Rear Tire Rubbing

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Shzfast

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Hello all, I hope you had a great weekend. I have a question that is more of a curiosity thing than anything else, before I do my coilover install. I tried to find a previous thread but not much luck that specific to my situation. The wife and I were out this weekend and had the opportunity to play with a BMW M5 and I noticed I had some very minor rubbing on the left rear tire while running through the curves. I could smell it but after I got home, I couldn't see any evidence of rubbing and thank goodness the fender liners were still intact. I live in Chattanooga, TN and we have a lot of twisties and mountain roads and this is all the car ever sees, I do not track the car. My question is, is it a possibility that the leaf spring can be weaker on one side (even though it is one piece) and/or the shock not control the rebound of the car? My car is a 2007 Z06 with 47,000 miles along with the ZR1 setup with a set of Cray Falcon wheels and a set of Continental Extreme Contact tires. I weigh 198lbs and the wife weighs less than I do and the car had half a tank of fuel. The car is very mildly lowered on stock bolts and is level side to side (pic below). Initially, I thought it was the ZR1 setup, but with the Cray's and the Continental's have almost the same overall dimensions compared to the stock setup with very minor differences according to Discount Tire's tire calculator. I am planning on a set of Pfadt coilovers just to have true independent 4-wheel suspension and hopefully a better controlling car and will hopefully help prevent crosstalk from side to side. Thank you for your feedback.

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