birdii
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| posted on 14/7/11 at 11:37 AM |
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Rear track too wide for the arches
I've really messed up with this one! Spent hours and hours refurbing a set of wheels only to find what i should have realised ages ago - the
offset is wrong!
I'm using a GTS dedion axle with sierra running gear and GTS arches (29cm wide). The wheels i wanted to use were a set of lazer 13"
alloys with an offset of 19mm.
It did cross my mind that the width may be an issue but i thought that i was using pretty narrow rubber (185's) it wouldn't be far out - i
was wrong!
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Rear Wheel Arch 1
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Rear Wheel Arch 2
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Gutted now because i was really chuffed with the wheels and don't really see any way to use them as im not prepared to go chopping the arches
up.
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scutter
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| posted on 14/7/11 at 11:53 AM |
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Why not try to make some horseshoe shaped spacers out if marine plywood and place them between the arch and main body. it's been done before on
here.
ATB Dan.
The less I worked, the more i liked it.
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zilspeed
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| posted on 14/7/11 at 12:02 PM |
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Cut the arches down the centre and widen them.
That is the only correct answer.
Fella I know fitted Barmby mag split rims to his Indy and thay're much wider than what was on there previously.
He widened the wheelarches (actually just used a bit of ally pop riveted in place) and it looks the nuts.
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Irony
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| posted on 14/7/11 at 12:03 PM |
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Makes me happy a little bit to see that it's not just me thats wastes endless hours on something only to realise its wrong.
I do what he said ^^^^^^ except I'd probably use some black foamalux from these people
http://www.trentplastics.co.uk/online
It comes in 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,10,12,15,18,25mm sheets
I might then look through the Woolies stock for a suitable rubber trim
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Wadders
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| posted on 14/7/11 at 04:04 PM |
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As above, i split my arches down the centre, widened them with an ally strip and pop rivets, then filled front and back with
bridging filler, sanded them down and then skimmed with normal filler and painted.
only other option is to find some wider arches, i think Dax might do some.
Al.
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chris mason
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| posted on 14/7/11 at 04:22 PM |
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Mk sell wider rear arches as well as the standard ones, have a look at dannys race car 
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PeteS2k
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| posted on 15/7/11 at 05:23 AM |
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Not familiar with your kit, but it looks to me from the pics like you have the arches up against the chassis. Do you not have any bodywork (sides,
rear tub) to fit between the chassis and the arches?
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Guinness
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| posted on 15/7/11 at 05:43 AM |
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http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=156886
If you want to swap??
[Edited on 15/7/11 by Guinness]
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Rallye_Mark
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| posted on 15/7/11 at 08:05 AM |
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I had that problem, I just got bigger Tiger arches, about 13".
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birdii
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| posted on 19/7/11 at 11:27 AM |
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Thanks for all the input guys, been thinking about wider arched but im now settled on the idea of changing the wheels to something with ET38, should
be enough to fix the problem.
Cheers
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