Neodeuccio;1286977 said:
Since we're on the topic...
I've see a few cars with wide body setups that are absolutely beautiful. Tekdues' Project Cherry is probably the nicest I've seen, but my question is this: does anyone make a wide-body kit that doesn't require extensive body work to install? I would think someone would offer this, but I haven't had any luck finding one.
Any thoughts?
Because of the way the rear fenders are designed on the MkIII (and most cars for that matter), you're forced to put some sort of cover onto the sheet metal of the fender... thus, where most of your costs come from: blending, filling, sanding, prepping, and painting.
Also, most (if not all) MA70's (MkIII's with a 7M) are widebody already. This is a consideration if you're taking a factory widebody and making it wider because of the way the body lines are going flow between the back of the door and the substantially wider fender.
Tekdues's widebody does a good job of hiding the effect with very nice body work and a great paintjob... but if you look closely, you can see how the body panel between the rear wheels and the back of the door is very steep to take up this difference. Randy did an amazing job to make such a difficult situation look that good.
The front is easy, just throw on some new fenders, S2 for instance, are readily available from Japan.
IMHO, you have to ask yourself what your intentions are... do you want wideass tires or the widebody look complete with low offset rims? If you want wide rubber, rolling and pulling the fenders could stuff 265 front and 295 rear tires with alot of work and the right offsets. Godfather style overfenders could get you even more. If you want the look and low offset rims, then you're looking at serious coin to get it to look good.
