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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. |
ottox914 |
Nov 23 2004, 10:20 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 |
Thanks all for the replies-
John Kelly- I expected you'd suggest d-i-y in metal, and while that would be cool, my partner has more money than time, and spent his formative years beating out flares on 356's, and would rather buy it than build it. Mike Mueller- I'm working on adding your bearing kits into the budget, as well as CFR front struts and rear re-location kits. Your idea of checking into cost for wheels/tires is a good one, but again, for partner this will be his 5th Porsche, to go along w/the Cayanne, 930 turbo, 993 twin turbo, and current 914 road racer. If we were looking to rule the world, new suspension systems F and R would be in order, but the plans at this time are a locally FTD car, not national. He checked into wheels/tires and told me to spec the car for 16 x 12's, after several long talks with Tom from Mid-Atlantic, where he gets his road racing skins, so here we go... unless the handling balance would suggest otherwise, we'd like to go same size F and R. The sheridan kits are interesting, but I'm a little concerned that for the short to medium length courses that our club puts on, (45 sec to 1:05 or so, depending on the lot used) that to much meat = to wide of a line. The GT2 fenders that the fordahl/leeds car wears from Otto's are in the running also. Thanks and keep the comments coming- |
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