ceboyd

...so I noticed this rubbing sound going around some harder turns with my DSSRs at 2 tracks this spring... (and could never find the rub marks until I looked at the inside edge of the fenders by accident!)


...anyway, the bottom line was I guess I have so much negative camber that I would rub on very hard turns thus needing a fender roll.

...so Eric wanted to buy a fender roller anyway and did (for his own car as well -- the new EVO he has now)... and tonight he rolled my fenders

It turned out AWSOME!


Tomorrow will be the test at Blackhawk farms... although I don't have the DSSRs any more (now trying ADVAN A048s for the first time) so it'll be an interesting test.. I know that sound was unmistakable though (lol)

TroyN

Do you have pics? Assuming it's something noticeable.

ceboyd

I didn't take before photos but can attempt to take 'after' photos now to post..

The idea is to make it hard to notice so that looking at the car, it looks stock (at least IMHO anyway)


I think if you look for it and compare it to a factory stock 993, you would only THEN notice the difference...


anyway... I can't get any pics right now but I'll work on getting some within the next day or 2

ceboyd

o.k. I attempted a couple of quick photos with flash

You can see where the rolled portion starts...

Air Kuul TT

Nice... I have mine rollled too. Did Eric heat up the surface?

TroyN

That was a fast "day or two"! Hmm, that's pretty neat, and subtle too. Not that I have clearance issues, though have considered 295's and wondered if I would then. How much does a fender roller tool cost, roughly?

ceboyd

yes indeed!


he's done an Infiniti, a Mazda and now my 993 so far


(no problems with the paint on ANY of them either!)

simpateko

do you have 285 30 18 tires on the rear?
i had 295 30 on the rear and still slightly rubbed on the left side even after rolling the lips.
changed them to 285 30 today and seems to be fine now.
jeff

ceboyd

the roller tools aren't cheap .. prices vary from a cheapie one for around $350 to 'race team' made in usa for $750

...and eric still had to custom modify the one he got to make it work with the porsche bolt pattern..


Here's the other side shots for you 'all to enjoy

ceboyd

BTW: Let me make it perfectly clear that the spot with the paint missing is from my tire rubbing (and NOT from the fender roll process).. I still have to clear that up... ARG!!!


..nice thing is it is NOT at all visible unless you have the car on a lift or are lying down on the ground to look up into your fender.. lol

ceboyd

285 30 18... never tried 295 30 18

Mike J

I saw the body shop owner that I use (Boris Korva at Korva World Class Collision) roll a 911 fenders last week. Keep in mind he started working on auto bodies in Italy under Mr. Ferrari in the aluminium body shop. He did not use anything fancy but a baseball bat. He rolled the bat on the inside lip of the front tenders with significant force...the resulting job looked perfect with no paint cracking!

Then again this is the guy that I saw straighten out the metal of a crushed rear side fender of a 911 with a large hammer.....he had a few choice quite hard swings, switched to smaller hammer, a few more swings, smaller hammer....and continued on and when he was finished the fender was back to were it should be...all it needed was a little surface work and paint. Pretty amazing stuff!

Cheers,

Mike

Mark in Baltimore

Fenders can be rolled with a tapered rolling pin or small baseball bat. It's much, much easier to do than it sounds.

ceboyd

..except that method resulted in some paint cracking when eric did it on a different car --- actually, 2 different cars... (despite warming up the metal)


..the nice thing about the rolling fender tool is it has this urathane component that somehow i believe helps prevent paint damage...


..but for someone who can do with a bat without causing problems, more power to ya!!!!

c993k

Chris, your tires still look way too close or is it just the prospective?
Can you show us some photos taken further away? Thanks, Chris