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Avsguy33
07-18-2005, 07:14 PM
Anyone heard of GM tubbing out the rear fenders to make room for some wider meats to go underneath this thing. It would be awesome to have some big ol' rubber to hold the 400 ponies to the ground.



sccaGTO
07-18-2005, 07:37 PM
Not too damn likely.
gotzaGTO
07-18-2005, 09:06 PM
doubt it since production is starting in two weeks and the "new features" have already been released.
cali_broker
07-18-2005, 10:59 PM
other than a few nips and tucks here and there it's "still" the same chassis platform that has served both as the aussie Monaro and now our GTO for a good several years now.."if" there is a new one; the larger wheel wells i'm speculating won't appear until there's a MAJOR redo '07/'08 being the earliest with '06 being the final model year with this current body style...we'll see what the mighty GM has in store...with all those layoffs i wouldn't be surprised if they hold off on any r and d for future GTO's
DFWGTO
07-18-2005, 11:54 PM
BMR Tubbed there car IN so it would handle 10" tires... they said it was easy, Dunno...
There is a pic on there site but I cant really make it out
nikivee
07-19-2005, 05:23 AM
Anyone heard of GM tubbing out the rear fenders to make room for some wider meats to go underneath this thing. It would be awesome to have some big ol' rubber to hold the 400 ponies to the ground.


I doubt that very much.
bnvus
07-19-2005, 06:36 AM
wishful thinking...
sccaGTO
07-19-2005, 08:41 AM
BMR Tubbed there car IN so it would handle 10" tires... they said it was easy, Dunno...
There is a pic on there site but I cant really make it out
I read an article about BMR's test car, an '04 GTO. They said they had to notch the rear control arms, roll fenders, reshape some inner sheet metal, & maybe something else. Depending on what kind of time, money & tools you have, that might be easy.
CSiJason
07-19-2005, 02:28 PM
BMR Cut the inner fender out and relocated the strut mount and moved the whole thing inward and welded it back up. Not exactly a weekend do it yourself project. (That on top of notching the rear control arms among other things.)
cali_broker
07-19-2005, 03:05 PM
..then there's w2w http://www.w2wpowertrain.com/t-GTO-Concept-2.aspx
GTwOw
07-19-2005, 05:00 PM
..then there's w2w http://www.w2wpowertrain.com/t-GTO-Concept-2.aspx

wow, $16k to have them install those flares. :eek2: that's pricey.
Mr.Goat
07-20-2005, 01:51 PM
wow, $16k to have them install those flares. :eek2: that's pricey.

Looks like 6K for the flares... 16K for the bumper to bumper.
cali_broker
07-20-2005, 02:25 PM
got to admit the w2w is sweeeeet! out of most of the concept GTO's i've seen i think this is the best..not overly stated in my opinion...but if i was to do some flares i would be tempted to do everything else too! lol..ahhh...boys n their toys as they say