In the midwest the salt and rust already removed the area you need to remove for clearance on most of ours. Lol

Good luck with the project and hope you win the race. It would piss the rest of the drivers off if you win or any vehicle that gets passed by a Gen 3 Camry!

 

I see your from Cleveland. Why are your wheel wells not rusted out too. No fair. Lol. Good luck with the project!

I need to do a similar mod just so I can stop thrashing the exhaust flex pipes on my driveway/street curb!

 

Yes, Lakewood area. Don't be tricked, the wheel wells are pretty rusty. Bondo and spray paint masked the car to look okay from 20 feet away... In the dark.... When raining.

 

I think this is cool, I'd love to see your off-road Camry journey. It's your car, have fun with it! Just be careful safety wise!

 

I am fairly sure those wheels won't clear the struts.

 

I'm hoping the 2" wheel spacers will allow enough room. Fingers crossed.

 

Here's one we prepared earlier:

 

Do you have any idea how they did that? Ive been wanting to do something like this to my camry 4th gen for a while
thanks.

 

The flex pipe in that one probably does not scrape the curb!

That thing is beast!

 

I expect that it is a truck chassis with a Camry body plopped on.

 

Planning ahead is less fun that jumping in without a plan. These are Jeep rims, so 15" x 7" rims with a +1" offset, as opposed to the stock steel on there now of 14" x 5.5" with +1.75" offset. If my math is correct, the back surface of the rims are... in the the exact same place, 4.5" back the rim mating surface. Huh. So it looks like I will be totally dependent on the 2" rim spacer to clear the spring perch on the strut. Anyone know how much the spring perch overlaps the inside edge of the rim?

 

Your math is correct for your wheel and tire offset. That jeep wheel is going to offer the same backspacing as the current steelie; however the jeep tire is likely going to stick quite a bit further back than the tires on the steelies. The backspacing will be fine to clear the caliper.

235s on a 7" wheel requires a decent amount of pinching, you can even see it in the picture how much the 235s are bulging out compared to the 195. The spring perch is gonna be located probably around mid to mid high sidewall on those tires closest to the bulge - but it would boggle my mind if your 2" spacers and the jeep wheels don't alleviate any issues with strut clearance since you are basically adding -2.75" offset compared to stock, that is a lot of room for tire - you could probably go an inch wider on the tires and still clear it without problem. Jealous lol.

The real issue you're looking at is what to do to that corner of the chassis to make room for the tire diameter; you're gonna need to cut a lot of little pieces out so I'd probably figure out some way to reinforce between the underbody rails and pinch welds after you're done cutting.

 

The wheel spacers came in. Now I'm really itching for the weekend to come. Hopefully it's not bitter cold.

 

The wheel spacers came in. Now I'm really itching for the weekend to come. Hopefully it's not bitter cold.
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Where did you source long enough wheel studs? Those are nice looking spacers, not inexpensive I am sure.
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Wow! I'm really excited to see how all the wheel well parts mate together and if it rides well and doesn't scrape over big bumps. Might wanna take it over to the local grocery store and hit some speed bumps at a decent speed (10 mph).

Good luck, and I look forward to more updates!

 

"and if it rides well" - making a car "stance" usually makes the ride go downhill (and the durability of all the suspension parts), but one can always hope

 

As long as it doesn't ride like total garbage, I will be happy.
A couple of months back I put on new struts, springs, rear lateral control arms, passenger cv axel, rotors, calipers, brake line, used set of tires, radiator, coolant hose, thermostat... it's riding good now. These future changes will certainly take a step in the wrong direction in terms of 'quality/smoothness of ride'. But I'll surely intimidate the old people at the grocery store!

 

You will now have your town’s “Scary Looking” car. The Creepy Car. The one that makes old people gasp and mothers grab their kids hands. Congrats. Lol

 

...you keep on telling yourself that.

 

The 2" spacers alone would barely allow these tires to fit. The tires I'm putting on the back are decently worn, so if they were new, they may contact the spring perch in the back. The front struts have more room and wouldn't be an issue.

Ended up spacing the struts up to allow more room. The fronts have a 2" spacer in place, and the backs have 3.5" spacer, but the back looks way too high, so may bring that down to 2"
I didn't get a chance to trim the fenders, so the car hasn't been driven yet. This is still the early stages. Plan to have this done during the week, but this is it so far.

Before:

After:

Before:

After:

The iphone camera gave the photo a bit of a fish eye look to get it all in the photo, and I will measure it, but there is a decent rake to the car which I do no like.

 

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Perhaps this beauty for sale will give you more ideas, and laughs

 

I've been looking for those wheels for my Jeep and you have them for your Camry lol

 

I helped a friend do something similar with a 90-something Hyundai Scoupe. I kept the pics if you need some motivation to do something dangerous.

*It didn't get driven on the road after this

 

"*It didn't get driven on the road after this" - ouch!

 

I think it's funny seeing all the lifted Camry's out there. Thank you for sharing these.

I used metal brackets in similar fashion to raise the suspension.
Last night on the maiden voyage, it drove okay on a 5 mile loop, so I drove it to work today. 23 miles with most of it on the highway. Forgot how much louder all terrain tires are. With the larger tires increasing the rotating mass, power steering feels too strong. Takes very little effort to turn the steering wheel when moving.
Fenders trimmed, though they need a little more removed:

 

heres a standard Subaru with custom A arms and shocks with 10/12" of travel... $9k later!

parts made by this shop

Subaru EJ long travel struts

I found them because they make hardened tool steel shift forks for the E153 transmission

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Pair of shift forks to fit the Toyota E153 five speed manual transaxle found in Toyota Celica All Trac and turbo MR2. Made from billet chromoly steel and heat treated for maximum toughness. Fix the weakest link in the MR2 transmission with a pair of these forks.

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$500 !!
dog gears too!

Dog Engagement Conversion for Toyota Celica, MR2, Scion, Lotus

tested to 1200 HP!

 

Damn, wish I had the money for a setup like that. That much suspension travel would be ideal.

 

Just picked up retired road signs to use as skid plates, and a push bar from a police charger.

 

Just picked up retired road signs to use as skid plates

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legally I hope! haha

 

Push bar is now attached. Just need to buy a lightbar to attached to the hood since the high beams are partially blocked.

 

Half the stuff in mad max never would've happened if people drove modified camrys like in OP's photos. Nobody would worry about parts since these things outlast the heat death of the universe