- Oar fenders, wide wheels, beefy tires,
and all the other cool things that tie
into making your car, well, wide.
I mean, when you first look at it,
it sounds pretty easy, right?
Well, in this episode of The Build Sheet,
we're gonna go over what to do and what to expect
and what other parts you may need to wide body your car.
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So if you go ahead and look at the car scene right now,
wide body and over fendered cars are everywhere.
So here you are getting home from a car show or car meet
or what have ya, and you've just got done
seeing a mob of Rocket Bunny FRSs pulling up,
and now you get home, you pull up YouTube,
and you're here watching this video,
so you just might be considering wide body-ing
or over fender-ing your car.
Awesome!
Good for ya there, guy.
But before you go ahead and pull the trigger
on a brand new Pandem kit or maybe the rep kit
that you found on eBay for $300,
there might be a few things you should keep in mind
before you go ahead and actually wide body your car,
as far as additional components you may need
or additional processes you may need to do
to actually accomplish that with your car.
So the first thing that is probably pretty obvious
for the most part is that you're going to need
to get a new set of wheels.
So unless you want to be absolutely roasted on Instagram
because you got excited that your over fender showed up
for your 350-Z, but you haven't ordered new wheels yet,
and you got excited, you posted the picture
of the car anyway with the fenders,
like, taped up to the side of the car
on your stock 18x8s or 18x9s,
and then you just get made fun of, and then it goes viral,
and then you're just having a bad time.
With that being said,
you're going to need not only a decently wide wheel,
but also a design that's offered
in a decently low offset, as well.
You can get by with the flowforged option, such as a Rohana,
or even a forty forged wheel like a Forge-Star F14,
but for the most part a multi-piece wheel
is going to be your best bet since you can get them
custom-made to the size that you need
to get that perfect fitment with your over fenders.
And don't forget, as well, you're gonna need
some wide grippy boys to fit those wheels, as well.
Which, by the way, if you need wheels and tires,
FitmentIndustries.com, that's a plug.
We can also get you a quote on multi-piece wheels also.
So, anyway.
So the time has come, the hours of tracking the UPS guy
non-stop for the last week has neared the end
as you get the notification on your phone
that your package has been sent out to delivery.
It will be on your door by as late as 3:00 p.m.
So you go get your BRC, you go prep it
for the transformation, you get everything marked up,
cut out, welded, mocked up, and you throw the new wheels on
and all of a sudden, rubbing.
- [Man] I can't even make a turn without it, like, rubbing.
(wheels rubbing)
- And it's not rubbing of, like, the over fenders,
but it's, like, rubbing of the frame.
On some cars, especially the 86 platform,
when you get into the wider widths of wheels
and the lower offsets of wheels,
you can run into a little bit of an issue
with tires rubbing on other parts of the car
such as the inside of your fender liners
or even with, like, the FRSs and stuff,
you run into an issue with them
hitting the front of the frame rail.
So just be prepared to cut more metal
than originally planned.
I would highly suggest doing your research
on the specific vehicle that you're looking to do
a wide body or put over fenders on
just so you don't get halfway through the install
and then be stuck sitting there like,
what the (bleep) am I gonna do now?
I thought all I had to do was cut my fenders.
I just about had a (bleep) heart attack
when I had to do that.
I can't just cut into the frame of the car,
like, that wasn't in the instruction manual, man.
So now you have everything mocked up,
everything's clearing, you've got it clinko-ed on,
so you can go drive it around for the first time.
Another thing that you're definitely
wanna gonna keep in mind is whether or not
you're going to wrap the new body panels
or your the new fenders of your car.
If you're gonna paint them,
or if you're even just gonna go ahead
and paint the whole car altogether.
I would say for the most part, if you're one of those guys
or girls doing the install by yourselves
or maybe with a couple friends in your garage,
that you're more than likely gonna end up
wrapping the car, which is really cool
because it's another process that you'll get to learn,
it's not too crazy expensive, and you can not only transform
the car with the body kit that you put on it,
but you get to transform it with the color, as well.
So go crazy!
Ah, go stupid!
And probably one of the last things to keep in mind
is if you end up picking up a kit,
such as a Pandem or Rocket Bunny,
the kits are offered with a lot of additional aero parts.
So you get, like, canards, and splitters, and dive plates,
and all that kind of stuff, and even big wings.
But if the kit that you picked out for your car
did not come with any of that aero,
you might wanna look in through some additional aero pieces
to throw on.
A lot of over fenders and wide body kits that are available
for cars on the market tend to make the cars
look pretty aggressive.
So if you have a softer-looking car, like a 350-Z,
that is now wide bodied looking pretty aggressive,
it may look a little odd or if something is missing
if you don't have that front splitter,
or some side splitters, or some canards, or a diffuser,
or a wing, or something like that.
Because when you add that stuff to a wide body car,
it can really round it out per say,
it can really tie everything together,
it can give it that unique look
that you're actually going for.
So the addition of aero can really make or break a car.
Just make sure, again, if you're actually taking your car
to the track or actually care about how that aero
affects the car, remember to keep it balanced.
You can actually revert back to another video that we did
talking about how to balance all your aero.
So really what it all comes down to is if you're looking
to wide body your car or if you're looking
to do a wide body kit or over fenders for your car,
that it's a commitment.
And that it's a commitment that you really wanna do right
the first time, because, well,
you only really get that one chance.
Unless you feel like welding new quarter panels on
or something like that just to recut up again.
Make sure you plan ahead.
Do the research for your car specifically.
There's plenty of videos out there,
there's plenty of write-ups on there,
how to do it for specific vehicles.
Go ahead and do the research.
Make sure you have all the stuff needed ahead of time
so you're not falling into that halfway through process
and then just end up giving up,
because that's, unfortunately,
what we see a lot of people do with their builds.
So don't be that person, go ahead, do the research.
Plan ahead, make an awesome wide body car.
I'm Joe from Fitment Industries.
If you need wheels, tires, suspension, gear,
anything like that, FitmentIndustries.com.
Don't forget to subscribe, and we'll see you later.
Peace.