GT woes Options

[TonyAKAVW]

So my 914 has finally succumbed to the oxide disease and I am in need of a new roller. I've got a ton of good parts form my 73 chassis, so I don't want to just throw that all away. In the long term my goal is to put together some kind of GT-lookalike with either a 6 cylinder Porsche engine or something else? Anyway, I certainly don't mind having a stock 914 for the time being, but lets say I were to come across a roller that had GT fenders on it. Lets assume this was a good roller with no major issues and stock in every way except the fender flares. What am I to do?

In the one case I have a roller with all my parts transferred over which looks really silly because I don't have wide wheels/tires. I figure I have the following options...

1. Spacers - really unattractive idea to me, both in terms of safety and looks
2. Get really wide wheels - too expensive for me now, because it would also require a new 911 front suspension and so on. Can't afford all of that at the moment
3. Get some more reasonable wheels like 7-8 inch phone dials and minimal spacers - still expensive and probalby need a 911 front suspension still
4. take off the flares and use the fenders from my current car, returning the car to its stock look.
5. Wait for another roller.

Since I've had my 914 apart for 6 months I figure I can wait a while longer for another roller to come up. So thats the most tempting thing to do now. On the other hand I could remove the fenders btu I'm wondering how messy that is to de-fenderize a car...

Anyone have suggestions?

-Tony

[TonyAKAVW]

No, its not a light blue one...

Why would I take the flares off? I'd prefer not to, but a roller is a roller, and they are fiberglass flares... If they were steel I wouldn't think of it, but fiberglass makes me at consider it. Here's another problem I see...

To really make use of flares, you need wide tires and wheels. Especially for the rear, you ought to have like 9 or 10 inch wide tires. My little 1.8 will have a heck of a time pushing around anything with that rolling resistance. So then I need a 6 cylinder engine or a V8, and then I need a 911 front suspension and brakes, and we are getting up to a full conversion whereas right now I'd just like to get back on the road in a 914 period.

So yes, the flares are definitely cool, but they are costly, both in time and money. with these less expensive wheels that Mueller posted I have more reason to go with it, but it just all depends... I can always add flares later to a non-flared car.

-Tony