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Has anyone done a widebody with the Outback wheelarch flares

PostPosted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 11:19 am
by Kimmo
Anybody seen one? Not counting MCM's jacked-up Outfap, obvs.

Re: Has anyone done a widebody with the Outback wheelarch fl

PostPosted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 12:15 pm
by bigBADbenny
Yes a local sedan and quite a few stateside.

Johnny Walker’s is well known.

Its a training kit for full widebody, cut guards f&r is a big step to take regardless.

Re: Has anyone done a widebody with the Outback wheelarch fl

PostPosted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 12:26 pm
by Kimmo
Yeah, it's just idle musing... I reckon it'd look tough AF though, love to see some pics.

Cutting the rear guards up would indeed be a big deal, probably totally rape the resale. But what I'm wondering, is would anyone have done it properly with wider suspension, or more likely everyone who's done it has just bunged deep wheels on and told the wheel bearings to suck it up, and tried not to think about epic scrub radius...

Re: Has anyone done a widebody with the Outback wheelarch fl

PostPosted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 12:34 pm
by Kimmo
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WTF I can't even.

Struggling to imagine how there's any room for the tyre on the inboard sides of the wheels, unless they've started making conical tyres and double diameter wheels for this sort of wank...

And damn, those poor CVs!

Re: Has anyone done a widebody with the Outback wheelarch fl

PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:24 pm
by bigBADbenny
If you go for a 5x114.3 conversion, it adds +40mm or so to the track.

Eg stock gr sti rims are flush.

Fb member in melbourne Matthew Setaro has done this with iirc custom/hybrid rear hub assemblies.

Re: Has anyone done a widebody with the Outback wheelarch fl

PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:20 am
by Kimmo
Yeah right. Hmm

Re: Has anyone done a widebody with the Outback wheelarch fl

PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:29 pm
by statetro
Kimmo wrote:
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WTF I can't even.

Struggling to imagine how there's any room for the tyre on the inboard sides of the wheels, unless they've started making conical tyres and double diameter wheels for this sort of wank...

And damn, those poor CVs!


That looks weird.

Re: Has anyone done a widebody with the Outback wheelarch fl

PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:59 am
by bigBADbenny
State trooper would you care to elaborate?