New to me: 16 F-Type R
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New to me: 16 F-Type R
Hello all,
I have purchased my first Jaguar ever today, a 2016 F Type R Convertible. Black on black. I've always owned German, but thought I'd give Jaguar a chance so here I am! Excited to see what this car and the forums have in store.
If anyone has any suggestions on first modifications, I'd love to hear them!
Cheers!
I have purchased my first Jaguar ever today, a 2016 F Type R Convertible. Black on black. I've always owned German, but thought I'd give Jaguar a chance so here I am! Excited to see what this car and the forums have in store.
If anyone has any suggestions on first modifications, I'd love to hear them!
Cheers!
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Hello all,
I have purchased my first Jaguar ever today, a 2016 F Type R Convertible. Black on black. I've always owned German, but thought I'd give Jaguar a chance so here I am! Excited to see what this car and the forums have in store.
If anyone has any suggestions on first modifications, I'd love to hear them!
Cheers!
I have purchased my first Jaguar ever today, a 2016 F Type R Convertible. Black on black. I've always owned German, but thought I'd give Jaguar a chance so here I am! Excited to see what this car and the forums have in store.
If anyone has any suggestions on first modifications, I'd love to hear them!
Cheers!
Number two mod, swap out the incredibly dusty OEM brake pads for low dust Porterfield R4S.
Number three mod, fit lowering springs - Eibach, H&R, VAP - to reduce the OEM 4WD-like wheel arch gaps.
Number four mod, fit wheel spacers - 15 mm, 17 mm, 20 mm - to pump the tyres out into the fenders and eliminate the 1970s tucked under look.
Number five mod, fit a VAP lower/crank pulley and tune to take it from a measly 550 hp to 620+ hp (but you might want to get used to and bored with the OEM tune first before you do this!).
Number six mod, swap out the very heavy OEM wheels for some lightweight after-market two or three piece forged ones.
Number seven mod, swap out the incredibly heavy OEM brake rotors for two piece light weight Wortec "sun cut" rotors.
That'll do for now, several thousand $ already in that list!
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Welcome to the forums vndr09,
Good to have you with us.
Follow this link https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...-x350-x358-28/ to the F-Type forum for help, advice and information. You can also use the US Southwest Region forum by following this link https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/us-southwest-37/ to find other members in your region.
Enjoy the forums.
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Good to have you with us.
Follow this link https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...-x350-x358-28/ to the F-Type forum for help, advice and information. You can also use the US Southwest Region forum by following this link https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/us-southwest-37/ to find other members in your region.
Enjoy the forums.
Graham
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Not much info yet on the car. It's all stock, 2016 R (AWD), convertible, with the extended leather and vision packs and a couple other goodies. So far, I've only enjoyed washing/waxing, cleaning up the interior and under hood. Other than that, only 'mod' so far has been removing the engine cover! Luckily, the car already has far superior tires to the Pirellis, however, not as great as the MPS4S's, so once these die down (they're still at 7/32's all around) in a year or so, I'll upgrade. As far as spacers, I'll post this question in the F Type section, but does anyone know if 15mm or 17mm is preferential? I do plan on dropping the car ~1" on springs, so that could be a factor. Also, do any of the aftermarket spring choices affect the adaptive suspension that is customizable in i-Dynamic? Or does that just change the shock/strut responsiveness? Thanks in advance! Here are my only 3 pics:
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Not much info yet on the car. It's all stock, 2016 R (AWD), convertible, with the extended leather and vision packs and a couple other goodies. So far, I've only enjoyed washing/waxing, cleaning up the interior and under hood. Other than that, only 'mod' so far has been removing the engine cover! Luckily, the car already has far superior tires to the Pirellis, however, not as great as the MPS4S's, so once these die down (they're still at 7/32's all around) in a year or so, I'll upgrade. As far as spacers, I'll post this question in the F Type section, but does anyone know if 15mm or 17mm is preferential? I do plan on dropping the car ~1" on springs, so that could be a factor. Also, do any of the aftermarket spring choices affect the adaptive suspension that is customizable in i-Dynamic? Or does that just change the shock/strut responsiveness? Thanks in advance! Here are my only 3 pics:
The only problem with 17 mm spacers is they are not a standard size so are harder to find and/or more expensive than the very common 15 mm spacers.
Lowering springs won't effect the adaptive suspension at all, heaps here have fitted Eibach or H&R or VAP springs and no-one has ever had a problem with the adaptive suspension. However many of us have found that fitting lowering springs makes the suspension a bit "bouncy" when you are going over road undulations, dips and rises at speed, with the suspension set on "Normal", but changing to Dynamic fixes 90% of the bounce.
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Thanks for the response, OzXFR. From what I've found, the 15mm spacers require the grinding, just like you said. However, the forum seems to be split about 50/50% on whether or not 17mm spacers will require grinding. Do you happen to know for sure? I don't mind spending extra for the 17mm spacers to get a ~2mm more aggressive stance, as long as it alleviates the need for grinding, and won't have any rubbing issues with springs.
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Thanks for the response, OzXFR. From what I've found, the 15mm spacers require the grinding, just like you said. However, the forum seems to be split about 50/50% on whether or not 17mm spacers will require grinding. Do you happen to know for sure? I don't mind spending extra for the 17mm spacers to get a ~2mm more aggressive stance, as long as it alleviates the need for grinding, and won't have any rubbing issues with springs.
I have Blade wheels which as far as I know are the only OEM F-Type wheels that work with 15 mm spacers with no grinding so I have no direct experience of grinding.
See this recently updated thread for some more comments: https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/f...pacers-224170/
As I said at post number 18 in that thread there is a quick, easy and free way to check before you shell out on spacers or grinding:
1. Measure the length of an OEM wheel stud.
2. Measure the depth of one of the voids/hollows in your wheels.
3. Subtract 2. from 1.
4. The result will tell you the minimum thickness of spacer you need to clear the voids without any cutting or grinding of the OEM wheel studs.
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