hey guys,
im unhappy with how little castor i am able to get before my 15's touch the front half of my front guards, not so much an issue with my silly little 13's but they offer little to no grip as ive found out (the hard way), just wondering how people have gone about this in the past, as im pretty sure a few people on here have done it.
Would prefer to do it once and neatly as i dont have the want to paint the front of my car again.
 
here is a picture of my planned cut line, feel free to comment on too much or too little
 

 
if anyone has done this and has good pictures of finished product it would be very helpful
 
cheers
Zac
 

What about some smaller tyres?  Wanli make 195/45/15

I think the setup really needs more castor, car gets wobbly at high speed, steering wheel doesnt self correct quickly or at all.
and i dont think a tyre such as a wanli will offer much in the way of traction, will be as bad as my sumotomos that are stretched over my 8's

Add more castor through some goog strut tops from Eurospeed.
If its steering wobble that would be wheel balance??
More castor will be more stable.

i currently have a set of adjustable strut tops in the car, but being a late mk2 its a small hole, i have partly overcome this by slotting the mounting holes getting some more castor/camber out of it (have slotted on diagonal)
 
reasons for cutting from are i am still running a std front sway bar, im currently looking into a thicker adjustable bar, and as the wheels already touch with the current setup im not liking my chances with more castor.
 
by the term wobbly i ment not stable, tends to veir all over the road and reacts to surface changes greatly, not fun at high speed

the problem can be seen quiet well in this picture, not much lock and its almost touching, and this was before the adj lower arms were put in which mad matters worse
 

My suggestion would be to start small with the cuts. You shouldn't have too much trouble cutting that area for clearance. You'll also have to cut and shape the bottom of the front panel back towards the inner wing as that's what I found after fitting my arches.

I had the same drama with the rally car had to cut a fair bit away from memory and even the back of the arch has gotten a work out so im going to put arches on instead

Fordsy, thanks for the tip, as the the lower section that's what the mex spoiler is there for, hide all the crappiness,
 
MATTJ, did you just cut the guard out and leave the sharp edge or did u replicate the std arch and put a lip back on?? if that makes any sence, also do you have any pictures.

Rather than cutting the exterior body and making it look like an odd shaped abortion how about putting the wheel centred to the arch and modify the strut top to get the desired caster
would look beter an shouldnt be too hard.
Jp