New tires & wheels or new suspension?

[Power4]

So spring time is just arriving and now that I have some mod-money to spend I'm thinking about what I should get next. I currently have some winter tires on my stock 17" bullitt wheels and I want to one of two things this spring:

A) Buy 18" wheels (either Shelbys or the stock 18" black bullitts) and put some nice summer/performance all season tires on them. Then I could leave the snows on the 17" wheels and easily swap the whole wheel/tire combo when the winter comes again. I think I'd end up paying around $1,500 for new wheels and tires.

B) Buy the Roush suspension package and have it installed by a dealer or shop and put my stock Pirellis back on the stock 17" wheels. This would probably end up costing me around $2,000.

Which do you guys think I should go for?

 

[DarkFireGT]

How about putting your own suspension package together through a vendor such as stangsuspension.com and installing it yourself. Suspension parts are very easy to install. That will leave you quite a bit of money left. You could at least purchase the wheels, then. Then all you'd have left to purchase would be the tires.

 

[gashog]

Having been faced with a similar dilema, I chose the wheels. I went ahead and ordered the 18" black bullits. Tires will make the most handling difference anyway. If you get yourself some decent tires, you'll be happy.

The suspension pieces will come later for me.

 

[Power4]

How about putting your own suspension package together through a vendor such as stangsuspension.com and installing it yourself. Suspension parts are very easy to install. That will leave you quite a bit of money left. You could at least purchase the wheels, then. Then all you'd have left to purchase would be the tires.

Hmm, do you need any special tools to do it? All I really have is some wrenches and stuff and not much more experience in doing car work other than really simple bolt-ons, wheel changes, and oil changes.

Having been faced with a similar dilema, I chose the wheels. I went ahead and ordered the 18" black bullits. Tires will make the most handling difference anyway. If you get yourself some decent tires, you'll be happy.

What tires did you get with your wheels gashog? I'm kinda leaning more towards the wheel & tire combo because of the added benefit of being able to leave the snow tires on my 17" bullitts and making them winter wheels then being able to quickly swap winter wheels & tires with summer wheels & tires when the seasons change.

 

[bigcat]

check out my write ups listed in my sig to see whats involved in suspension parts swaps. not too may special tools are needed, and all are readily available to rent from a local parts store.

 

[blacksheep06]

How about putting your own suspension package together through a vendor such as stangsuspension.com and installing it yourself. Suspension parts are very easy to install. That will leave you quite a bit of money left. You could at least purchase the wheels, then. Then all you'd have left to purchase would be the tires.

Yea or maybe settle for less in the suspension package.

You can get lowered with FRPP springs, PH bar, Tockico S/S for under $1200 installed.

18x9 black deep dish bullitts with 255/45/18 tires will cost about $1200 from americanmuscle.

That's a total of $2400, just $400 more than the roush suspension package alone .

That's the stuff I have on my car anyway.

 

[gashog]

What tires did you get with your wheels gashog? I'm kinda leaning more towards the wheel & tire combo because of the added benefit of being able to leave the snow tires on my 17" bullitts and making them winter wheels then being able to quickly swap winter wheels & tires with summer wheels & tires when the seasons change.

Tire rack had a great deal on the stock bfgs, 73/tire so i went with those, nothing special really. I don't track my car too often, so ultra high performance wasn't really necessary.