First let me say that if what I'm asking has been covered, I apologize. Feel free to just point me to it. I've been doing searches for things, but it's hard since this is a forum for ALL Jaguar and not just F Types. I just came over from the Corvette forum so it's specific to the car, not the maker. Anyway, I recently moved to Denver from Charleston SC and I've discovered the Z06 doesn't handle the snow so well. Despite being an automatic, I decided on the F Type R because it's the closest thing to the Z06 I could get that was also AWD. I do need some help getting started with mods though. I'm in the process of ordering wheels for my summer set of tires, but haven't found a ton of pics of F Types with various wheels. I normally see that as a sticky thread on car forums, and if I missed it here, please point me to it. I also haven't found a ton in the way of body mods. Specifically I'm looking for a front splitter (preferably carbon fiber) and a rear diffuser (also CF). I've found a nice Brembo brake kit, but am certainly open to advice on that as well. Is there a thread (sticky or otherwise) that talks about this stuff? I've been told (by a Jag dealer trying to upsell me, so took it with a massive grain of salt) that tunes for these guys can get big power, but I've found reading around this forum that seems to be the opposite of the truth. I would like to tune to get rid of some of the SUPER annoying nannies that come along with driving an auto, like having to put my foot on the brake to put it in gear, not being able to put it in gear with the door open, and even having to press that button on the front of the shifter, if any of that is possible. I would also be quite receptive to finding out what some of the first things people mod are and any suggestions I haven't covered. #1 on my list though, is getting a CF front splitter, and then air bag suspension, if anyone has suggestions for those. Thanks all for reading and I appreciate any advice/info!! (unless the advice is something like "don't do mods. this car is fine as it is" as that's not really helpful)

 

I know many people compare F-type to Corvette, and there are similarities. However, mod scene is not one of them. Your options for F-type mods are limited to tune, lighter disks, lowering, and swapping some Project 7 parts.

I would strongly advise against bags, F-type handles well as a sports car and throwing it all away with bags seems like a bad choice. If you want to lower, go with adjustable coilovers or progressive springs.

 

Believe me, I'd prefer not to pay the 4 or 5 times higher price for air suspension if I could help it. The only reason I want bags is to be able to raise it on the fly, like when I come in my driveway. It's very steep and will scrape if I lower it. My Z06 scrapes now and it's just lowered on the stock lowering bolts, but I have scrape armor on the splitter. I have seen a couple of aftermarket CF splitters for the F Type, but they were for base model. I'd really like to get that Lister 666 from bumper and splitter, but I haven't seen that for sale anywhere as an aftermarket part

 

I can relate to scraping, I have to be careful with my non-lowered car... Have you considered backing into your driveway to avoid scraping?

 

Oh it's way worse backing in. If I back in, even the Jag scrapes, which it does not do now. Coming in at an angle is the best way to do it. It's a stupid steep driveway. I'm renting now since I didn't want to buy not knowing the area, so when I build a house next year, I'll make sure to get a flat driveway, but there are still TONS of places/occasions to want to raise the front, at least. Basically I either need to stay stock ride height and look like I drive a pickup truck, or go air suspension, so seems an obvious choice. Anyway, anyone know anything about an aftermarket splitter option? Or anything else I asked about? Or just general notes/tips/advice about mods?

 

The Jag cf front spoiler on the XKR-S at least were very prone to cracking and couldnt be patched on my understanding. So each whack of a driveway was about a $4000 problem. Personally I wouldnt lower and do the cf spoiler, my car is stock and I hit the sacrificial guard underneath quite often. Sure lowering looks a little meaner, but if you get 21's and oversize your tyres so that the arches are really filled out it looks 95% as good. Personally I would start with forged 21's and wider tyres, and look to get the light rotors (check the wortec thread). I only have the wheels etc on mine and just crossed drilled and slotted rotors (no weight savings on the latter), but they look fantastic and the wheel change made the car handle heaps better. I went with vorsteiner vff103 similar to this https://wheelfront.com/cars/jaguar-f...iner-v-ff-103/

 

I'm actually glad you mentioned the wider wheels. The place I'm currently going through, that got me my aftermarket wheels on my Z06, says I can't go any wider than a 305, 315 if I don't mind some rubbing here and there. Is that true? I wouldn't mind some 21s with oversized tires, but that messes with the speedo. Suppose I could fix that with a tune, but also 21" tires are a bit harder to come by. I know all the 20" sizes because I've had to shop around for them before. What width tires could I do on 21s in the rear without rolling the fenders? The F Type in that link looks SICK! And that's not lowered??? Also I found this front splitter that fits the R, but I don't love it https://www.vicrez.com/vicrez-jaguar...t-lip-vz100834

 

Hi. Sorry when I said oversize I meant wider not higher. This is mine not lowered with the same wheels. The 21's were easy to get and actually pretty cheap (Michelin PSS's). Beautiful ride, too, better than the OEM P zero 19's. The rears are 305's from memory

 

Do you have more photos of your car. I like the black A-pillars and it looks like there is something toward the hatch. Did you paint it black. Looks great.

 

Rather than muck with suspension air bags on the Jag, could you fit something similar to this to your driveway apron while you live there?

https://www.bridjit.com/

That was the first of many hits when I searched 'Driveway Apron Ramp'. There are other styles.




I feel for ya, when I bought our first exotic, I scraped on the driveway apron as I drove it to its new home.

 

SS4PK, here you go. I had it done in gloss black wrap, cost about $300. It has been on for maybe 18 months, no drama.

I love it and it would be the first thing I would do to a replacement though there were some on the forum who were not impressed at all. To be honest, I got it because I had a hard on for the db11 and the black flattens out the roofline and makes the car look a bit lower and meaner. Shout out to Dan for his contribution to the planning phase.

 

That looks good,but still has a big wheel gap and a ton of ground clearance. I just don't like having that on my cars. Ok, so 305s are all we can fit. I'm not sure if I'd call an extra 10mm wider "oversized" but I suppose technically they are. The 21s definitely look good and that color sets off the red nicely! I definitely gotta drop it though. If you can fit more than 1 finger in there, it's too much of a gap. (no "that's what she said "jokes!)

I appreciate the input and suggestion, but as I mentioned there are MANY other instances (speed bumps, business driveways, driving in the snow, yada yada yada) where I'll need to raise up. If I didn't have the magnetic ride on the Z06, I would have gotten air suspension on that, but it's a stupid expensive suspension so I didn't want to mess with it. The Jag doesn't have that, so I don't really mind. And air suspension is actually quite good for handling. Just as good as some top end coilovers. Anyway, suspension is the least of my "concerns" as I can find that and get it done lots of places. It's stuff like the front splitter, rear diffuser, tune, CAI... stuff like that, that I'm worried about. I'd LOVE to have my front end looking like this

 

Also, and this is something that would come down the road, does anyone know if you can put the manual from the S in the R? It's probably cost prohibitive, but I'd really like to have this thing in manual

 

Not possible without yuge expense, and it might not even be possible at all.
Plenty here would also like a manual V8 but none have ever found a way to do it.
It's a toss up as to which way would be the "most possible", put a manual trans in an R or put a V8 in a manual trans (V6) car.

 

Well, nothing is impossible. B is for Build put a Chevy LS engine and a manual Lambo trans in a Huracan, so it's definitely possible. I wouldn't be surprised if it's cost prohibitive, but I would consider a $10k bill 100% worth it

 

Try 10 times that amount at least to do it an F-Type!
The hardest thing would be getting all the various electronic modules to speak to each other properly without fatal glitches and I suspect that would not be possible.

 

Ok. No need to go down that rabbit hole then. There are a dozen things on my list before that anyway, Front splitter, rear diffuser, maybe different wheels now that I'm thinking 21s, CAI, tune...

 

First mod on the list should be - shed unessecary weight before adding loads of extra weight from goodies!
Battery, front diff and drive shafts , rotors etc

 

Yeah, a local owner put a modern Chevy crate engine into a 70's TVR. He only needed to split the car in half and increase width 6-inches to do it.
He is still dealing with ECU glitches 18 months later...

 

Call Chris at Mina Galleries in Los Angeles. He often has parts that don't appear on his webpage or will make parts. I have gotten many for my XKR over the years.