ChunksNensja wrote on Mon, 13 June 2005 00:14

Speaking of new car shoes, my dad was driving my car the other day and he seems to think it could do with a bit more traction in the front when its wet so hes offering to ante up in the interest of my safety. Im using the factory teardrop alloys with Bridgestone Potenza RE88s all around. So my question is, what are some tires which can give me a decent performance and stability in the wet but still work well being my daily drivers in terms of price/lifetime? And I know the MK3 wheels will fit but are they any wider or just a waste of time? I plan to get some Spyder alloys in the distant, more money plentiful, future anyway because powder-coated white or black they look shit hot on an AW11.

spider alloys look really good on the aw11 and i think they r wider at the back than the front..

For a good medium priced performance tyre that will come in standard profile in my opinion you cant go past the yokohama a539

edit: the re88's are good if you like your tyres to last 60000km but if you wanna stop and turn then its worth spending some $$$ on your tyres you will be supprised how much difference it will make i hated the re 88's altho they make good smoke

[Updated on: Sun, 12 June 2005 14:35]

yeah seems to work well with the 2 tone paint...

Its got 205's all round atm but i think thats probably as big as you can go at the front as theres only just enuf clearance but at the back i could probably go with 215's no prob

yeah i think i will need all the rubber i can get once the turbo conversions done

im going to see an engineer on saturday to talk about putting the i/c in the boot he has a few ideas of his own but seems to think my way could work as well. It will be interesting to see what he comes up with.

[Updated on: Mon, 13 June 2005 01:31]

In reponse to Fat

yeah I really don't think i can drive a normal car, normal cars piss me off more than anthing else, the make me really angry (turning green ) they are just to slow and too boring to drive, I love that edge of you seat that only a sports car can offer, and what better sports car can you get for $7000??? not much an AW11 is about it, my celica is almost a normal car, its sporty but its a pretty boring and drianing to drive. I have been driving a normal car for the past 5 months, and I am fed up with that because the car is just not capable of doing what I want it to do.

an AW11 dones't cost lots of money, yours did cause look at all the work you did, I still only spent a total of $7000 on mine, that was hell fun to drive, handled well, and had enough power for my liking with the SC. You may think more expensive because you didn't do much of the work yourself, I can do all the work myself happily, but thats the same with everycar.

A car with more potential than an AW11 would cost a lot more, I am a UNI student and don't have that much money, and bang for buck, its hard to go past the AW11.

end rant

[Updated on: Tue, 14 June 2005 09:54]

fatmr2 wrote on Tue, 14 June 2005 22:44

superaw11 wrote on Tue, 14 June 2005 22:21 Hey Fatmr2,if you think the handling of AW11's leaves a lot to be desired may i ask you what type of Supercars you have been driving ? Regards Superaw11 I dont really want to quote myself but: "The handling leaves a lot to be desired. Then again, my car was very different to all of yours so i cant comment on anyones but mine." Never mention anything about supercars but since you asked, a perfect example would be my brothers cappuccino. It has a balance of 52/48. Combine that with a weight of 700 odd kg's and 115rwkw. There you go....a better package than the aw11. (in my opinion) But then again its not everyones sort of car. Im not here to tell you your car doesnt handle well, i just dont think mine was that good. Then again, you dont have 200+ rwkw do you.....

Thanks for clarifying the handling comment and i am certainly not attacking you,but simply interested in why you say this.
That is certainly some super Suzuki Cappucino as stock specs suggest 700+kgs and 47kw power 3 cylinder turbo engine and this would not compare quite so favourly too a stock AW11 let alone a stock SC.
I must also say that not everybody wants 200+ rwkw or even close to that in a sports car but you are entitled to crave and chase this but you need to stop putting down those who do not have or want this sort of power.
Don't get me wrong as i loved reading about what you had done and respect what a lot of you power chasing dudes have done but some of us are content with the cars power as is.
Some of us understand that massive power comes hand in hand with some less desirable traits like lack of reliability for instance and are happy to have a great handling car without wanting to challenge the Supercars of this world in the horsepower stakes.

Cheers and best of luck in whatever you move on to.

[Updated on: Tue, 14 June 2005 16:07]