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Originally Posted by cjd
If the shocks (spring rates/damping/etc) can't handle slicks, you're in for a rough time either way.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I'd take a well tuned suspension setup over stickier tires any day.
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Yeah, that's really more your springs, not the shocks. Base model and Z51 corvettes have this problem. Anything even resembling a track day tire is too much for them whereas the GS, Z06 and Z07 springs are just fine on substantially larger slicks. My friend's Z51 practically endos on the brakes on 265 RE71 whereas my car would be 100% fine on 315 slicks (and I have much stronger brakes too). We both have the same mag-ride shocks. He dialed his up to max stiffness and it didn't do much.
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