Its not like I live in CA right on a earthquake fault line.... Ohh wait. Ya garage needs a deep cleaning but I am waiting on my garage addition to be done first.

 

i hated the rt615k+ on the evo

 

I have them on my Evo too. Not the best tire for sure but will have to do for now. I would like to make it to the track a couple more times this year and 615s were the only way it was happening.

 

What wheels are those again (didnt see them mentioned earlier)? Looks like a great fitment!

 

I might not have said who made them yet. Dont remember haha. They are made by Apex Racing, the SM-10 model. These are Supra specific wheels and fit perfectly. Once I get coilovers I am going to buy another set of 18x11s and put them up front with some 315s. That way I can have a square setup.

 

Can you break the rear loose still w/ 315 tires?

 

I am sure it will. Too much traffic this morning to find out for sure. Will let you know when I give it a go.

 

Ok so yes it still lights the tires off in first but it has a lot more traction now. And I mean a lot more. Now it won't light them off in 2nd gear rolling at 3k rpm, which is a pretty hard hit.

 

315s x 4???

 

Not yet! I have 275s up front now. Once I get coilovers I can run 315s all around. Currently have 1/4" between tire and strut (more like the spring though).

 

So, coilovers and wheels = 315s. That's going to be faster than my Evo. Time to move on. Easy button.

 

Now I see why a lot of F80 M3 w/ S55 engine lightly modified say it is too much power to put down. Most of those owner's say they have 295 rears.

 

Easy button for sure, but it's still double or triple the cost of a reasonably fun Evo build.

I'm sticking with the Evo for the forseeable future, but if the Evo gets totaled for some reason then I'll probably be heading to the Toyota dealership next.

 

Yep thats it. Kinda sad really. No fender rolling, no fender liners getting ruined, just bolt on and go.

They say the S55 engine has a lot more lag and the boost kicks in harder which would make it a lot easier to spin the tires. The power delivery on the Supra is super smooth.

I dont think its double or triple the cost of building an Evo. With buying my Evo and all the mods I put in it, its only $10k less than what I paid for the Supra.

 

Surely those wheels, tires, and coilovers for the Supra weren't free, right?

Obviously, it's not hard to drop $40K or more on Evo mods if you want, but it's not necessary. The Evo platform doesn't need a whole lot of work to be fun. The sky's the limit on mods, but you definitely don't need to spend that much to have fun.

This might be blasphemy on an Evo forum, but I think that a lightly modded Evo is more fun than an all-out build unless you either 1) really, really enjoy working on the car and have free time to do so or 2) have huge amounts of money to pay someone else to do the work and maintenance. Too many of the EvoM build threads go off the rails when people are chasing endless loose ends and repeated rebuilds when they really just wanted to drive a slightly faster car.