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So I Went To Roll My Arches Today To Fit My Fat Rims... Wanna See My Rust?


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So, a picture says a thousand words, so here it is.

As you can (hopefully) see is I've got a little bit of an old repair thats shown up when we rolled the guards. When I say shown up, I mean the whole arch has fallen apart. THis is in essence a track car (with some daily stuff). So, I was thinking of just cutting the arches out and adding some torana style bolt on flares (I know that are not to everyones tastes, however they'll fix the issues nicely).. and I had a tori for ages. I only want something thats 20 - 25mm..

THe usual searches have churned out some outdated links.... Does anyone know where I can source some??

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not as bad as i expected to see actually. get rid of that bog and you will go faster on the track :P

but seriously if you want something bolt-on i saw some bolt ons for an R33 on Ebay, kinda like the 400R ones. but i just looked and i cant find em again sry :(

Thanks heaps guys but I got a hold of just jap who had a carbon set in stock - really helpful :)

Being a paid-up member, did you ask for discount? Darron's back from Hols.

  • 3 weeks later...

I had to return the flares as they were just asthetic, didn't actually open up any room for my wheels.

So, its cutting and glassing I'm afraid. Pics to come :)

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