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Originally Posted by Watts-Up
Hey Scott, did you get them installed?
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This was going to be 'the weekend' but my son is going into the Air Force in a couple of weeks so I'm going to race this weekend and again in a couple of weeks so he can have a couple more chances to co-drive. Since I'm going to be racing Sunday, this means 'honey-dos' today -- I have to fix my lawn sprinkler system, among other things...
Honestly, I'm so surprised with how it handles with just the rear sway and negative camber font and rear that I'm going to burn-up my 225/40 Hoosiers very quickly -- driving fast is almost like drifting -- a major controlled slide. I had a lot of fun blowing 40 Corvettes away at an autocross as it's setup now -- I did a 70.1 seconds, the average vette did 76 seconds -- you should have seen their faces, and how many came over to look the car over afterwords... Hm-m-m, "...only 4 cylinders...", "...only 122 cubes", "Wat's that funny thing on the front?", "Where are the fan belts?" It was interesting...
I have a line on four Hoosier 275/35 x 18s with about 30 ProSolo runs on them, 'used on one side only', for half price (about $600 for the set). They were being used on a VW R32 with 7.5" wide rims (way too narrow according to Hoosier -- but they worked) -- and they loved them. But the R32's a Turbo and, while the 275s had MASSIVE side stick, they were too much larger in diameter for the turbo R32 (very low torque -- lots of horsepower), so they have accelleration problems out of tight corners.
I've found 8.5" wide rims for the Redline (closer to Hoorier's recommended 9" minimum), the 275s are only 0.9" larger in diameter than stock, the Redline has massive torque, so I think this may be the biggest jump in capability I could find. I still need to buy the wheels... And there's always the 285/30 x 18 Hoosiers...
I'm really beginning to have fun in DSP. It's a fun, very controllable drive.
Again, thanks for the pictures. I'm still looking a little in the future for the install. BTW, the 06 has a large plastic cover surrounding the brake lines so I'm not sure how easy it will be to slip the mount under the brake lines. I'll let you know and I'll take a picture when I do it so you can see.
Scott