lift kit.
If you wanna go all out like Cody Lawson,
you're looking at a seven to nine,
set to nine inch McGaughy's
or I'm sure there's a couple other companies out there.
I think Bailey's got eight inch king coilovers,
there's options, right?
With that eight to nine inch lift kit.
You're looking at 37s with 14 wides,
which I would say is probably the biggest,
baddest, most perfect setup,
but to get that,
you're going with the biggest lift possible.
You're going 14 wides and 37.
So you need a full NorCal to do it.
And of course, it may still rub a little bit.
I'm not saying that any of these setups in this whole video
are gonna not rub when you throw them on your truck
with a full NorCal, they still could,
but sometimes you just gotta make sacrifices for the 'Gram.
And that's what Lawson did.
Now, coming in and out of driveways and stuff,
or you kinda coming at an angle or going into parking lots.
You might rub a little bit,
but it's not gonna be anything that's like crazy.
And it just makes your heart drop
because you think you're ripping your whole fender off.
Trust me, I've been there before.
Now, the other thing too, with these trucks that,
if they don't rub while you're driving in forward gear,
a lot of times what can happen,
even if you kind of like catch it a little bit,
going up in driveways and inclines and stuff, is reverse.
For some reason, the way the suspension shifts,
when you kick it into reverse,
I don't know all of the technical behind it,
but, so for some reason,
these trucks will rub a little bit in reverse,
even with the full NorCal,
if you barely rub going in and out of driveways,
expect it as you're going in reverse out of a driveway.
And you kinda make that turn to go out of your house
and just go down the road, it's just gonna do it.
So whether you're going with a normal lift kit,
you're going with the McGaughy's seven to nine,
or even going with the Rough Country Vertex Coil Over kit,
which by the way, are under like $2,500.
And you can kind of get them at customoffsets.com,
coilovers, smooth ride, rough country,
just saying, no matter what you're doing,
you need a full NorCal
because that's just kind of the name of the game
with these trucks, damn square wheel wells.
It only gets worse with the 1418s, but hey,
we ain't there yet.
You're gonna wanna subscribe for more.
That's youtube.com/customoffsetstv.
That's all we've got for you, peace.
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