Wide arch kit

[Seat slag]

Hello!

I need some guidance on where to purchase a wide arch kit for my 97` Seat Ibiza GTI Cupra. My arches are beginning to flake like a flapjack and i need some quick info if possible.

Many thanks

 

[AlpineWhite]

Good luck with that, don't know of any kits for the Ibiza.

Not a good idea to cover up rust with fibreglass, best to get the rust cut out really.

 

[orangemuffin]

Once upon a time i did see a mk2 8v on piston heads with some sort of arch kit add on....looked very odd.

 

[Dave_R]

Once upon a time i did see a mk2 8v on piston heads with some sort of arch kit add on....looked very odd.

And there was that copper colour wiv the 20vT lump on piston heads..... had some sort of wide arch kit on it!

But good luck finding the F2 arches

 

[C11PRA DC]

There's some Genuine SEAT Mk3 spats on ebay at the mo!

 

[surcalation]

The arches are out there, the moulds however are not. Been discussed in depth many a times on the board but know one has enough pennies to get the moulds and then make a few fibreglass kits.

Come on 6 numbers on a Friday/Saturday night and I'll do it

Or you can just have some custom ones made! Like I did about 3yrs ago

 

[martin_hill_198]

cudnt u just buy a after market body kit and get the blended in

 

[thewilfmeister]

he could but then again not really solving the problem just hiding it!

isn't there someone nearby who can cut out the rust and weld a plate in and smooth it over..or something to that extent

 

[Ibiza Dan]

Maybe just get the arches pulled/stretched a bit and then re-painted?
There going to need painting anyway so why not?
Seems like the obvious option, looks cool as hell, and you dont have a s**t load of crap fibreglass stuck all over your car!

 

[Seat slag]

Ive seen the wide arch kits out there but they are all made from either fibre glass or plastic. I want to keep the body work metal for obvious reasons.
Wider arches means a lower car...oh yeaah!

 

[Dave_R]

Ive seen the wide arch kits out there but they are all made from either fibre glass or plastic. I want to keep the body work metal for obvious reasons.
Wider arches means a lower car...oh yeaah!

If you ever found a F2 kit then you will need to space the wheels out, either the cowboy huge spacers or changing the rear beam and getting longer lower arms and drive shafts!!!

If you think to get the F2 arches and don't space the wheels out then it would like gay!

If you wanna go as low as you can possibly go then get your arches rolled or cut out the rusty lip and thats sorted then.

 

[orangemuffin]

is it worth it mate ?

would it not be better to get the rust cut out and mended ?

 

[AlpineWhite]

is it worth it mate ?

would it not be better to get the rust cut out and mended ?

I ponder this all the time!

 

[Dave_R]

Don't think he knows how much work is needed to fit the F2 arches, not just body wise but mechanical!

 

[orangemuffin]

I fear its my terribly cynical view on doing anything cosmetic with a car.

Engine mods, albeit debatable are more likely to generate a bit of a better return when it comes to selling your motor….BUT I know we don’t think of that when we do things….( before everyone hammers for saying that )

Its just that ( sorry for this in advance ) you could spend a few £££ on doing the wide arch work and then someone ( ask crezz ) could drive into your car and scarper off….

Leaving you screwed….


I hope you can see where I am coming from….please don’t hate me.

 

[Fl@pper]

I ponder this all the time!

do it - great fun andf free sunburn

Don't think he knows how much work is needed to fit the F2 arches, not just body wise but mechanical!

u wait til he see's how bad just a repair can get

 

[crezz]

yes very true

 

[surcalation]

or get the mk3 one and have a play in a bodyshop

http://www.m-99.co.uk/Car_Bodykits/Seat_Ibiza/seat_ibiza.html

fibreglass tho

 

[hopkinsgm]

...http://www.m-99.co.uk/Car_Bodykits/Seat_Ibiza/seat_ibiza.html...

Surcalation - what have you done? My eyes have gone a bit funny. There was a bunch on Ibiza's, but, well, I think they were Ibiza's but they all looked a bit funny. And not in a good way. That's some seriously fugly kit at the end of that link...

...If you think to get the F2 arches and don't space the wheels out then it would like gay!...

Back in the day - and we're talking a good few years back here - there was a kid in Middlesbrough (where I grew up) who had a Metro. And I mean here like an Austin Mini Metro here, none of your new-fangled Rover Metro with its' fancy pants K series motor. Anyways, he'd splashed out on some kind of a 6R4 lookielike kit and had it fitted. I think it must have left him a bit short of funds or something as we used to see this absolute shed of a car rattling round on factory steels with sitting about 8" inside the arches. Who knows how (if?) the 1 litre A series would have coped with anything bigger. Not cool.