All this box flare talk has me thinking flares - but not the box kind. Does anyone make flares which could be cut and blended to match a variety of cars? Fiberglass would work too, but I like steel...
All this box flare talk has me thinking flares - but not the box kind. Does anyone make flares which could be cut and blended to match a variety of cars? Fiberglass would work too, but I like steel...
Dodge Omni.
Maybe Porsche 911 Turbo style flares. They are reproduced in steel and could possibly be adapted to anything with flat sides...in theory
to add on, how do you get fiberglass to stick to metal? the answer will severely sway my decision on a very near future purchase...
In reply to Rusty_Rabbit84:
I'm no expert, but I've had good results with marine grade epoxy adhering to steel.
Rusty_Rabbit84 wrote: to add on, how do you get fiberglass to stick to metal? the answer will severely sway my decision on a very near future purchase...
Rivets and body filler.
right on guys! I appreciate it...
Boddy filler and news paper 
rivets - evercoat has a fairly new kevlar filler that I'm hoping works good on the transition - but newspaper's good too
Spray foam, electric knife, cheese grater and fiberglass.
Cucumber, duct tape, and a swiss army knife..... oh sorry I thought this was a MacGyver thread.
With regard to the flare question: Dodge Omni and VW Rabbit ones both work pretty well. I'm using the latter on my MG.
Dont the hondas with neon lights put Z3 flares on them?
914-6 flares are available in steel and pretty flat, albeit sort of odd looking. I'm sure they'd easily fit anything as slab-sided as a 914 lolz.
These are fiberglass but look like they could be easily cut to fit a bunch of other stuff. Used to be popular with z-car guys.
I've been wanting to hot up one of these:
But haven't seen a good flare execution yet.
I think you're supposed to tub those, not flare them.
In reply to Keith:
That's what's commonly done, but why be a copycat?
Here's a good flare execution on an older car:
For my project, I found that AWR makes a flare set for the Miata that was almost a direct fit for the TVR that I am building:
Like the saying goes from the 1/25 scale models, "some assembly required". I'll have to do a little work here and there to fully get them to blend with the car, but it was a whole helluva lot easier than starting from scratch.
In the pic, the Miata fronts are on the rear, and vicey-versey -- I might end up with another set of Miata fronts on the front -- they seem to look better.
-jeff d
Hi Folks, My first post here. I show a couple of different ways to make steel flares in my youtube videos below.
http://tinyurl.com/custom-metal
John www.ghiaspecialties.com
Depending on your metalworking skills you can:
Buy a second set of fenders (and/or quarters), set them off the orginal fenders by 2-4-6" whatever, cut to your desired size, fill in the gaps with sheet metal, and then remove to clearance out the original fender.
^^^Grossly oversimplified, but if you're going to be using newspaper as a filler...
In reply to jamscal:
Interesting.....great idea.
JohnKelly wrote: Hi Folks, My first post here. I show a couple of different ways to make steel flares in my youtube videos below. http://tinyurl.com/custom-metal John www.ghiaspecialties.com
Cool.
Welcome to GRM!
In reply to JohnKelly: Thanks. That's mighty inspirational!
kreb wrote: In reply to Keith: That's what's commonly done, but why be a copycat? Here's a good flare execution on an older car:
Awesome. That red Vette just makes me waaaay too happy inside..
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