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Originally Posted by California98Civic
The shadows cast onto the hood by the lightsfitten onto on the front bumper suggest the shape of a fairing you could make for them, no? In the photo, you can imagine the shadow is the fairing and conceive how it might look:
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A good point, but this video suggests its not needed, I plan to do my own tuft testing to confirm on this car.
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Originally Posted by redneck
No more scrunching down...
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Those lights look impressive in the video but are absolutely useless in the real world, the hot spot is so small and so far away that it doesn't improve vision at all
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Originally Posted by aardvarcus
This thing is just begging for a stand-alone Electric rear axle out of the Highlander Hybrids to make it all wheel drive.
At one point I had 26 1/2 inch tires on a car that was supposed to have 24 inch tires. (2002 Celica) The ground clearance was simply amazing, mainly because you didn't have big differentials hanging down.
If you are actually serious about taking on a trail, you would really want to have a winch or come along to get you out of sticky situations. I would also suggest rolling the fenders so that you can fit some even larger all-terrain tires on it. Your biggest weakness is you're not going to be able to beat on the suspension, you'll need to drive gingerly. Skid plates to protect the Bottom would also go a long way.
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An electric rear axle would be epic! Well outside the budget for this build at the moment though.
I have recovery boards, various straps, shovel and high lift jack so far, winch is on the list of things to do, probably on a portable mount that can go in the rear hitch reciever or another one i plan to integrate in the front bumper.
These tyres are probably one size larger than my ideal balance between off road ability and on road manners, going bigger reduces gearing too much to make it worthwhile.
Skid plates are probably the next mod il do, i want a full flat floor to get some of the aero back that i lost with big wheels.