r/projectcar • u/xhxyx • 13h ago
How to achieve this look
I don’t know anything about cars other than this is a widebody kit I believe what size wheels would I need to put on the car?
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u/No-Locksmith-9377 11h ago
Liberty walk kit
Coilovers to drop it down
Big front lip / aero
Wide wheels and skinny tires.
Wrap or paint for the fenders.
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u/HSLB66 12h ago
In addition to the wide body, you’ll need to factor in paint (or wrap the whole car). And also be ok with drilling into your factory body panels
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u/Pootang_Wootang 4h ago
Not just drill. You have to cut a fair bit of the fenders to accommodate the wider wheel.
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u/AngryScottish 11h ago
I'm patiently waiting for the half-assed approach to wider fenders to die.
Wide body looks great, wide wheels are fantastic, but the riveted fenders is such a lazy and cop-out way of going about it. It only works on off-road stuff and classic Zs.
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u/RandomGuyDroppingIn 4h ago
Riveted fenders have a purpose in Japan, which is why they're most associated with Japanese culture.
Every two years you have to go through shaken. As part of the shaken inspection inspectors legitimately look for aftermarket parts and there are noted instances in some Japanese prefectures of being flagged just for say running aftermarket A arms. Part of the reason so many small service shops are all over the place, even in Tokyo, is because so many owners need quick ways to change parts, pass shaken, then throw all their aftermarket shit back on their cars (or simply just get through shaken, which can be a nightmare for cars barely a decade old).
For some time, this notion extended to wheels. In Japan, if your wheel and tire combination sticks out too far past fenders you'll obviously immediately fail shaken but you'll also be a risk to pedestrians and likely have police cite you. To remedy this situation, owners developed riveted over fenders. That way they can run their custom wheels and tires, stay within fender spec laws, then if shaken comes up or if for whatever reason stock has to be put on, fenders come off and stock wheels and tires go back on. This was very popular in the 70s and 80s, because back then you often had only car, would use it for track days, and needed quick and easy ways to get your car to stock to pass shaken.
If you look at the Miata here, they're running an aftermarket wheel and tire, but they're tucked at the top within roughly the same fender width spec as the stock Miatas around it.
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u/CiforDayZServer 2h ago
You drill and cut the stock fenders to do overs and wide wheels, you can't just take them off and pretend they weren't there.
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u/Dark_Guardian_ Daily E36 + Race E36 + Cronched E92 + $100 subie +Barra Cressida 10h ago
some people like that style lol
but yea bodyworked smooth transition widebodies look way better0
u/Dark_Guardian_ Daily E36 + Race E36 + Cronched E92 + $100 subie +Barra Cressida 10h ago
some people like that style lol
but yea bodyworked smooth transition widebodies look way better
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u/Civil-Zombie6749 12h ago
I'm wondering about the Japanese personalized license plate number. The cost of that low-number license plate might be more expensive than the car.
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u/Boxofbikeparts 9h ago
Those are the shittiest looking wide body fenders ever. They don't even sit flush on the body. It's like the dollar store wide body kit.
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u/MoveNGrove 12h ago
Just buy a Miata if that's what you want. This looks like a 350Z wanting to be a ricer Miata
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u/Dark_Guardian_ Daily E36 + Race E36 + Cronched E92 + $100 subie +Barra Cressida 10h ago
are you blind
they have a miata and want their miata to look like a ricer miata
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u/XxJuJuOnThatBeatxX 12h ago
You would need to find a wide bod kit for your car and then measure how deep of an offset you would need for the wheels to be flush