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Written by Jack DeRyke
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You might spend around $4000 for a set of 17" or 18" wheels and maybe $1000-$1200 more for V, W or Z-rated tires to fit. You mount them and immediately notice the stock brakes look ridiculously small showing thru those shiny eye-catching spokes.... so out goes another $1500 for a set of big 'racing' brakes. Driving the car, you find that the extra weight of the big wide aluminum wheels, giant tires and big brakes has destroyed the stock handling.... which gets fixed with a set of $1500 full-adjustable coil-over shocks and heavier springs, plus a custom set of upper a-arms or suspension bushings (or both), to apply more caster to the assembly so the wide tires don't 'tramline' on crowned or bumpy roads. Then the cornering increase from the big tires begins cracking the paint from body flex.... a set of front & rear frame stiffeners and a good bay-brace from any of the vendors stops that- for an additional $1000-$1500. Now you're all done... and in the hole for roughly $10K for those 'big tires'! Some handyman owners can lo-ball the estimates a little but most can't or won't. This was my first mention of the "slippery-slope" one can jump onto with Pantera modifications.
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