19” wheels
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19” wheels
At todays turn around.
I finally put my 19” Forgeline’s on today. Could be a better shade of red perhaps. Maybe I will redo them after visiting a gravel trap or two. Silver/nickel AP racing calipers in the mail. Should look better (and work better). It looks like 8” off the ground in person, though it’s not bad in pictures. Springs coming to lower it an inch. Then some seats I think. The comp ones aren’t terrible, but you can’t really get big g’s on the street. Speaking of which, the Cup 2 Connects are pretty nice. Cornering fast and then just wrenching the wheel to push the front just resulted in the car turning faster. Yawn…I bore the car I think. The wear looks like they are even over inflated. I couldn’t get the TPMS’s to relearn. A fun day driving the local river canyons.
Hope everyone had a good Sunday.
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Fwiw here are a few slicks I stumbled across. Might have to try some. Add any driving info if you know anything.
Hankook F200
Front (soft,med,hard listed below)
300/680R19 1017754 1017755 1017756
Rear (med only)
320/710R19 1016488
Michelin (uses cm apparently. Damn frogs)
Front
29/67-R19 S8A and S9A both say medium. Idk
Rear
31/71-R19 S9M is medium
Hankook F200
Front (soft,med,hard listed below)
300/680R19 1017754 1017755 1017756
Rear (med only)
320/710R19 1016488
Michelin (uses cm apparently. Damn frogs)
Front
29/67-R19 S8A and S9A both say medium. Idk
Rear
31/71-R19 S9M is medium
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19’s are lighter and good tire options. You can use these with stock CCBs.
18’s are even lighter and tires are cheaper. You can use the smaller AP racing discs with this. I can’t recall if J56’s will do 18s.
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I love the look of the 19" wheels on the Z06. I don't like the super low profile tire look anyway. And the choices for track tires is at least reasonable with 19" wheels....it's even better with 18" wheels if you can get them around the brake setup.
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Honestly personally prefer to have more tire just dont get too many guys asking for it on the C8s haha. It does look good just needs to be lowered to close up that gap up a bit and itll be perfect. But it's all personal preference ya know looking forward to seeing this once OP lowers it!
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