04-06-2009, 10:14 AM
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The wheels I'm planning on putting on is Konig Hotswap 18"x9" with a 90mm lip in the front and 18"x9" in the back with a 120mm lip... The lip size may change... I have to measure it out to make sure once the fenders and rear quarter panels are done
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04-06-2009, 12:12 PM
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so your still going to mold the fiberglass flares to the metal fender?
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04-06-2009, 12:38 PM
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You got beat by an Alero!
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I think its going to look good, however I dunno anything about body work so I cant really comment on what the others are saying is gonna happen, but if it was me i would just do all metal just cause I wouldnt want to have to worry about it getting messed up as bad as they say it will.
God knows I have wasted a ton of money on stuff for the ho only for it to be a waste cause I didnt do it the right way the first time.
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04-06-2009, 03:21 PM
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My vents on my fenders should be done this evening... I'll post pics as soon as I'm done and the are on the car... The flares won't be on it yet... they still have yet to come in and they will only be primed until I'm ready for my new paint job.
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04-06-2009, 03:29 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by volfenhag_alero
My vents on my fenders should be done this evening... I'll post pics as soon as I'm done and the are on the car... The flares won't be on it yet... they still have yet to come in and they will only be primed until I'm ready for my new paint job.
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ok....so you are molding them on after a couple of months you will regret it, but w/e its your car do what you want
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04-06-2009, 03:34 PM
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You got beat by an Alero!
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Originally Posted by billytheman1188
ok....so you are molding them on after a couple of months you will regret it, but w/e its your car do what you want
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yeah i think he's already established that he's gonna do what ever he wants..... not that thats a bad thing for him. but it may just be a bad thing in the long run.
I know for me it takes me being stubborn before I realize that sometimes my way or my wants are not always the best way of doing things
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04-06-2009, 06:07 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by volfenhag_alero
The wheels I'm planning on putting on is Konig Hotswap 18"x9" with a 90mm lip in the front and 18"x9" in the back with a 120mm lip... The lip size may change... I have to measure it out to make sure once the fenders and rear quarter panels are done
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what are the offsets....
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04-06-2009, 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by pimpalero2003
Bdyman I got in a hit and run front wasn't molded small crack in bumper and buckled the hell out of the fender and then another time drive scraped badly took small little chunk out of bumper and buckled my other fender. So my fiberglass bumper is stronger then my fenders but I have like one of the first aed bumpers richies old one.
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Most fiberglass is going to be like that. It'll bend and crack, but not dent. For example, when I totalled my Alero, the FG fenders took the full force of the hit, and came out with lots of chips and a few cracks, but overall they had their shape still and could be fixed in an afternoon. If my fenders were metal they would've gotten dented/smashed beyond recognition. It's because fiberglass has memory, take a hammer to a metal fender, it'll leave a dent. Take a hammer to a fiberglass fender and it'll either leave a hole, or just crack and return back to it's shape.
But anyways
To those saying to just let him work... we're trying to save him headaches later when the fender flares inevittably crack...
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04-06-2009, 06:18 PM
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but like he said... he doesn't have the access to metal shaping tools.
let him add the fiberglass ones. see if any of us like it, and if/when it cracks/breaks... THEN find access to metal ones and do it again.
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04-06-2009, 07:06 PM
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3500 DONE!
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Originally Posted by cherrington17
let him add the fiberglass ones. see if any of us like it, and if/when it cracks/breaks... THEN find access to metal ones and do it again.
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cherry....that was by far the dumbest thing you have ever posted why not do it the right way the first time? im sure there are shops or metal places around him that can make a metal copy of his fiberglass ones. sure you may have to pay a chunk of $$$ but it will be done right and you wont have to worry about it in the future. but im sick of saying this.....
go ahead and try to mold that to the fender
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04-06-2009, 07:29 PM
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Just crack in gel coat bumpers solid no flex at all
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04-06-2009, 08:40 PM
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let him do it his way and when it looks like shit we can laugh at him. he knows what he's doing 'he made the bumper' didnt he...
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04-06-2009, 08:51 PM
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04-06-2009, 08:52 PM
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I like it, I love the custom works....
And for the people that say that FG will Crack, my hood is a metal one with a custom vent made of fiberglass and it hasn't cracked if you use the right adhesive it will last forever, now they do glue that are stiffer then weld...
It will crack if your wheel hit it while rolling or something but other than that it shouldn't crack if it was made properly
Last edited by guiguilandry : 04-06-2009 at 08:55 PM.
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04-06-2009, 09:09 PM
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So far it looks ok, but are you going to do something with the rear also? I dont know, the front fenders look kind of disproportionate to the rear now.
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04-06-2009, 10:23 PM
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Wrong it will crack no matter what in time they have different properties!!
Go on fiberglass forums and say glass on metal will last forever!
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04-06-2009, 10:27 PM
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http://fiberglassforums.com/showthread.php?t=4792
There's the sticky if you do it proparly it will last for awhile and depending where you live it will eventually crack
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04-06-2009, 10:46 PM
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what the hell is the sewage plumbing pipe coming threw your fender ? looks like my drainage pipe..lol
flares cant possible look good with those,unless your going to flare it out below the vent line, just running the flares to the bottom is going to offset horrible
Last edited by paulyb : 04-06-2009 at 10:56 PM.
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04-06-2009, 11:17 PM
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i think it looks pretty great man. yeah it does look kind disproportional from the back but im sure you have something in mind for that. what do you plan on doing to the rear?
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04-06-2009, 11:56 PM
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not to shabby, is that evercoats duraglass??? if ya used there new stuff, it would have been better for ya its made for stuff like what you did,
fusor makes a adhesive to bond 2 different material together its great stuff
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