As for the 74Weld portals or others for that matter, it's a path I considered before my SAS. There are pros and cons to everything and I'm happy I have the 14 bolt axle up front. For sure it's not for everyone but the cost of the 74Weld is high and you could easily get a d60 up front with lockers, gearing and links for less.

I'm also very heavy but I'm dumping my drawers and organizing tools and liquids differently. All in my pig is in the 6700# range and I use the snot out of it on the trails.

It's all about what you want to do with your rig. Most of you have vehicles road legal, mine is not. It could be, I just need dot tires

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You can drive it on the road with those tires! I'm originally from Hawaii and all the old school toyota truck guys used to drive 85 toyota pickups on 38" swampers daily lol.

Oh I have but it's not fun. With the pending new engine it will be another thing

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I have been running 295s which actually do measure to 33.5 and most 285s are smaller. Just saying.

I know run 35 Toyo MTs and I did the BMC, viper cut and added some 3d printed front bottom quarter panel plastic... Running BILSTEIN 8112s in the front and Dobinsons MRR long travel in the rear.

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Had to lift it 6" and regear it to 4:88.

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ill classify myself as a mall crawler and own it - unfortunately Wisconsin doesnt have a lot of off road trails... My "rig" is mainly used for carrying the ol braap braap bike to trails in UP - so it does see mud etc but not tons of flexing to argue against anyone on status.

That being said - i am running 35s (toyo at3s). I come from the car scene with throwing obnoxious wheels that dont fit and air ride suspension

Ive spoken to TRDHulk before, he is right alignment is key. Ive gone from 285s>295s>305s>35s

Each time from 295 to 35 youll have to cut more.
I am running almost all of my inner wheel well cover and end caps (although they are gutted pretty good).

Did have to cut back the pinch weld tabs pretty good behind the rocker caps - luckily right now my fenders are still aligned after smoking some dips offroad pretty good...

lots of trimming back the front bumper and hacking away metal attachment points - but dont rub full lock reverse or forward.
*EDIT - also flattened pinch welds on lower 6-8" on the bottom*

Can help whoever is looking just dm me - everyones probably right and know that if i were to take it out west it would be mangled upon return.


flame me roast me... dont really care, my names on the title not yours :-)

It looks good to me! Thanks for the detailed reply and your description. It seems like there are a lot of people on reddit etc I see posting having 35's and not cutting fenders which is what prompted the question for me. But they probably are not fully flexing out offroad either.

I definitely will need to use it offroad so that is where I see it being a problem from everyone else's replies. I live in CO and camp, fish and hunt with occasional trips out to NM and UT so I need to retain offroad capability without totally mangling the fenders. I am trying to be practical and realistic but it's hard to not want to push it a bit further.

i think the realistic solution is 285/75 unless I am ready to go all out and do LT and wide fenders.

I understand where you're coming from though as my old project car(g35) has air and I used to run crazy wheels with lots of camber as well. I eventually got over that and put some normal fitting wheels on it but it just sits on a lift in my garage now. My new daily RS5 is more practically(adult) modded lol.

I have a friend that didn't really cut any fenders outside of maybe a slightly larger TRD Pro bumper mod.... but the front end still looks factory. He has Dobinsons C59-354 front springs (Dobi IMS shocks) and C59-701v rear. He has -12 offset methods and 35x12.50R17 Yoko Geolander MTs. He had do do the body mount and pinch weld and he may have had some slight rubbing but nothing to cause any issues when we got if fully articulated.

envy you on living out west - im 100% if i had use for off trail riding I easily would have gone the 285/75 route for sure.
my brother you are with the air ride slamming 18x12 -20 on a 225 tire
like your upgrade to the rS5
Id like to get something to track living about 40 mins away from Road America but bikes are fraction of the cost and just as fast (so maybe another sport bike in the future) - i also dont have a lot of storage

Anything i can help you out wise with fitment just let me know

yea it became too much of a pain to deal with stretched tires and camber so I stopped doing that a few years ago. ill attach a couple pics of previous setups, though overall I probably have had 15 sets of name brand wheels on it over the years. It's currently on a conservative set of advan RZ's but its now a "go fast" project car build that im taking too long to finish.

The RS5 is my "adulting" car but its still modded lol. BC forged custom wheels, H&R coilovers, unitronic carbon intake, Milltek race exhaust, IE ECU/TCU Tune, all the 034 aluminum body reinforcements and custom carbon steering wheel. Classy but still decently fast.

I will probably go with 285/75 or 285/70 for now and think about future plans such as LT front to "properly" fit 35's.

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