Widebody?Pros? Cons?

[FD3S_pilot]

Can someone tell be the pro's and con's of going widebody?

[Hyde]

i guess the pro of a widebody is that you have a wider stance for better traction and handling i guess, plus it looks cool.

[240LoVeR]

cons......dont crash its just one more thing to fix if you do, and if you go widebody you will need wider tires meaning more traction meaning for drifting you may need more power depending on your style and how much you really do drift.

[sdtouge]

unless you have some fat *Censored**Censored**Censored* wheels and sick offset its lame

but pros, honda drivers will give you props
cons, your car will look ricey and you will have wasted 500 or 1000 or whatever and might not even have a diff or something.//lame.

[Slapshotnerd]

pros - can fit wider wheels
- looks a lot better (in most circumstances)

cons - costs money to install and paint
- You have to cut the body underneath the widebody to fit it (if it's done properly), which means you can never go back to stock form
- in most cases you're swapping out factory sheetmetal for a fiberglass or urethane widebody

[DRIFTER-M]

Pros
-Looks sweet
-can run wider wheels
-looks sweet

Cons
-You have to have wide wheels that fill it out or else it just looks stupid
-expensive for the wheels
-remember, you will be wider. If this is a daily car too, it may be harder to park and stuff depending on how wide you go.

[brainfood]

Are 50mm overfenders 50mm wider on each side? Making the car 100mm overall or is 50mm the overall size of the car?

[dreamdrivedrift]

thats correct brainfood

[brainfood]

thats correct brainfood

heh, so 25mm wider on each side making it 50mm overall?

[dreamdrivedrift]

no, 50 mm wider each side, so 100 mm wider overall.

[brainfood]

no, 50 mm wider each side, so 100 mm wider overall.

thats a huge difference spacers would have to be huge... no overfenders to cover up my body damage then. anyone make 25mm rears?

[s15driftking]

Can someone tell be the pro's and con's of going widebody?

pros = running wider/loweroffset wheels, also, it allows you to run a wider tire dependign on what you are looking for.

cons = they fit/look like *Censored**Censored**Censored**Censored*, and is one more thing you have to re-buy when you hit

[brainfood]

pros = running wider/loweroffset wheels, also, it allows you to run a wider tire dependign on what you are looking for.

cons = they fit/look like *Censored**Censored**Censored**Censored*, and is one more thing you have to re-buy when you hit

But on the plus side its one more thing you can buy when you hit. Usually body work is more expensive then painting a new overfender and pop riviting it back on. At least good body work

[Octagon]

Widebodies are also intended for if you change around suspension pick-up points. A lot of times, racers will widen a frame or use a new k-member in order to move the control arm pick-up points out further from the centreline of the car.

This will be in concert, often, with raising the frame/k-member in the body in order to drop the overall ride height (sometimes called "channeling") and/or drop spindles, tubular a-arms of varied lengths, and many other significant suspension geometry changes.

Sometimes, even, the widebody over-fenders or "fenderboxes" as the old-schoolers call 'em, housed oil coolers, radiators, intercoolers, or various ducts for venting hot engine bay air out and/or cool air for the brakes in.

A good example of this would be anything from the old IMSA GTU ranks, like this S13 driven by Butch Leitzinger.

[s15driftking]

octagon, thank you for bringing up that excellent point!! good stuff!!!

also, brainfood, good point as well, i guess that is true, ebcause its way easier to replace a 200 dollar set of overfenders than re-true a quarter panel