major suspension and wheel upgrade

[petrified.rabbit]

basically, you can look at it in two aspects.

if you lower the center of gravity, then you have less to topple over.. ie less body roll. that goes for springs, and coil overs. benefit of the coil overs is this aspect is adjustable height.

The dampening adjustment is "Sort of" like a deflection range. How much you want to let the suspension move when it moves.
if the inside corner on a turn, you can have it adjusted to it "how much" it will allow that corner of the car to drop (more specifically how fast, for the duration or to outlast the turn). the opposite side will raise in correlation to the drop of the other side.. So the less it drops the less it will raise the other side= less body roll. plus, if you can adjust how fas the other side will raise up. you get more control.

wheels sizes don't matter as much as tires, if you run a 195/50 whether r15 or r16, it will have the same side wall but more/less rolling diameter. but if you were doing a 195/50r15 versus a 205/40r16, then yes sidewall is very different.

[paulsaveo]

if it helps at all, my 04 aveo has 17x7 enkei RS6 rims, tires are somewhat mismatched for the moment, fornt is 205/40 toyo proxes FZ4 (discontinued so rear are different) and rear are 205/40 nitto neogen. they have been on the car a year (about 25,000 miles) toyos are at about 40% tread and nittos are about 75% tread. for suspension I have eibach pro-kit, 1.4 front 1.0 rear mated to KYBS, excel-2 front struts, GR-2 rear shocks. the overal ride is pretty good, 16s with a more sidewall would make for a pretty smooth ride. As far as chrome rims go, they may look good, but chrome is HEAVY

[freddingo]

if it helps at all, my 04 aveo has 17x7 enkei RS6 rims, tires are somewhat mismatched for the moment, fornt is 205/40 toyo proxes FZ4 (discontinued so rear are different) and rear are 205/40 nitto neogen. they have been on the car a year (about 25,000 miles) toyos are at about 40% tread and nittos are about 75% tread. for suspension I have eibach pro-kit, 1.4 front 1.0 rear mated to KYBS, excel-2 front struts, GR-2 rear shocks. the overal ride is pretty good, 16s with a more sidewall would make for a pretty smooth ride. As far as chrome rims go, they may look good, but chrome is HEAVY

Any end link kit? When does the car actually need it other than loooow on coil overs?