wheels/tires or springs/shocks?

[Arctc Wolf]

which would give me better handling? a new set of ssr c-1 rims w/ 275-35 front and 275-40 rear tires, or a set of LG coil-overs w/ either koni adj. shocks or the race prepped bilstiens?

[Dominic]

Tires are the #1 thing you need to handle. Without decent tires, you might as well not bother.

With that in mind, what kind of tires do you have now?

[Arctc Wolf]

Z-rated dunlops at 255-50-16. I'm also beefing up the car w/ BMR Boxed sfc's, relocation brackets, and adj. phr soon, B4 I start saving for rims/tires of coil-overs. i corner fairly well right now, and have a little wheel spin when i launch. current mods are in my sig. Both mods are also for appearance, but i don't care which is first, lower stance or 18" rims. what i do care about is which actually will make me handle better, meaning cornering mainly, and maybe launch if i still have wheelspin after sfc's, phr, and brackets.

BTW, coil-overs are 1550 plus install, and wheels/tires will be 2400 installed, if ya wanna take into account the cost to performance gain ratio.

more specs, 18x9.5 rims are 17.6 lbs. each, and tires will be about 27 lbs. for 275-35 and 29 for 275-40. this will end up weighing less than the stock rims and beefy tires I have on right now. somebody weighed 255-50-16 tires on stock rims and came up w/ around 50 lbs. stock rims weight about 19.4 lbs. each, I think.

[ March 12, 2004, 02:22 AM: Message edited by: Arctc Wolf ]

[Wicked 3800 V6]

Damn cowboy you have some serious cash laying around. Are you doing thtese for a reason (racing) or just to have them? If you're doing coilovers just to have coilovers, save yourself some cash and get something like HALs up front and AllStarPerformance weight jackers out back. LG's are $$$$$!
-Rob

[Arctc Wolf]

don't have the cash yet, but I hope I can save up for them. I'm just lookin for opinions on which would help handling more. so far, Dominic has said that springs/shocks would be better, but he also suggested a different setup than the LG coil-overs.