wiring clean up / roll bar prep / weight reduction

[tmorgan4]

At least that's one thing I'll have you on. My tires are still going to be wider.

[gs14racer]

Oh crap, what size are you going to be running??

[tmorgan4]

Well, mine are a little bit different tread pattern too. They're 35x13

[gs14racer]

Hmmm yea you got me beat the sectional width on the 315's are 12.4 inches.

Time i guess to step up to 335's that will put me 13.5 inches then i win.

[Mettler]

Increasing tyre width to excessive sizes may look cool and improve grip in a straight line, but under camber changes (i.e. cornering) you end up with a smaller contact patch than you would with a more sensibly sized tyre.

It's usually fine for the rear... tho you may find your rear end less predictable and oversteer is less progressive than before, changing to more snap-oversteer style... but it's crucial that you don't run oversized tyres on the front.

[gs14racer]

Yea i was just making a joke I aint gonna run 335's

just 315's, i only run 265/275 fronts.

[T45]

LMAO "only 275 fronts" That's like saying I only have a 12 inch ****. haha

Modified by T45 at 2:32 PM 11/2/2007
Modified by T45 at 2:32 PM 11/2/2007

[gs14racer]

Heres the comparo to my normal 295's

[SaintlyCharBoy]

sensible or not, those ^^^ are beautiful!

[SuperHatch]

You'll love the 615's. I ran 275's on my Evo for a season of Autocross, they were fun, progressive at the limit, lots of grip, and took at lot of abuse. They do, however, overhear easily and I wouldn't take them on a road course because of that...

[gs14racer]

[gs14racer]

got the car back from getting the roll bar finnally











and heres the wide body

[gs14racer]

moer pics\

[Mettler]

Brutal man, just awesome

[mtcookson]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.... I want me some 315's.

[T45]

That is going to be one nasty mother ****er!

[mtcookson]

What kind of wheels are you using? I think I saw you post about them in another thread but can't even remember.

[gs14racer]

Yea the wheel specs are

work meister s1 3 piece front 18 by 10 +18 275/35/18

Rear 18 by 11 +18 315/30/18

[Jeff Taylor]

Saweeet! I like the cage

Will you be taking the car out anywhere in Miami next month? I'll probably be in town, I'd like to check it out sometime

[Tecni]

Hey Jerry,

I saw your car @ maz last week... Cage is looking real nice.I have a Dinan chipped VH ECU you might be interested in.

Hit me up @ [email protected]

[gs14racer]

Got most of the wide body done

Just need to align some of the panels

FYI origin front fenders = fail

The passenger side went on smoothly 1 hour The driverside fender took 4.5 hours to get right

The rears are really close though very little work involved imo

[Carl H]

lol gotta love fiberglass...i dont envy you one bit.

[gs14racer]

hahaha

[SaintlyCharBoy]

I love the new vent in the hood

[gs14racer]

finishing up the driverside

no cracks / leaks





got undercoat, looks glossy now but dries like stock , it looks like stcok you cant even tell from looking up in there, used it inside and out





jacked up wheel doesnt hit anything good to go



4 rivets just to make sure it fits right before i glue it on



startinig passeneger side

[T45]

Dude it's new years eve and you're in shorts and a t-shirt. I hate you. I envy you. I need to kidnap my woman and move to florida. For real.

[gs14racer]

it was a sultry 85 degrees today here in miami, but tomorow it will dip into a year low of 40 degrees for a couple days, it gets old after a while.

[Guishnu]

Mate,Your going to regret cutting that arch off SO much in the months/weeks to follow - every time you blow up a rear tyre, it's going to take that flexy weak frp arch with it. This is all providing that you are going to drift the car at some point (as i have seen in your previous threads and photo's.

voice of experience here. My friend Phil's S14 did this all the time before he tubbed the arches.

[gs14racer]

the car is not really for anything, lol when i do drift i dont go out and try to be hardcore and blow tires, im pretty conservative with the car as i dont want to crash it haha

anyway

I took a different approach on the passener side as the inner wheel house was so drasticly different from the drivers side i was able to reuse alot of the metal savin me a lot of time, anyway heres the pics.

[T45]

The wheels and tires make that car. Put on some different ones and it would look like ***. lol

And I would rather it get "old" than "cold".