How do wide body kits work?
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How do wide body kits work?
I think it's a stupid question but can't figure it out for the life of me. I know the body get gets tacked on but what about the wide stance. I find it hard to believe its either a spacer or crazy offset. So how is it done? I searched and couldn't fin anything specific. I found wide body kits with stock wheels, terrible idea, and found those that look good. What did mad mike do on his? What do non-professional drivers do?
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but crazy offsets it is. mad mike was running 18x11 and 18x12 -35 with his weds to accommodate his widebody. and if you didn't know, the oem fenders need to be cut up or super flared to avoid rubbing, or else what would the point of a wide body be?
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If you want to do it right have somebody fab wider A-arms and use longer shocks or shock and steering rack extensions.
Different ETs or spacers are only good for fine-tuning (ie 0.5mm, 1mm, 2.5mm 5mm spacers).
Different ETs or spacers are only good for fine-tuning (ie 0.5mm, 1mm, 2.5mm 5mm spacers).
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Plenty of track race cars use spacers. Besides, the odds of someone actually installing a wide body kit are 1 in 100,0000 so it's a moot issue anyway.
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Spacers are so terrible for your car that a much desired, highly respected brand that sells rather expensive sports cars uses a 25mm spacer to push it's wheels out to fill the fenders instead of having new wheels cast for that particular model, and have been for almost 20 years.
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9k a friend of mine (hes a member here) has a custom all metal widebody 8. he asked me not to post pics because hes still getting somethings worked out with his turbo kit. hes the same member that sued scott and forced him to close his shop in fl. he bought the car new in 04 and it has been a very long project. it spent a lot of time in florida (used as a demo w/o his knowledge) then went to ny for the bodywork
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he lives about 10 minutes from me and hes gonna use it as a show car mostly. lots of tvs and stero ****, airbags, ect. its probably the lowest mileage 04 on this board.
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he got it new in 04 and its still not done lol. however it spent a ton of time in fl as i said while some pos known here to some ripped my buddy off for a lot of time and money
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^+1. It seems I wasn't very clear before and many people seem to think I dislike spacers, which isn't true! I was a little angsty because of traffic that day, so I apologize. I was a bit hot tempered that day and came in swinging. An extreme example of what I was saying not to do is use spacers to push out a stock width wheel to make a wide body kit look good. My personal view is that if you can fit a wheel without using spacers you should do so. I know nobody who has had trouble with spacers (irl). I suppose I am trying to say is that needing to fit something and wanting to fit something are two different scenarios which is really up to you to decide.
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