Noob needs help (mostly street, some track)

MaysEffect

Tires>everything else

You'll want to first get away from the staggered tire setup before you start throwing cash at new parts. All these extra parts mean nothing if you don't have the right tires. Lateral g's comes from the tires. Controlling additional g's (suspension) isn't even necessary if your tires are sliding before you start to roll.

Shoeshear

Yeah, I went up to the conti extreme contact sports from the OEM tire, slightly upsized (255F/285R). I can't go nutty with the tires because it's also my DD. For tires, I think I might end up going 265/295 for the next set, but we shall see. The dream was to run a square setup (buy a set of rears for the front) so I could rotate the tire and get some serious meat up front, but I really like the understeer to oversteer ratio/dynamics that it has now and I'm worried that going square will end up making it rotate way more than I want. It's super controllable/progressive without much snap with this setup.


Also, truth be told, I do look at my car and think dang, it would look hot just a *tiny* bit lower with some spacers. I love the whole car experience (looks, sound, driving), hence the desire to mod. Just kinda caught between wanting to mess with it, since that's how I am, and leaving it to grow as a driver.

Also just to be clear, I totally agree that tires are king, but just trying to keep the tire DD-able.