Tubbing

[Morgz32]

hey guys

does anyone know and/or can send a link to a thread that gives you a run down on how to tyb front and rear wheel arches?

thanks

[GTSBoy]

Tubbing? That's easy. First you take out all the interior of the cabin and the boot. Then you get an angle grinder and cut out the old inner wheel arches. Then you fabricate new, bigger (deeper) wheel arches and weld them in. And because the upper strut mounts are located on the old wheel arches, you have to make up some new ones of those. And then you realise that because your rear suspension has struts, you can't actually make the wheels go much deeper inwards in the car without hitting the struts anyway, so you've just wasted all the effort you've done up until this point. Then you decide that you'll just move the lower mounts for the struts further inward on the lower arms and that's cool except that now you've mucked up the wheel ratio. And besides, now your really wide wheel that you want to put in to make use of these tubs is rubbing on the front upper arm (traction arm, radius rod, whatever you want to call it). At this point you wish you'd never asked about tubbing a RWD Nissan.

Did you perhaps mean putting flared wheel arches on it?

[LANDSCRIBBLE]

I always wondered why i never see tubbed skylines..

[Captain Natro]

I always wondered why i never see tubbed skylines..

Easiest way to do this if your realy have your heart set on tubing would be to convert the entire rear end to a four link set up and go from there... Not recommended for a street car and its not cheap

Edited January 14, 2013 by Captain Natro

[NXTIME]

^^^ what they both said

[craigy32]

fI think he means tubbing for wheel clearance on lock, you dont do the rear of course, just the front, chop out as required and replace with metal further in.. there's lots of pics if you google it

[MagicMikeZ32]

^^^ Why?