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They are universal fit arches but highly modified as they were a country mile off the shape of the mk1!
(note there is no filler on these, just fibreglass!, final prep will be done once the long list of other jobs has been done! soooo, people running wide arches, what have you done to raise your original arches? I know the principles could be the same hopefully. Started ff by marking where the fibreglass arch would go top and bottom. Cut the original arch away with a grinder roll the arch with an arch roller, and then weld the standard arch back together to stop water and such getting in, spray with primer and and put some under seal on stop it rusting then just bolted the arches on as he wanted the bolt on look. By doing that gets rid of the side wall touching the arch when lowered (due to the arch being rolled) and then weldign up to seal from water stopping the tyre and tread hitting the existing arch. ill see if i can dig some photos from it.Neil_turbo wrote:I have been working on these for a while now, and the rears are just about there
"highly modified" Neil. In what way ? What exactly did you do to alter them ?(they were to short for the arch, length so were 2cm in at front and back), modified the flare to match the wheels and taper smoothly and the point at meeting the sideskirt
??& rear It is achieved using wider wheels with a lower offset.....or is there something im missing? 
pk_090 wrote:nuthing wrong with spacers.
Some people go too far which gives them a bad name though. If you move it further away from the wheel bearing then you'll increase the load on the bearing which will shorten it's life. The further you move it the worse this effect becomes until ultimately, at the extremes, it becomes dangerous. The classic example is some of the seriously wide arch bodykits where people use huge spacers to move the standard wheels outwards instead of fitting the wider wheels which should be used in the first place. whether you achieve this via spacers or by carefully selecting the right offset is is irrelevant. Of course in the real world clearances around brakes and suspension as well as wheels not being available in an infinite range of widths and offsets mean that compromises have to be made but if you stick to this principle as closely as you can then there shouldn't be a problem.kaiowas wrote:pk_090 wrote:nuthing wrong with spacers.
In general there's nothing wrong with using them, fitted properly they are no different to using a different offset wheel.
Whenever you start mucking about with aftermarket wheels or spacers etc the important thing to always bear in mind where the the location of the centre of the tyre tread will end up relative to it's original position.
In an ideal world if you need the outside edge of the wheel moving out by 10mm you'd fit a 20mm wider wheel adding 10mm to the outside and 10mm to the inside without affecting the overall offset of the wheel.
( heavy steering, more expensive tyres slower top speed etc etc). I'll grab a pic of them tomorrow if you like so you can chuckle at the width of them.
PW@Woodsport wrote:There's nothing mechanically wrong with using spacers from an engineering point of view, Mr2 Ferrari replicas use an 8" rear spacer and a 6" front spacer without any safety issues, sort of puts the 20-30mm spacers normal folk use into perspective.
I have used up to a 30mm spacer on Mk1's for many years to fill arches out with no problems at all.
& sold on seemed to have very wide track Paul. How was that done please ?pk_090 wrote:PW,
are you away of any spacers that could change the stud patter from 4x100 to 4x114?
Alex
(you may have to look at the vw ones not toyota.....
.. (similar to what i did to make my arches fit!)
how are these usually welded to the outer arch? They are normally spot welded and bonded on a stock Mk1.