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Originally Posted by Stang70Fastback
Staggered is worse for performance; not better. A square setup is ideal both in terms of performance (neutral handling) and in terms of being able to properly rotate your tires. Putting wider tires on the rear makes the car more prone to understeer, though you likely wouldn't notice in DD use unless you like to drive at 10/10ths on the street... which you shouldn't, lol.
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You're right that it is more neutral and a staggered setup will lead to understeer in this car, but overall a staggered setup CAN be better for performance.... the car just has to be set up for it. You're not going to put squared rims and tires on a 911 gt3 or a viper acr or even an mr2 turbo, but those cars are designed from the ground up for staggered setup. trying to turn a neutral car into a staggered setup without a lot of corresponding work is going to be a bad time.
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Originally Posted by ST185RC
You should get a new dealer. if you do play out your conceived wheel choice, your car's performance will suffer some pretty big penalties. The car barely has enough stock torque to get decent acceleration from the stock 17x7.
Your braking distance will definitely increase, your acceleration will suffer, your turn in will be horrible, your hubs will see excessive wear.
If you're gonna spend on knockoff wheels, that would be your first mistake.
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you are right about everything in this post except for braking distance. someone correct me if i'm wrong, but more rubber is almost always going to be better for braking performance than less rubber. Larger contact patch - larger braking surface - more drag to actually bring the car to a stop. That said, a squared setup of say 245 all around is going to perform better than 215f/245r by that same principle.