Fender damage.

bt1211 · #1 June 13th 2006, 01:20

CCain I couldnt tell from your post. I am assuming that your fenders are metal?
If they are fiberglass, it is VERY easy to widen them yourself. If you dont mind sanding. The mat and resin will be less than $50. to do all four fenders.

ccain529 · #2 June 14th 2006, 20:43

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Originally Posted by bt1211

CCain I couldnt tell from your post. I am assuming that your fenders are metal?
If they are fiberglass, it is VERY easy to widen them yourself. If you dont mind sanding. The mat and resin will be less than $50. to do all four fenders.

Yeah, they are metal. I bent the inner lip out and cracked the paint. Kinda torqued me off due to the fact that the fenders were original to the car. I've decided to replace them with steel fenders which I'm going to flare. I'm goning to fix the drivers fender then hang the originals in the shop for safe keeping. I have some light background in metal work and body work so it shouldn't be too bad of a job. Besides, I like putzing around the shop. I'll post pics along the way but I hope they come out like the fenders on the Kafer Cup cars or the ones you get from Germany.

ccain529 · #3 June 18th 2006, 20:50

Well gang....
I started work on the new fenders. A buddy of mine across town had a set of early Super front and 74 rear fenders which I got for a song.
I took all the paint off of 'em. It's nice to work with bare metal and not have to worry as to what lies beneath. Anyway I finally got them all cleaned up and started marking and cutting for the flares. Looking at the pics, the fender will be cut out to the black line just about 2 inces above the fender lip.

The first photo is the fender as it was and the last pic is an abstract of what the fender will look like once the metal is welded into place.

More to come......

Cheers

Chris

ccain529 · #4 June 21st 2006, 22:02

Here are some pics of the front fender with the flare in place.
I still have to finish welding (I ran out of wire tonite) then all that's left to do is:
Clean up the headlight bucket, etch the metal, prime, sand, sand, sand some more, seal and paint.

wrenchnride247 · #5 June 21st 2006, 22:22

Very nice sheet metal work:righton:

ccain529 · #6 July 9th 2006, 17:48

I have one fender buttoned up and under primer. I still need to tweek it a little but I think it's going to come out OK!

beetle1303 · #7 July 9th 2006, 19:53

Really nice work dude:agree:

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