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Originally Posted by E55 KEV
It has nothing to do with "wheel travel", but the original design. You can have the same length of suspension and parts and not have the unsightly gap. Actually the car is not high off the ground (comparing the chassis ground clearance) it just has the unnesseary gap. If you can design it in, you can design it out, just like BMW does. All BMW cars have minimum wheel gap because they put a little more sheet metal around the fender lips which merely give the appearance of lowered. All they had to do was add a little more sheet metal around the fender wheel wells.
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You're absolutely right KEV and it's my biggest complaint with these cars as well. It is something that we constantly strive to correct in our streetrods, and when it cannot be achieved with wheels/tires, it is a PITA to attempt to achieve with sheet metal or f'glass and still maintain the correct radius. I would have thought this would have been addressed in the design of the SRT-8. Certainly anyone that had the foresight to develop so unique a car in the first place should be able to recognize such a glaring flaw and re-engineer it. This, the missing chrome and the lack of a set-apart design feature as compared to the other models, has me second guessing my desire to trade when the time comes... doesn't exactly seem like a trade UP, especially considering all the additional negatives that have been posted previously.