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[Rockoz]

Heath.

There was still plenty of room for mounting points.

Probably not an issue with a road car, but with soft compound tyres, the probably grew a bit at high speed, the extra room forward was probably a good idea.

 

Cheers

 

Rob

[Heath]

I'd need to see how it was done. I can't 100% confidently picture what you're talking about, and generally the race cars had fairly short profile tyres (or is that only on the front?) so I would imagine it wasn't specifically done for that reason...

If your fitment is half decent, and your tyre's diameter is too big, you'll be hitting the flare itself (green line) before you hit any sheet metal in-front of the wheel. My contact patch of my rear tyre (red line) sticks out past the flare the whole way from that bolt down to the ground. On my car, there's certainly no tyre clearance to be gained from cutting any sheetmetal at the front.

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[Rockoz]

I dont think the race tyres were as wide as your example.

All I can say is that it was actually done.

I cant say that every hatch had it done, just the race shell I had.

 

Cheers

 

Rob

[myss427]

Original flare never curved in at the bottoms, with all the moulds these days and thinner material used, they tend to curve in, that's why the touch. Also those little brackets that kept the guards hanging out helped allot as well. I have really good flares on mine with 17 x 10 inch wheels on the front, 245 tyres and heaps of clearance.

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