Flared Guards Dilemma

[passin ewe]

As some of you would be aware, I recently purchased flares from Japan. There was a slight oversight on my behalf. The front ones fit nicely, and so do the rear, but I was,nt aware the rear one were made to suit a semi tubbed rear end. Your supposed to cut out your arches, I guess it makes sense as flared guareds are for putting bigger wheels under. Will cost $2000 to tub and then it must be approved by engineer, too much hassle. I think I might make extensions for the arch so that it covers the existing arch. I was going to bring a heavy duty hammer home from work an belt the crapper out of the arches, but on my coupe it's not exactly thin behind there, maybe lots of heat and accurate heavy handedness. Any ideas?

[noddle]

As some of you would be aware, I recently purchased flares from Japan. There was a slight oversight on my behalf. The front ones fit nicely, and so do the rear, but I was,nt aware the rear one were made to suit a semi tubbed rear end. Your supposed to cut out your arches, I guess it makes sense as flared guareds are for putting bigger wheels under. Will cost $2000 to tub and then it must be approved by engineer, too much hassle. I think I might make extensions for the arch so that it covers the existing arch. I was going to bring a heavy duty hammer home from work an belt the crapper out of the arches, but on my coupe it's not exactly thin behind there, maybe lots of heat and accurate heavy handedness. Any ideas?

Check this out

http://classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27682

Nigel

[dori34]

if you're going to pay 2k just to get the gauards tubbed to fit them flares, you're better off seeing a fibreglasser and get them to custom make the flares to suit the rear of your car.

[passin ewe]

Thanks Nigel, I just got off that site and now I think I know what i'm going to have to do.

PAY SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT.

I'm guessing you would have to take it to an engineer after to have it approved?

[66yostagea]

Not sure if this will help.

There is a roller that you can use to flare the guards. I know it works on S13 and 180s.

Also Google "mud guard flares"

Edited December 14, 2008 by 66yostagea

[noddle]

if you're going to pay 2k just to get the gauards tubbed to fit them flares, you're better off seeing a fibreglasser and get them to custom make the flares to suit the rear of your car.

If it's to much trouble, just drive it down to Tassie, and sell it to me :-)

edit: Just noticed it's not a 240K, so I don't need it..

Nigel..

Edited December 14, 2008 by noddle

[passin ewe]

Does anyone know if the 240k coupe and the C210 coupe are the same in the rear wheel arch department. If so i'm probably going to have a go at following 240k convertibles procedure. It's just that when you look at how far up you need to cut. on the inside of the guard it looks like the skins are quite wide apart( at least 32mm).

[racsov500]

are all 4 guards the same? dont look right, you would have to have big diameter wheels to fill those..

[V8skylineMAN]

I'm assuming by 240k you mean the c110. the C110 is a skyline, just like a c210. c210's are also known as 240k's

no, the rear guards are different.

[Mr Camouflage]

Is the back edge molded to the body. ie does it follow the contours of the side of the car exactly? I'm assuming it does, which make my next suggestion a bit pointless, but maybe you could mount them lower down on the car and chop the ends off? Otherwise cutting the guards out is probably the only solution.

[passin ewe]

Yea Mr Camo, the guards fit neatly against the body contours and Racsovn that's exactly what I'd be doing along with lowered springs.I think I'll put the flares on the back burner till I have the money to mini tub it." Oh that's right , Mr Rud just gave me $2000. Convince my wife that half is mine and now only need $1000, Thinking eh!

[noddle]

I'm assuming by 240k you mean the c110. the C110 is a skyline, just like a c210. c210's are also known as 240k's

no, the rear guards are different.

Does the C210 has a "240K" badge on it ?, Since I haven't seen one up close, I though the C110 was the only "240K"

Nigel

Edited December 14, 2008 by noddle

[passin ewe]

Noddle, there's nothing on my car saying 240k,and I don't refer to it as a 240K. To me that's the C110. Saying that I've driven into tyre, suspension, and automotive workshops and they've all refered to it as a 240K. I tell most people it's a C210 78 skyline, it's easier that way

[passin ewe]

Decided to go ahead with filling in some of the arch. I've fixed some light tin to the rear of the guard and I'll fibreglass over it. I'm still going to heat the arches and knock them out 20mm if possible." I just wanna get these guards on"

Will post a pic soon.

[Silent Shadow]

ahh it's a bugger that you hit an epic snag! really keen to see how these look in the end mate

[240k convertible]

The first photo you posted looks pretty similar to how my C110 looked before I chopped into it. You only need to cut the rear qtr just above where the bottom of the frp arch goes to, run a pen along the bottom of the arch, angled a little upwards and it will show nearly exactly how much will need to come off.

The amount of time it will take you with the filling & fibreglass will be similar to doing the welding & cutting of the arch.

I cut the front guards a lot higher than the rears, this was due to the gap that was appearing the higher you cut in the rears. With all the photos I've seen of lowered C210's I'd guess that they have a very similar depth wheel well to the C110 so it should be possible to cut them up. If you could take some shots of the inside of the C210 well I'd have a better idea.

Cheers Andrew

[240k convertible]

All Skylines look sweet with flares on,

[passin ewe]

I've got the next 2 days off and I'm going hard at my flares. The rear ones are going to be about 2 inches wider at the top once i've fibreglassed them. It may look a bit odd, but I'm just not prepared to cut into my arches at the mo. Maybe way down the track i'll order some more rear flares and do it all properly. i got offered some 15x8 mags today, they've got 235's on them, BUT he wants $1000 for them. The're off his 260z which he just sold. I've been told it'd be near impossible to find this size mag in 4 stud.

[passin ewe]

All Skylines look sweet with flares on,

Drooooooool Droooooool Sexsational

[blk180]

Wounder how the rear door opens on that black one maybe he has cut the flares?