I want all the time I spent in this thread back...
But to answer the OP's questions, because I just feel like it:
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QUESTIONS for you modded BRZ & FRS owners
1. How much better does the Street handling GRIP improve on your FRS / BRZ's when you add say 17x9 rear wheels with 255 tires and 17x8 front wheels with 245 wide tires?
2. With the above tire and basic accompanying suspension mods (like coilovers and minimum bushings), how much better is the drive experience with a turbo kit making ~300-320whp on the street?
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Answers the OP deserves:
1. You wouldn't improve handling doing that as much as you would doing the following - decrease tire size from stock to 205/45-17 on Max Performance tires and change wheels to a lightweight 17x7.5 +40 to +45 fitment all around. Less unsprung weight with grippier tire compounds lead to an agile car that grips and changes direction so fast it will blow your concept of the deForester being a sports car out of the water as the FR-S passes it from the outside of a high speed, decreasing radius turn.... (passing on the inside would probably be safer for the FRS though as the deForester understeers and starts plowing out (and earning it's name) from going too fast trying to keep up... that's the beauty of AWD.
2. No changes to suspension really needed with a power upgrade... There are other ways to make the ride quality better without even touching the factory suspension (mainly strut tower brace and reduction in unsprung weight...) I'm still running the paltry factory power levels that are absolutely abysmal (who in their right mind accepts 200hp in cars these days, doesn't matter how light they are...hp is hp!), but I'd imagine 300HP to the wheels would make it a whole other experience and absolutely blow my mind.
But I wouldn't waste my time with 300HP when you could put a 2JZ in it (sourced from a Soarer perhaps...) and have an excellent daily driver with 600hp. Because 600hp is probably just about perfect for a daily driver vehicle. Though I will say even with the abysmal stock power levels I have received 2 speeding tickets in the last 2 1/2 years (I'm serious - the car actually is fast enough, just barely though, to get speeding tickets - stock(ish)! I'm freaking
AMAZED it can do that with it's pathetic stock(ish) hp and torque level!) A 600hp FRS would be great for that Bugatti Veyron that is always challenging me at the stop light drags - keep telling him to hold his horses, my 2JZ-GTE hasn't come in yet...race war demands have put them on back order for quite a while now.