Re: want rear fender flairs? Cut up your front fenders

["magicalbus2004" <magicalbus2004@xxxx>]

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "magicalbus2004" 
<magicalbus2004@xxxx> wrote:
> It works! Im making a one piece glass/carbon/kevlar/epoxy front 
> end./ OK so I got two perfectly good 74 gremlin fenders I'm not 
going 
> to use. I was planning to make 2 additional molds to flair the rear 
> fenders to match the new front end, but got a wild hair and and cut 
> up those fenders, Amc fenders are flaired nice on top but not on 
the 
> bottom so if you cut the top of the arch in half, one half for the 
> front lower and one half for the back lower the rear wells of your 
> car can flair at the top and bottom. Right now the top of the curve 
> is indented 3/4" I plan to take the wheels off tomorrow before I do 
> some serious hammering to the top of the inner fender and flair. I 
> should say this takes some serious planing and some progressive 
> welding and hammering to get the metal to conform, If you can't 
> figure it out maybe you should not try it. I just wanted to post it 
> as an idea. the bottom sheet metal caps and fillers a going to be 
> alot of work, But I'm happy I'll be able to use 10" rims with 5" 
back 
> space and it will be all sheet metal, no lines and no worrys of a 
> composite flair delaminateiing. Bruce 
J. 

Did the heavy hammering, God bless my neighbors, 
gained the inch outside I needed plus the lip is hammered flat on the 
top inside, inner fender also expanded at the top lay next to the 
outer skin. bent a piece of 1/8"x1/4" steel to a 29" diameter and 
welded it to the top of the now thined arch to regain the flat body 
line for the perimeter of the fender opening. I got the caps and 
fillers all fabricated and they are installed on the passenger side, 
the front flair intersects at the door opening and dies into the 
rocker panel.The rear fair is cut to match the upsweep of the rear 
pan, The full fair swooping into the pointy butt of the gremlin is a 
look you will see nowhere else. I turned 48 today, Euforia aside,I 
feel it. Bruce J.