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Flares and wheel size |
ottox914 |
Nov 22 2004, 10:45 PM
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The glory that once was. Group: Members Posts: 1,302 Joined: 15-December 03 From: Mahtomedi, MN Member No.: 1,438 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
Friend of mine and I are building a EMod 914. Class rules are 2.0 and above for motor, and 1500 min. wt. We have located a car with a well built 2.4 4 cyl, 2% or less leak down on all cyls, close ratio LSD trans, already stripped and caged, about 1650 pounds, all steel body. Currently has rabbit flares and runs 7" fuchs on pure slicks, 7" cookies for rain.
It needs more rubber. We'd like to go 16 x 10" or 12" rims all around, and run some pure slicks. No D.O.T. tires here. Wheels will be 3pc, build to whatever offset is needed. Would like to keep the car as narrow as we can, and the tires as wide as we can. Question of the day, how big of a rim/tire will the "GT" flares swallow up? Who else has experience w/other flare/wheel set ups? We could go bigger, to a GT2 flare set, and have the car look a little like the "Rudy" car on the Otto's of venice web page, except in speed yellow. That should swallow up 12's, as that is what the Otto's car runs, and these are the flares on the Fordahl/Leeds 914 that runs 10's. They need to run 10's for class track width limitations. Can there be such a thing as to much rubber for an auto cross car? I could see on a road racer there would be a point of diminishing returns with aero considerations, but for a pure auto x car? Any advice from those who have been there, done that would be welcomed. |
Mueller |
Nov 23 2004, 06:01 PM
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914 Freak! Group: Members Posts: 17,146 Joined: 4-January 03 From: Antioch, CA Member No.: 87 Region Association: None |
you are only going to find "standard" size steel GT flares, you want them wider, you cut and weld new material to them.....they "start" at close to $1000 for a set of 4
'glass flares start at about $100 each and go up from there not sure how wide these are, but they look sorta cool: Fiberworks 914 flares Check out Ultimate914.com, he has what you need to cover those wheels...read the information page, tells you exactly what will work. QUOTE Would like to keep the car as narrow as we can, and the tires as wide as we can. .....unless you ditch the rear trailing arms and go with a different design rear suspension (993, Boxster) you'll have to run rear flares that are at least 5" wider than the stock narrow body have you priced tires in the size you want?? you might end up changing your mind (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) also, you might want to call the tire manufactures or someone to find out if tires in that size are not going to be phased out soon....17" rims might be a better choice. |
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