OMG, wide wheels with meaty tires and properly installed fender flares to fit said tires? Yeah, THIS is what sexy looks like. Take notes, stance tards
I really hope this is the new trend. I hope this eventually shames stancetards out of the car world and off to being attention whoring scene tards somewhere else
There are plenty of GR WRXs out there with 265-295 width tires. Those wonderful flares will hold an awful lot of tire. Stock sizes are either 235 or 245 depending on WRX vs STI.
How wide are the tires in the first post? They don't look that crazy. 275? 285? I think the aftermarket flares + super low offset (that makes the tire stick out way past the OEM body panels) makes them look wider. Yeah, for the new body style it's pretty standard to see 18x9.5" +38 with 265/35R18 tires. Fits with no fender work on stock suspension and needs a minor roll in the rear if you're lowered. Andy has 275's on his without any crazy fender mods. As for older Subaru's with aftermarket flares, I love how this one looks. 18×11 +20 wheels with 315/30R18 tires. Too bad it's only Stage 2.
They are 275's. His username is apetron on Nasioc. Just search google for apetron sti and his dyno thread comes up
The pic I posted has 295/30/18s on an 18x10.5. ^Yup apetron is the owner. Anyone remember the previous owner's user?
Thanks. That sounds about right judging by how wide the tires actually look from the rear. 18x10.5 +10 makes them stick out way past the OEM body work so they look much wider from an angle. Powerband looks pretty good too!
Besides getting wheels / tires involved with the wider stance. What kind of body work would be the cost of something like that?
Some may say as far as cutting the fenders to clear the wider wheels and tires; unless your car is high enough to clear under the stock fender.
Hmm let me rephrase then, what kind of body work and cost would be needed to do it all. I'm liking it a lot to where I would like to invest in doing it possibly. And temporarily getting spacers to fill the wheels afterwords...
Side note my friend from WI has his flares and is rebarreling his SSR MS3 to 18x11.5 +10ish with 295s. Pick here is 18x10 +23 spaced to -6 or something. He pushes ~430whp on a gt30r setup
It's ok I shouldn't judge every Subaru by it's tire size, just as others shouldn't judge a Prius because it's a hybrid lol
Love love love me some wide body GDs. Would look a lot better molded, but works well on this color. Haven't posted these pics in years but dayum this wb gd makes me harder than blackozone at a justin bieber concert: this one too:
Impossibru! Harder than diamonds, we're talking about JB here. I could drill to China with that kind of boner. Also, these cars are proper stance.
subaru and prodrive need to team up again and rock a WRC wide body on the new sedan. i doubt it will look better than the hawk eye, but its worth a few million of their $$ to try..lol
