Any benefit in 'upgrading' to 275/40/19 and 295/35/20 for a DD?
I'm in the process of selling off my 2010 GT with only 12k miles to purchase a 2014 GT500. I've started doing a tremendous amount of research. Doesn't look like I will be modding this much, apparently it's pretty great from the factory. Just a few questions regarding some hard street driving.
Will I gain any performance (handling, traction) by moving up 10mm front and back with my tires? I'm looking at Michelin Pilot Sport A/S-3 in the stock setup or MPSS in 275/295 otherwise. Running 275/40/19 all around and love it on my Cooper RS3-As.
I'll be purchasing the M-5300-L springs with a panhard bar to go on as well. Will I need to do like the GTs and go full on relocation brackets, LCA, adjustable UCA to fix any possible problems with my control arms being angled wrong or pinion angle being off? I don't want to incur any traction issues or anymore rear end whine I hear some already have.. I was at least going to go with relocation brackets.
I shouldn't even be asking this considering I tuned my 10 the day I got it.. should I expect a big increase in torque/throttle response with a new tune? I'm thinking about JPC since they're local. Not really looking for power -- I got the tune on my GT to improve the throttle response and overall 'wake' the car up, feel the torque across the RPMs. Not sure if the GT500 needs it or if people are just getting tunes because it's what everyone else is doing.
If these questions have already been answered I'll gladly accept the flames :fm: if you'll link them to me to read. :rockon::beer:
I'm in the process of selling off my 2010 GT with only 12k miles to purchase a 2014 GT500. I've started doing a tremendous amount of research. Doesn't look like I will be modding this much, apparently it's pretty great from the factory. Just a few questions regarding some hard street driving.
Will I gain any performance (handling, traction) by moving up 10mm front and back with my tires? I'm looking at Michelin Pilot Sport A/S-3 in the stock setup or MPSS in 275/295 otherwise. Running 275/40/19 all around and love it on my Cooper RS3-As.
I'll be purchasing the M-5300-L springs with a panhard bar to go on as well. Will I need to do like the GTs and go full on relocation brackets, LCA, adjustable UCA to fix any possible problems with my control arms being angled wrong or pinion angle being off? I don't want to incur any traction issues or anymore rear end whine I hear some already have.. I was at least going to go with relocation brackets.
I shouldn't even be asking this considering I tuned my 10 the day I got it.. should I expect a big increase in torque/throttle response with a new tune? I'm thinking about JPC since they're local. Not really looking for power -- I got the tune on my GT to improve the throttle response and overall 'wake' the car up, feel the torque across the RPMs. Not sure if the GT500 needs it or if people are just getting tunes because it's what everyone else is doing.
If these questions have already been answered I'll gladly accept the flames :fm: if you'll link them to me to read. :rockon::beer:
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