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Originally Posted by Llamarage
Would the more sensible option be to get lighter wheels in 19x11 and 19x12 with new stock tire, and just sit with the stock setup until my skill level improves before touching suspension ?
Will post videos of my laps next time at the track wont be for a couple of months due to weather.
For references its turn 2 and 8 where I feel it the most.
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Don't do anything to the car (other than tires) until you're at the fast end of the advanced group. That car as is would probably finish in the top 10 at an SCCA race as select tracks.
Here's a video that 15 time SCCA National Champion Andrew Aquilante posted in a $160k Mustang Dark Horse R Factory race car on brand new sticky Hoosier A7 slicks that are basically a qualifying tire. He ran a 1:22.3 in this vid, but wins races at a 1:21.x race pace.
Here's a video of my ZL1-1LE PB about 2.5 seconds off his pace on used hard compound slicks on a car that I would go commute to work in on the following Monday.
I could probably do the same in your car with just a tire change, the stock magnaride suspension and an alignment. Drive the car and forget about modding it, because it won't make you any faster.
...and as impressive as my lap is, there was a guy that I met this season in a E90 stock road legal M3 with MISMATCHED 200tw tires up my ass and matching my times. Let this sink in.