Wider than it is Long: A build thread.

[aLaFleur]

I'm getting excited! Looks so nuts.

[JonD]

HO...LY...SHIT <3

This is going to be EPIC. SUB'D

[MrDanguy]

This is going to be amazing once it's finished.

[Tomahawk]

Epic!

[scweet14]

<3

[rsingh3g]

Let me see this damn thing. I love those wheels

[Strawhat]

Let me see this damn thing. I love those wheels

I will! It's seriously close to being done.
I have to take it up to Spartanburg to get everything welded back straight.

The wheels are a labor of love. I wish the color scheme was a little better, and I wish I wasn't running 38mm adapters in the back, so I could have extra lip. lol

[DeeAOne]

Hats off to you cooking this up yourself. Good to see people still doing custom work!

[05subysti]

ryan your car is an inspiration and will deff be a reference to when i do my wide body. maybe if your bazerias were 18x13 with a 7 inch lip id be down to trade

[Funtington]

I don't know if I am the only one, but it looks like the door opens, and the fender goes with it, and I think that is bad ass haha. carry on/

[MadMax]

This is really awesome, love all the custom work

The Weds look beautiful on there

[rsingh3g]

I will! It's seriously close to being done.
I have to take it up to Spartanburg to get everything welded back straight.

The wheels are a labor of love. I wish the color scheme was a little better, and I wish I wasn't running 38mm adapters in the back, so I could have extra lip. lol

We'll have to go on a shoot and get Alex to come along as well

[softg]

this has so much awesome to it. keep it up, can't wait to see it painted and rolling

I wonder how much room you have on the interior of those fenders, you think you could run 12.5's or 13's? how much fender have you actually added?

[Strawhat]

Thank you guys! I kinda was hoping no one would notice their Weds, but oh well.

I don't know if I am the only one, but it looks like the door opens, and the fender goes with it, and I think that is bad ass haha. carry on/

The door is definitely part of the fender. If you open it, you can see all the tread of the tire. lol

ryan your car is an inspiration and will deff be a reference to when i do my wide body. maybe if your bazerias were 18x13 with a 7 inch lip id be down to trade

Man don't tempt me, or I'll order new lips!

We'll have to go on a shoot and get Alex to come along as well

For sure man, his car is about to get so much cool shit done to it!

this has so much awesome to it. keep it up, can't wait to see it painted and rolling

I wonder how much room you have on the interior of those fenders, you think you could run 12.5's or 13's? how much fender have you actually added?

I could definitely run 13's in the back. The front has turned out to be not nearly as wide as the back.
I'm running 11.5's, which started life as 8's and 9's whose offsets would have cleared the suspension without camber bolts.
Basically, I would need some aftermarket arms and rear camber plates to run 13's. The front would be pushing it, but with perfect offsets and tires I could run a 12.5 I'm confident.

[Strawhat]

So I got to go to the shop two days in a row, super excited!
Probably has something to do with the wheels finally being on the car.

The fronts still need to be a little less aggressive, so again, I think I'm gonna pick up some 15mm adapters to replace me 20mm ones.




The rear was not low at all. Had two finger gap and was total bullshit- had to fix it.
Took me about 4 hours of "look at it, take the wheel off and cut it, put the wheel back on, look at it, repeat" to get it where it is now.
(These pictures are aired up)




The rear door won't open or close when it's aired all the way down.


SO I realized the door that I widened is part of the problem. Grinded that down, along with cutting a lot out of the door jamb, and it finally was cut enough to where I can cut no more! haha



The way the fender came back into the bumper was too tight, and the tire was getting caught on it. As much as I didn't want to do this (have to redo the rear of the fender and bumper now), it made the wheel fit, and helped with the whole "fender edge leaning inward" problem I was having, so overall a good decision.





I think the rear looks okay. But the tire to fender clearance is still like 3 credit cards.
It looks good, but for being on air, and all the work I've done, I really want them to touch. But that's where I'm at, at the moment.