Styling Exercise, Radiused Wheel Wells Options

[Howard]

Not really looking for comments on the car, know you guys can bash with the best, but what to you think of the wheel well treatment? Can do big tires w/o big flares.

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[ewdysar]

QUOTE (boboli914@att.net @ Mar 17 2006, 11:52 AM)

The front wheels look lost in those wells.

A while back I read somewhere, I think it was a tire site, that if the gap between fender and tread is greater than the sidewall height, your car will look funny. So really low profile tires need smaller gaps to look right, the place that I read this was justifying lowering kits as required by low profile tires. Since then, I've noticed that this general rule of thumb seems to work. In this case the front needs to be lower, the rim needs to be smaller (more sidewall) or the fender opening needs to be smaller (less gap). I've seen some cars that look goofy even if this rule is followed, so it is not gospel.

Check it out when you're driving, it even works on trucks, lifted trucks need more sidewall, tall rims need alot less gap. My Mitsu Mirage has cavernous fender wells for the stock rims and tires, it's right on the verge of breaking the rule.

Eric