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post Jan 20 2003, 10:11 AM
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I'm considering doing a wide arch conversion to my fourteen and was weighing up the options.

Does anyone have pictures of the 914 with Rabbitt (Golf) flares?

Ideally I'm looking to get 17 x 7 or 8 at the front and 17 x 8 or 9 in the rear.
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post Jan 20 2003, 11:19 AM
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I remember seeing those somewhere...

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post Jan 20 2003, 11:23 AM
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Does anyone have any finished car pics?

This isn't bad looking.
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post Jan 20 2003, 03:46 PM
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I have pics (it was done by my business partners body shop), but I dont have access to them right this minute. Give me a few hours today and I will locate them.

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post Jan 20 2003, 09:31 PM
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Ok.. here is where Jason got the idea: This is Cockroach.Ed and Jan Mayo's autoX car that was built orginally by Rich Lambert. The pic was taken at the 1999 Mid US Ramble. Jason's "painted" pics are on another computer to far away from me right now to get them. I thought I had posted them on Pelican..but cant seem to find them.
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post Jan 20 2003, 09:34 PM
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Jason and I test fitted a 17x9 under the flare (Porsche 993 stock rear wheel) It looks awesome and will work very well. The car has a killer updated look to it without being gawdy. It looks normal. All Euro built cars use a round fenderwell lip mounted high the body. Jason opted to have these mounted higher on the car to give a lower looking stance.. it worked.

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post Jan 20 2003, 09:51 PM
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so, Brad, I've got 951 fuch's 8's for the front and some of TRE's 16x9's that look like 10's, he builds these from 2 16x6's, for the rear.

Do you think they'll fit?
Track car, I wanna run 225/245 fronts and 245/265 rears, any problems?

thanks all, this looks like an intersting way to get steel.
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post Jan 20 2003, 09:57 PM
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I know which wheels the TRE's are. We have not checked the rear yet on Jason's car. The key behind using these flares: they are everywhere in the junkyards. Jason paid 20$ for them from Pick-A-Part. I personally would cheat and not weld them on, but instead use the plastic black strip they normally have covering them. The black plastic screws to the steel and covers it.... Sooo you could just skip the steel and cut your fenders for the plastic pieces and just screw them on (the screws go underneath and would not be seen)

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post Jan 20 2003, 10:05 PM
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What years will work?

Is it rabbit/gti - 85 ?
golf/git 86-92 ?
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post Jan 20 2003, 10:06 PM
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hey man, can you change your avatar?

It's making me think about Sheridan's narrow body too much!
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post Jan 20 2003, 10:19 PM
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That is Sheridans WIDE body..LOL

I dont recall the years.. I'll ask Jason.

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post Jan 21 2003, 03:15 AM
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Guys,

Thanks for the pictures so far, if there is any chance of posting any more pictures with rear arches/side/front/rear angles would be great.

Rabbit (Golf over here) arches should be easy to come by as they are/were common place in the UK. That is unlike the 914, were we only have about 200 cars in any condition.

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post Jan 21 2003, 03:22 AM
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Crawf,

I'll have some more pictures for you later today. I'm making the owner go out to his garage and shoot some pics for me.

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post Jan 21 2003, 04:13 AM
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Cheers for your help Brad, now that's what I call service. Now what's all this about you being an a-hole? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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post Jan 21 2003, 08:37 AM
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Just a thought. What do you think about using the plastic that runs across the bottom on the 90 and later VWs. It fits on to the bottom part of the plastic flare. I have a 91 jetta and Brads idea of using the plastic sounds really good. Of course you would have to shorten it some.

Also if you just smoothed out the plastic and painted it I think it would look pretty good.
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post Jan 27 2003, 11:52 AM
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Cheers for all the info so far.

Brad - is there any news on the further pictures yet?

Am I right in saying that these are mk1 rabbit flares? 76-83, are they off the GTI or any rabbit. I'm gonna go to a breakers and have a hunt around so I need some help in what I'm looking for. Also as mentioned before I was looking to fit 7.5x 17 (f) and 9x 17 ®, I am planning on doing a five lug conversion and wanted to know what offset/backspacing and wheel options were best for this scenerio.

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post Jan 27 2003, 01:34 PM
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btw. jason used the front rabbit flares all around.
they have a smoother arch, the back one's looked kind of funky.

sooo, front rabbit flares for all 4 corners ...
looks great!

brad, where are the pics ????

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post Jan 27 2003, 01:38 PM
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Jason hasnt shot the new pics. The ones I shot are sitting on a computer in Scott Yeamans garage collecting dust. I need to get the computer from Scott. We have the suspension off of Jason's car for the conversion to 5 lug so.. you dont have a good reference for the pics.

I spoke with Jason about 30 minutes ago and he said he didnt know what year the car was that he pulled them from.

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post Jan 27 2003, 02:04 PM
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I found 'em.
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