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amazing how these fill the wheel wells without any lowering or spacers. The ride is a bit tighter in C, and the rears are almost to the wearbars so traction is much worse right now....which is kinda fun.
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The tighter ride you are refering to is most likely a result of the 20 inch tire having a smaller side profile, this always results in a stiffer ride. You are claiming to be running a 315/20/20 rear, the stock size is a 285/30/19, the stock 285 has about an 85mm profile vs a 63mm profile for your 315/20/20 the difference between the two is over 20mm in sidewall or about 20% so that is what you are feeling. I would watch out for potholes, those tires are not going to offer any protection to those wheels, hell forget potholes, an aggresive pavement transition might flat spot or oval one of those wheels.
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Are you sure about this? I see you edited your post so I assume you already double checked, are you really running 305 fronts and 315 rears? 305's up front sounds a little extreme. If so did you have to raise the ride height or do the wheels have a crazy offset or something? I'm not doubting you to be a dick, it's just that several of us as well as several tuners had determined that 305 in the rear is all that would fit, and I think 285's up front were the max.
The tighter ride you are refering to is most likely a result of the 20 inch tire having a smaller side profile, this always results in a stiffer ride. You are claiming to be running a 315/20/20 rear, the stock size is a 285/30/19, the stock 285 has about an 85mm profile vs a 63mm profile for your 315/20/20 the difference between the two is over 20mm in sidewall or about 20% so that is what you are feeling. I would watch out for potholes, those tires are not going to offer any protection to those wheels, hell forget potholes, an aggresive pavement transition might flat spot or oval one of those wheels.
The tighter ride you are refering to is most likely a result of the 20 inch tire having a smaller side profile, this always results in a stiffer ride. You are claiming to be running a 315/20/20 rear, the stock size is a 285/30/19, the stock 285 has about an 85mm profile vs a 63mm profile for your 315/20/20 the difference between the two is over 20mm in sidewall or about 20% so that is what you are feeling. I would watch out for potholes, those tires are not going to offer any protection to those wheels, hell forget potholes, an aggresive pavement transition might flat spot or oval one of those wheels.
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Looks great however the performance reliability will not be as good. I think you need to now black out all your chrome and exhaust tips 
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I'm not on ur payroll bro
...but there are some pics out there already that I don't mind if you use..
Besides I'd rather be fishing with the short amount of free time I have, and I suck as a photographer.
...but there are some pics out there already that I don't mind if you use.. Besides I'd rather be fishing with the short amount of free time I have, and I suck as a photographer.
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