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Old 04-27-06, 08:31 PM
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a fellow listmember is selling a set of wheels and tires with 245/35/20 falken ST115's in the front, and 275/35/20 falken FK451's in the rear. the reason it's like this is because you cannot get ether tire in the other size... ie. the ST115 dosen't come in a 275, and vice versa with the FK451.

the wheels are very expensive, and it would be awhile before i could afford new tires... will running this sort of setup cause any issues i should be aware of?

this is meant for a 99 gs400... thanks in advance.
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i ran different tires front and back before, for normal driving it's no problem. but if you take your car out hard, that could pose quite a bit of problem coz' of different tractions
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will running a supra LSD be an problem?
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will running a supra LSD be an problem?
mainly it still has to do with how you drive (aggressively or not)
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right now i have an understeer problem. my gs has a trd blue swaybar in the front, but a stock one in the rear (not sure why the previous owner did that). if i didn't keep it slow it would plow right through a corner. now with the LSD, it will try to snap oversteer when i give it throttle.
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