anybody got any on here?

im going to run wide rubber on my track car and im going to fabricate some steel wide arches to hide them,

any pics so i can get a few ideas please?

 

Google Gartrac and you'll get loads of great wide arched Mk4 pics

 

im on it lol

 

Maybe not as extreme... But i always liked the Rieger kit.

 

christ thats mammoth lol

i like the look of the 1700T arches...

 

That was my second choice...

 

looks wise i like that, but it would be too heavy in steel, and i want it steel really so its bomb proof,
to do that id have to make it in fibre glass, and im not to keen on that for my track slag

 

ahh, thats more like it, i can fab that from steel

 

how many are these are there as i heard that ford only made 3 of em,i may be wronge tho
was very surprised to see it at rsoc as i thought at that point all had been scrapped by ford

 

its malcom wilsons own car mate

 

yeah i read in rsoc mag was surprised like i say as i didnt think ford had

released any of em let alone not scrapped em

is it true that the engine in it was the basis for the rs200 lump?

 

yes i belive so mate

 

James do them in kevalar carbon

 

Same engine mate, near as damn... When they scrapped the RS1700T they had a job lot of engines, so it made sence to use them when they Built the RS200..

 

yeah, i suppose, but i just want it to be able to be bashed and bumped and not crack and fall apart...

steels so easy, if it gets bashed, i can just pull it out and blow it over

 

James couldn't you do something like I did with my Mk5 but use Mk2 escort Forest arches?

 

got any pics?

 

true but u can re gel the kevelar chap as it will have to be a hell of a smack to fuck it up

 

My project click the link in the siggy

 

Thats just dissapeared...

 

ohhh you naughty boy lol

 

https://passionford.com/forum/restorations-rebuilds-and-projects/185726-my-project-escort-maxi-officially-dead-now-being-broken.html

 

mmm, were they fibre glass arches?

 

J-tech is..... Leepu from chop shop

 

whooooooooo?

 

Jase yeah mate originally they where from the Mk2 XR2 wide arch kit... but they look very similar to the Mk2 escort Forest arches which you can still get in metal.

 

what i was going to do was cut along the swage line, and pull it out 2 inches, so the bottom of the panels stay in there original position,

then fabricate and roll a section to fill the 2 inch gap,

then metal finish them, and job done.

ive done quite a few on various cars like this and it works well, but i fancy something different now tbh

 

thats funny as fuck

 

thinking about it, i did a mk2 golf with 10" rears using wider cover arches i think i have a pic of it...brb

 

well i found one crappy phone pic lol




these were front arches off the "g" spec golf i modified to fit the rear to hide the 10" rears

i made new inner arches aswell, and then painted the old girl inside and out as it was a red bare shell when i got it delivered to me lol

 

looks punk as fuk that mate

 

jay , take a look in this months performance ford kid ,


page 134 the readers projects ,

theres a mk 3 wearing wide arches , may give you a bit of insperation

beef

 

whattrack car you got james?

 

cool i will do that, im just after some ideas to see whats been done before...

it may inspire me to try something completly different

 

a mk 4 escort,

its a shell at present, just making the cage, removing the sunroof, doing a few bodywork changes, making perspex windows

its going to run a 2lt zetec, i gave a low ratio lsd box for it here

 

 

here it is when we picked it up

 

 

you got anymore pics of the golf you did mate as im looking for the same thing for my polo!
what sort of price would you charge??
pm me if you like!

 

well as with any of the weird stuff i do, it was just ideas thrown at me by the customer.

i had it a fair while, as an infill job, and i think it was around 2k in the end, but that was a bare shell repaint, loads of mods, and rebuilding.

i only have one other pic and thats of the little bonnet vent the customer drew out on paper, and i made from steel, using the skin of the bonnet for the main body to minimize welding onto the skin.


i will see if i have any more on cd hidden away