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Old Apr 5, 2011 | 08:09 PM
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After how many handling component upgrades do the 245/50/16 tires become a bottleneck for handling? I realize they suck, but are pretty expensive to upgrade.

Thanks in advance for any advice
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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 04:10 AM
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Uhh.. In all honsety, I would say that tires could be your best or worst handling upgrade..

If it were my car, upgrading at minimum to a 17" 275 performance tire would be one of my first upgrades.

I run HPDE track days with a 275/40-17 Nitto NT-01's.
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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 08:19 PM
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Tires are the only thing that touch the road, if you are going to run cheap/small tires all the suspension mods in the world wont help.
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Old Apr 7, 2011 | 11:57 AM
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275/40R17 is pretty cheap anyway...
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Old Apr 7, 2011 | 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by paulc87
After how many handling component upgrades do the 245/50/16 tires become a bottleneck for handling? I realize they suck, but are pretty expensive to upgrade.

Thanks in advance for any advice
Why do they suck? I've had two setts of 245/16 GoodYear Eagle F1 GSD3s on my car since I replaced the stocks . They are excellent handling, wet & dry...even more so after suspension mods: welded SFC, STB, Bilsteins, poly LCAs.

IMO it's more a question of how much power you've got. Now that I'm up to near 400rwhp after my cam, they are starting to give a little when accelerating hard. But, for now 1) it's fun . and 2) That little slip is stress that I'm keeping off my stock differential.

But, I'm a minority opinion here. Everyone thinks they have to have big rims and wide tires. For the girls I guess.
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