I took it for blast round the port hills on thursday, feels real sharp- steering feels alot lighter, minimal body roll. It sticks to the road so well thru the corners, way less twitchy in a straight line, luvn it.
The last bit of decent road it saw was last years Akaroa cruise, and it only had 2" blocks and a respray back then, so really looking fwd to Akaroa this year.
I did notice quite a bit of drive shaft and diff noise under engine braking down hill on thurs tho,
and the odd bit of pinging noise from the engine on some up hill pulls
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Interesting numbers Kitch, With the A15 and 5spd when i still had the 165/70/13's I was getting 3500rpm @100kph on the gps (130 on the speedo) , even tho its at 3800ish @100kph now, that 300 odd rpm extra feels more like 1000. To make it worse the exhaust gets a weird reverb/resonance around those revs too.
Will def be looking into some diff options.
Also yeah the 3" blocks are not exactly legit, tho i have heard of them passing cert if two link style tramp rods are installed.
The rear leaves have already been re-set as far as they would go without wreaking the spring effect.
In the future I may look at doing this kind of mod: From that to this And Dan, there was only one brand of tyre that I could get my hands on in that size, it was a toss up between the 165/50 and the 155/55 http://www.yhi.co.nz/tyre/ACHILLES/ATR-K_ECONOMIST" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I got them through Mag n Turbo.