blown 87

Front fenders off (that was a bitch) patch panels cut, and a big thanks to ROG for the patch panels.
Ready to weld in.
I will post some of them welded in.

blown 87

I saw that on yours, I wanted to take the fenders off for a couple of reasons, one was so they could take the bottom of the head light parts off to paint and buff.

The biggest reason is I am not that good a welder.

dr bob

Aluminum 928 fenders are probably not the right place to hone your welding skills. Plus, all that pretty filler will need to come off. Or it will come off when the welding gets underway and the panel there gets hot. In the meanwhile, practice your aluminum welding skills on pop cans. You can still get your deposit back on those if you warp them.

blown 87

I agree that this is not the place for a welder of my skills to try.
I have a pro coming to the shop to do it for me.

blown 87

Got them welded.






The lack of progress is not good.

Nicole

That's going to look awesome when finished! Thank you very much for sharing the details or this modification!

JHowell37

The undercoat should be a urethane base, not the asphalt/petrol based crap they sell at autozone. "Moisture bleed-through" should not be a problem unless you hired a ****ty welder. But as a general rule there's no need to take chances. As I said make sure you get the urethane based undercoat. On the outside, you're going to need some filler once you grind down the welds. Get some fiber-glass reinforced filler. It doesn't matter whether you use long strand or short strand. Short strand is easier to use. So use it if you have the option. Fiberglass reinforced filler is highly water/moisture resistant. After that, you can go to either a glazing filler or straight your epoxy or high-build.

Ispeed

Big thumbs up, I never liked the marker lights.

blown 87

Too late now.

Abby Normal

Greg,

Is that your shop or a body shop you have do your work?

blown 87

That is the body shop.

Heres a couple of my shop.

Kevin Michael

Anyone else doing this mod should use SEM panel adhesive or equivilent. Welding aluminum on the 928 is tricky at best, and looking at those welds you see my point. I will be doing this soon as well. Jhowell37 offers good advice in his post.
Kevin

Nicole

I have never met anybody who does. They look like an afterthought, and it shows when you need to change a bulb.

Since not everybody is in the position to delete them, I try to offer at some relief with the clear lenses, and the long lasting LEDs.

On my own car I tinted the markers to be as close to the body color as possible, making them a lot less obvious. It's as close as I could get to deleting them.

Andrew Olson tinted his front markers red on his red car, and I've done a black tinting job on a pair of the lenses.

I leaned that unless you want the tint to be really, really dark, you get the longest lasting results by tinting the inside of the clear lenses, and the best look when combining the tinted lenses with black housings.

If you want to go really dark and need to tint on the outside, don't forget a layer of clearcoat, so the tint is protected from scuffs, chips, polish, and other bad influences...

Nicole

Couldn't you just grind the welds to be even?

What would you suggest to close the holes for the side moldings?

blown 87

That is what we used to fill the holes on the rub strip delete.
The body guy was worried about the size of the hole in the front fenders.