How has this not made it to the list?

[nocones77-vw at yahoo.com (nocones77-vw@yahoo.com)]

I always thought the Trans Am kit was cool from a historic perspective, but a bit funny looking from a pure asthetic perspective. I happen to prefer the GR2 kit myself.

http://www.scirocco.org/photos/53/mk1_square1.jpg

I still need a front spoiler myself, too. I have the GR2 spoiler, but the guy who reproduced the front flares intentionally changed the leading edge of the arch so that it no longer fits the GR2 spoiler, as he wasn't intending to use it himself. So I'm still not sure what I want to do next, but this it the current state of things:


http://www.parts4vws.com/images/members/ntovsen/06_SOLO_sm.JPG

13x9s look really good on it, IMHO, but unfortunately NOBODY makes 225/45-13 street tires required to maintain that look on the street, and anything smaller is gonna look silly. 

That's the biggest issue you're gonna have with any "real race car" wide body kit. Street tires just don't come in sizes that are comparable to the slicks that a vintage race car would run. Since I'm now putting the car into semi-retirement from autocross, I might see about getting some new thicker shells made for a set of racing-spec 15x9 3-piece BBS wheels I have so they can be used safely on the street. Even then though, I'll probably need to trim the flares to fit, and tires are still hard to come by. You're pretty much limited to the Yokohama A032R, which is technically still a racing tire, but is DOT rated and has enough tread that you can get away with it on the street...even if only in fair weather.

The other issue you run into is getting the car low enough to look correct. You just can't do it properly without custom knuckles or ball joint spacers. I don't know if I would ever really trust my spacers on the street, but I'm considering having a knuckle properly modified based on what they did to a friend's GT4 (vintage road race, ex-IMSA Lite) Rabbit. That XKROMX guy on Vortex is working on something that *might* be OK too. (The knuckle modification looks OK, but I'm not sure I like the way he did the ball joint...)

Neal

----- Original Message ----
From: raveracer77 <raveracer77@yahoo.ca>
To: Nate Mellom <doubt@inwave.com>; Scirocco list <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 9:46:22 PM
Subject: Re: How has this not made it to the list?


    Well there's no accounting for taste.  The kit is goofy looking, especially without the front bumper which I have to say really is the worst part.  It appears to be well done at least.  If this upsets you, don't look at this:

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2500540

Yes, I've posted and I'm curious to see if manages to make the thing.  Allyn's car has a bit of a featurette on page 6

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nate Mellom 
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  Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 09:29 AM
  Subject: How has this not made it to the list?


  Shudder, shiver, shudder.....
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