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anyone know how to make fender flares?

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:18 pm
by Nemesis
werd, i wanna make some fender flares for my car...note the word MAKE...so i'ma tryin to figure out ways, the only way i can think of is sheet metal, but thats not a route i wanna take...what other materials are used? and has anybody here made, or fabricated your own? if so how?

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:05 pm
by slidewaysgolf
i have used a english wheel to make fenders for ARCA cars, but i have tried to use fiber glass and i found it much harder than sheet metal. lol it took me like 10 hours to make kick pannles for an old car of mine with fiberglass. I would sugest making your stock fenders wider, go to the junk yard and buy some fender for as cheep as you can i think there prety cheep at pulapart, then get you some body tools and just go at it, if any of this sounds like somthing you want to do i can give you like a list of tools and things you might need, hell if anything els with some creative welding and body work on a fender from a car like yours you may be able to get one slick enough to at least make a good mold for you to lay fiberglass on.

flares

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:33 pm
by CREXGO
FOERST thing that popped in my head.

I think you should gets some fenders off another car, maybe a similar car or exactly, then trim and bend them until you get what your looking for. Mock them up and weld in or rivet if you like that look.

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:15 pm
by andysapp
I don't know much about body work... but logistically getting an extra set of existing body panels from a junkyard seems like a good start. Maybe you could double up the body panels in a sense?

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:53 pm
by charlie
Nopi. Z3. Done.


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