I started cutting up the wheel well to fit a 15x10 and a 275 tire. There are two layers of steel for the bump stop. Can i take a majority of both layers of it out and just weld up lose ends cause it dosent look structural.

 

I only cut the outer layer to fit my 11"s w/7"bs, so it really depends on your backspacing, as to how much you'll need to cut out.

Do you want to cut both layers for some reason? Or just think that you'll need to?

 

I have a 15x10 with 6.5 backspacing and a 275/60/15 tire. I'm just wondering what everyone else hase done. I have the first layer cut out and have the second layer exposed. Just wondering if it structural and I need to weld a second plate back in or just leave it as it is.

 

"Just a driver" or "race car"? Slicks? Drag launches?

Mine is cut out & nothing put back in, but mine is simply a driver. Occasional burnout. Occasional quick start from a Stop sign or red light, but never slicks or even a drag strip. So I think I'm safe.

There was a time, before I cut mine out, that I would have said NO!!!! But after being like this for a few months & having no ill results, its "safe". Obviously more metal would + stronger in being rear ended or something like that, but oh well.....

After seeing a car that was cut up & disposed of, I was able the see that in reality & felt better about doing my cutting.....Those 2 layers didn't seem to contribute a whole lot to the basic structural rigidity of our chassis, since there is a boxed section above them. The blue box shows the 2 layers I cut and in the red box, you can see the 3rd layer that I left.


And you'll see that where the bumpstop mounts, 2 pieces coming from opposite directions, overlap a 3rd layer & are spot welded together. So in essence, the middle of the cut area, under the bumpstop, is 3 layers.


After cutting off the bumpstop itself, here is what I ended up with, but the "bump ridge" was still in my way


So I cut out the 2 overlapping layers


And here is what I ended up with

 

Its mostly a street car with some mickey thompson radials and with some occasional trips to the track maybe once or twice a year. The pics helped alot and I feel a little safer now. I'm actually where your last pic is now. I think I going to weld the outer layer to the inner layer just for the hell of it and then under coat the whole thing and try and make it look stockish.

 

I wanna weld mine too, but I was so tired from cutting, test fitting, taking them off, cutting, test fitting, taking them of......It got old & I was tired. So I tightened up the lug nuts & that is where it sits.

I did have to do some cutting of the forward section of the inner wheel well to clear the tire itself too. I just never took pics so I cam only tell you about it, not show you pics of that part.

 

I have the front of the wheel well cut up too. The part the looks like a flange that runs from up top of the inside to the bottom. And the some of the bottom part of the wheel well was cut out also. How much room are you playing with around your tires. Mines a little on the tight side right now maybe 1/4". Dont want to be cutting up my new tires and dont need to have a blow out when i'm screwing around.

 

A good 1/2" clearance, at the very least. I knew I only wanted to do it once & not hafta get into it again, so I went a little crazy with some of my cutting & mini-sledge hammer work.

It would been SO MUCH easier up on a lift, instead of on my knees & trying the bend over, reach in & swing the sledge in the limited room.

 

So looks like i got some hammer work to do then. 1/2" clearance here I come.

 

 

Thanks for the pic but it seems I had to take out alot more at the front of the wheel well then that pic. What tire are you running in the pic ?

 

You had to take out more than that pic, for a 10" rim, with less bs than my 11" with 7" bs?

I didn't take that much out for mine. Just some sawzall work to the lower front and hammer the rest of the way up, to the top center area.

 

In the front of the wheel well I believe I had to take out more. I'm talking closer to the bottom though. Its not the rim that was the problem but the tire.

 

Tall tire?

My rim wasn't was hit, just the tire. But with less bs on a narrower wheel, the tires inner sidewall should been further out than mine was, yet you had to cut more.....That is what I don't understand.

 

28" tall tire. When i get home today i will look and the pics I took and post them up. I might be slightly retarded and my memory is off. From whats in your sig (315/35/17) your tires are a hair under 26" so i have 2 inches more on my 275's which might be the reason for the more cutting in the front.

 

Yeah, that would make a difference. You have 1" more tire interference to deal with & I know making clearance for the wheel itself was way easier that clearancing for the tire, on my car.

 

Found the pics of what I had to cut in the front of the wheel well. Just not welded up yet.

 

BFH 10"wheel with 5.5"bs on mine.doesnt stick out @ all. im running 275 60 hoosiers.

 

If a 17x11 fits, why would you need to trim for a 15x10?