The wife''s very wide 996

So last summer my misses sold her rare yellow rs4 cab after Owning Audi's for years. We looked around as she fancied something Totally different. We'd been to a few meets and seen a few 996's she liked. So the hunt started and being totally honest we didn't really know much about them or specs etc. Anyway she knew she wanted one with the aero kit. We found a yellow one she loved but the guy was asking strong money and wouldn't really budge on price and was asking 24k. Then this popped up, seemed really good value and only 66k miles. We travelled to London and did the deal. She drove home a happy girl. We then did some more research and realised what a great spec we'd found making it seem an even better deal. She absolutely loved how it drove as she doesn't like cars to modern. In this pic we had changed the wheel colour to gold and fitted 1 new rear tyre as the centres were in poor condition in the first week of ownership.

So the car is a Carrera 4 with lovely nephrite green interior and lots of carbon which works lovely against the black 8) Next job my mate came over and we gave it a machine polish and I found some muffler deletes to add some noise. Excuse the misses thinking she's a model :roll: :lol:

An interior pic showing the carbon, it also has the door entry kick plates

I'm sure I speak for everybody on here when I say that your missus will be most definitely be excused. It took me a while to realise there was car in the picture too but as soon as I did I felt compelled to advise you that a Carrera 4 isn't a wide bodied 996 - sorry.

:lol: :lol: :lol: Yes it isn't in the pics Ive posted yet I'm going through my pics to post progress. When i get to the now pics and the 13.5" rear wheels at et minus 70 you'll see how wide it really is :lol: The purists will have to look away soon lol

The interior was in great shape but the leather key Surround was all scratched so I got a mate to carbon Skin a new one which really finished it off lovely

Ah-ha I see what you're doing now. ......... opcorn: ...... :thumb:

Right this is where things got a little serious and many will probably want to look away :roll: Myself and the misses have a bit of a media following we've both modified cars for years. An English guy Dom who now lives in Majorca contacted us. He'd spent years building a widebody 996 very much an RWB style. He asked if we wanted to work with him. He'd built his car and after years had the moulds made to reproduce the kit. They were being made in Nottingham, so he flew back to the uk so Michelle's car could be the first to try the kit. This wasn't an easy decision it's always hard to cut up a perfectly good car. A lot of the purists gave us crap saying why do it to such a nice car. Our thoughts we paid a good price for it, it's was a great spec and I knew I'd get a few grand for the aero parts so we went for it. Cut open the arches and welded them back up.

The kit was so wide we even had to turn some wheels inside out so the barrel was out side and the dish inside to try and see how it would all work. Doms car was a c2 so had no issue with rolling radius. I always knew this would cause issues at some point :nooo:

I sold the rear spoiler but did quite like the look. And now looking back at these pics I wish I'd kept The 911 badge as feel it needs something now we are further down the line

Here you can really see it starting to take shape. I think Dom has done a great job of the kit but there's a few Bits I feel needed breaking up a little. Dom had a Centre exhaust exit but I think the rear bumper is so big that going back to side exit ones like oem was a better idea. He was fine for me to tweak what I preferred

Dom then had to go back home so I had to collect it. My painters couldn't fit me in for a while so we just rattle canned the arches So it didn't look quite as bad lol Does anyone remember the film condor man ? :lol: :lol:

So at this point it was a bit of a waiting game. I then started to think about wheels and how we could fill these ridiculous Arches. I bought some 3 piece cargraphics and then some wider lips. These were the fronts we stepped out to 19x10 and with 25mm spacers filled the front. The rears without going absolutely stupid on the rear dish I just could not get them to work. So back to square one :roll:

Finally the painters could take the car in, I like to get my hands dirty so I went and helped strip is all back ready for the black primer. That always helps with stone chips on dark cars. You can see the width here with the 18x10 rear with a 25mm spacer fitted.

Condorman makes an appearance in this old thread; http://911uk.com/viewtopic.php?t=39327&start=0&sid=1df5bbf819f0d26c1dfbcd29acb02a9c