turbo rear flares only

[82SC]

has anyone thought of putting just the rear turbo flares on their skinny ass-ed cars?

I am planning way into the future but I think just the rear flares would look interesting on my SC...

does anyone have pics of this mod?

I guess this is my subconscience acting out for my desire to own a Carrera 2S....

[89911]

This is my opinion, but it would look weird and out of place without the rockers, front flairs, and other trim. I am not even a big fan of the turbo look option. I think it make the car look overweight and heavy and also adds a lot of wind resistance in these cars. If you can find wide enough tires to fit under your existing flares, your car gains a more aggresive attitude. Oddly enough, the factory turbo wheels, 8 and 9" by 16"s will fit on the narrow body and look absoulutely lost in the turbo's wheel wells. These cars need 9" and 11" at least to fill out the flares (or spacers, which I avoid). Adding even more resistance. Now, if you got 400hp pushing you around, fine. If you car is just the stock engine, why bother? When they came out with the RUF yellow bird in the late 80's, they actually used 3.2 Carrera body's as the starting point for the decreased wind resistance. I'm not dissing the turbolook, it has other great options such as turbo brakes, etc. I guess the wide look is like the targa, either you like it or you don't.

[RarlyL8]

I've only seen one 911 (an SC) with turbo flairs on the rear only.
Because we are all used to seeing the full flair package it looked a bit odd.

Front flairs are much easier to do than rear, you bolt on a set of 930 fenders. Is there a reason you don't want to do this as well?

As for the agument of flairs not needed for N/A 911s, this is totally subjective depending on how you wish to use the car.

As you all are painfully aware I run my warmed over 3.0L with full flairs and wide tires.

Yes, you will lose a couple of MPH on the big end. So what, I don't normally drive over 140MPH anyway.

I am more than certain that this car handles MUCH better than it ever thought about when stock. You have not lived until you do a four wheel drift on an onramp at over twice the suggested speed with 47 inches of tread hazing the pavement.

And then there is the look.
The expression on the face of every sports car driver I see tells all.

But I digress (having a Porsche moment). To each his own.

[Kurt B]

I've toyed with the idea myself. There is a 993 variant out there with exactly that. It doesn't look flared front and back, but mainly just in the rear. Awesome look too.

I think it's worth investigating. Of course, you may want to do it in photoshop first and make sure it's the look you're after!

I would actually rather have a shop modify my fear fenders to make my tires fit better. I have 8" + 1" spacer and they don't quite fit--so I had to bend out the lip. Maybe not turbo flares, but make the stock fenders a 1/2" wider?

[emcon5]

There was an SC on Ebay a while back with 930 flares in the back only. I thought it looked a little silly, like the car ate too many Twinkies. A SC already has that JayLo backside. Turbo flares in back with nothing up front, end up looking like Roseanne Barr.

Tom

[Kurt B]

Tom:

That's why I just rolled my fenders. More than just roll the lip closed. I rolled the lip out about 1/4" ..more on the driver's side.

Doesn't anyone think a body shop could make them 1/2" wider using a machine to pull them without warping them?
Any body gurus know?

[beepbeep]

I second all said about tires....

You'll need a set of 11-inchers just to fill it out...

I have a set of original Fuschs 16-inchers and need to use spacers in front.

285 width back, 245 front is *perfect*...

[Jack Olsen]

I assume Turbo flares only in the back means 11-inch rear wheels and 7-inch fronts. I would think this would be a good setup for drag racing or if you want to bolt a snow plow up front, but what else? The handling would be nutty.

[RarlyL8]

Jack -
I'm not sure how the handling would be. I've seen a lot of widebody cars with 225s out front and 345s in back. This is a huge disparity. If the frontally flair challenged 911 ran 285s in the rear and 225s up front it might not be too bad, given modest spacing.
Dunno. Would look a bit odd though. I saw a hacked up cab some time ago that had turbo 9" flairs in front and 13 or 14" flairs in the rear. That car even looked a bit lopsided.

[beepbeep]

Well from my expirience (running 245 fron, 285 back), handling is better than with original...car is trambling (sp?) more and is generally more instable in rain (back wheels aren't running trough front wheel "dry" track but a bit outside it)...but other than that it's OK.

Also, i noticed higher lateral grip....but no warning.

Turbo Fuschs with Zero Pirelli's would squeal beore they let go, 285 Yoko's AVS just hold on until they finally let go...w/o saying a pip.

[emcon5]

I replaced my rear tires before my fronts, and for a couple months had 245-45's on the back and 205-55's on the front. I noticed significantly increased understeer over the old rear tires, which were 225-50. When I replaced the front tires with 225-50's, the handling returned (pretty much) to the way it was before.

I would thing if you went that wide on the back, you would need to do something else with the suspension or alignment to get rid of some of the push. On a 930, you can use the throttle, but probably not on a SC.

Am I missing something?

Tom

[82SC]

it was just an idea probably not going to happen...

I guess on the 993 the front is a bit wide to begin with, so turbo flares on that car doesn't look as lopsided or doesn't mess up the handling...

oh well...MJ

[rob911]

See the beast

http://www.ruf-automobile.de/html/911_ctr_engl.html

Originally posted by 89911
This is my opinion, but it would look weird and out of place without the rockers, front flairs, and other trim. I am not even a big fan of the turbo look option. I think it make the car look overweight and heavy and also adds a lot of wind resistance in these cars. If you can find wide enough tires to fit under your existing flares, your car gains a more aggresive attitude. Oddly enough, the factory turbo wheels, 8 and 9" by 16"s will fit on the narrow body and look absoulutely lost in the turbo's wheel wells. These cars need 9" and 11" at least to fill out the flares (or spacers, which I avoid). Adding even more resistance. Now, if you got 400hp pushing you around, fine. If you car is just the stock engine, why bother? When they came out with the RUF yellow bird in the late 80's, they actually used 3.2 Carrera body's as the starting point for the decreased wind resistance. I'm not dissing the turbolook, it has other great options such as turbo brakes, etc. I guess the wide look is like the targa, either you like it or you don't.