Well with any luck my Scirocco will soon be finding it's self with noticeably wider wheels sitting considerably further out than they are right now, and I'm going to have to do something to the bodywork to keep them legal and keep some suspension travel.
With it being a boxy '80s wedge of a car, my first thought, was box arches. The paint's shoddy anyway and will need attention sometime, so I've no worries about cutting into it, it seems like it would be quite easy to slit the wing and rear quarter horizontally and pull out the area bellow it out to cover the wheels, fill in the gaps I've created and I've got box-arches.
Oh, and I'd be leave the front flares wide up to the door, with the back edge open as a vent into the wings, like Escort Cosworth's and the top of late Delta Integrales. (This is for aero more than looks.)
So lets see some inspiration, the only thing I'm not sure about is that I don't really want to loose the original arch-flares as they're integral to the standard body-kit and I like the rest of the kit, and don't have time to mess around with blending it in. So do people think it could still look good, or will it just be a bit wrong? Even better, do people have photos of something with box arches that still has normal flares on there too?! I'm sure I've seen something on here like that before as I remember someone commenting that they thought it looked better than expected.
General inspiration and box-arches awesome-ness is also more than welcome, and very much encouraged
I'll start with the obvious box-arched-heros:
Thanks, Robin.
With it being a boxy '80s wedge of a car, my first thought, was box arches. The paint's shoddy anyway and will need attention sometime, so I've no worries about cutting into it, it seems like it would be quite easy to slit the wing and rear quarter horizontally and pull out the area bellow it out to cover the wheels, fill in the gaps I've created and I've got box-arches.
Oh, and I'd be leave the front flares wide up to the door, with the back edge open as a vent into the wings, like Escort Cosworth's and the top of late Delta Integrales. (This is for aero more than looks.)
So lets see some inspiration, the only thing I'm not sure about is that I don't really want to loose the original arch-flares as they're integral to the standard body-kit and I like the rest of the kit, and don't have time to mess around with blending it in. So do people think it could still look good, or will it just be a bit wrong? Even better, do people have photos of something with box arches that still has normal flares on there too?! I'm sure I've seen something on here like that before as I remember someone commenting that they thought it looked better than expected.
General inspiration and box-arches awesome-ness is also more than welcome, and very much encouraged
I'll start with the obvious box-arched-heros:
Thanks, Robin.