New Mags

[fergo308]

a 17 that's 8" wide with a +35 offset sits inside the guards nicely,with good strut clearance. I test fitted a super advan 3 spoke a while back to get an idea of what would suit the car as far as the dimensions go. you could go to 8.5" without any worrise,but a 9 would need a bit of negative camber to remain inside the std guards at the top.

one of the problems as I see it is that the rear guards are significantly like 15mm) narrower than the fronts. I test fitted some R33 GTR rims on my car (9" wide +30off) a while back,and while the fronts sat right on the edge of the guards,the rears were outside of them by at least half an inch. you can't fix that without flaring the guards...

Justin...

Edited May 17, 2006 by fergo308

[EGA41T]

ive got 18x9's at front and back with +35 offset, the rears even have a 5-10mm spacer on them and they still sit within the gaurds of my S2 RS FOUR S

[qikstagea]

18x8.5s sit well in, with a fair bit of clearance room, so yeah. what rubber are you running, andy? THEY are nice rims. you dont seem to have any rear camber at all... scrub when its carrying weight?

[EGA41T]

no scrubing at all, ive got a tiny bit of camber but not enough to be worrying about. 18" x 9" WORK Meister S2R wheels running on 235/40/r18 tyres

[Ska]

Be careful when lowering, I have to run crazy camber on both the front and the back to get them to fit in the guards.

That would change if I could afford to raise it about an inch or so, but with no tools and experiance, the tyre workshops out here want ~$250 to raise and wheel align it........ so will just have to deal with un-even wearing tyres for the time being.

I dont do many kms in it anyway, only about 200kms a week, but still eventually it'll cost more to replace all four tyres I know, meh either way I'm screwed

[qikstagea]

oh well. guess you'll just have to get wheel arch flares. VIP stagea style. meh would look different, but... odd.

[Ska]

I'd do it if I could afford it! I'd probably look for flares like on the old SLR5000's

Or is there a wide-body kit for stagea's?

[Tangles]

Or is there a wide-body kit for stagea's?

Enter AMS................................

go Monkey go

[qikstagea]

would definitely make for a gnarly looking wagon. dunno about slr flares but... little bolt holes and such... there was a 200sx, an s14, that DMD did. purple one, that had some gnarly flares. i think it was on the cover of ff and high tech perf. mag.

looking at them from the back, though... a stagea with big wheels does seem to have a really wide stance, anyway.

[Ska]

Yeah but imagine having a foot or so added to the width from the bottom of the glass down on the sides, mmMMMmmMMMmmm phat!

[qikstagea]

anyone on here a photoshop wiz? get out your crayons! im pretty keen to see what one would look like, actually... would turn heads - not that a stagea doesnt anyway.

[EGA41T]

give me a sec

[EGA41T]

hehe... here you go

[qikstagea]

wow. like, wow. holy hell, thats about the toughest car i think ive ever seen. bit of a 34gtr love child, thats incredible. id assume prohibitively expensive but...

either that or youre fanTAStis at photoshop. that took maybe 10 minutes.

Edited May 18, 2006 by qikstagea

[EGA41T]

yeah new gaurds, doors and sideskirts, and thats only the body panels

[Ska]

Not wide enough! I'm talking at least 50cms wider each side

[GoldZilla]

Not wide enough! I'm talking at least 50cms wider each side

Haha, might as well trade in the Stagea for this, the Chevy Kodiak:

[Ska]

nooooo I mean like wide body like some of proshe's wide body kits:

Now that is wide!

[qikstagea]

haha thats not a wide body kit thats just what porsches look like... VW's with hotness.

[rb30dett]

these pics should give you an idea of the amount of room you have with +35 offset & 9" rim