Just to show some progress and Im bored.

Few pics of my RSR fender flair installation.

Car before Installation:





Parts Test fit and riv-nuts installed






Fenders cut out:





Paint:





First stage finished:





Still needs wing, wheels etc... Always something. This will never end will it?

 

Wow that was fast... Looks great. I have been thinking about it but just can't get around doing the cutting as yet. Awesome. What kit did you buy? Were you able to stretch your fiberglass bumper to match the new fender?

Nice work. Love it.

 

superb job

 

Who make that kit?

How are you going to push the wheel out? Spacers?

I noticed the front suspension has mounting points which can be moved out. Wonder if that would work.

 

Ok, not sure if I can mention a vendor thats not a sponcer so PM me for that. If it turns out they are a sponcer then I will happily give their name.

Second, yes the fiberglass bumper easily flairs out to match the new fender. At the bumper it only flairs out about 1/2 to 3/4 an inch. By my measurments the flairs gave me 1 and 3/4 inches more width in clearance front and rear. Advertised was 1 inch front and 1.5 rear but I saw more than that especially front. Other thing was it gave me slightly more height of the arch of the fender.

Wheels will be replaced with wider wheels. Plan is for 10s up front and 11 to 11.5s out back. Still working thta out with the wheel builder and Chris C.

As for the front suspension, yes you can move it out. I plan to do this as well as the RSR/ EVO uprights etc... It should be "GOOD"

Kit installed really pretty easy and Im not a body guy. Just learning all this as a hobby. Im getting MUCH better at painting. Learn from mistakes and keep going. Got good enough that a buddy let me paint his brand new Nissan GTRs flairs to match his red car.

This took me about 3 weeks in my spare time. 3/4th of time spent fitting and mounting everything then taking back apart. The paint is the easy part really...
Cool thing is, I figured out a way to mount the stock narrow body plastic rocker covers with this kit. Ill show a pic of those once I bolt them on later this week. I think it turned out great and much cheaper than buying new turbo ones at 300 bucks per side...

Ill post more pics as this project goes forward...

 

Great work!!

 

Thanks for posting... I have a much better idea of what goes into a mod like this in terms of body work. Car looks awesome! Wider track should improve the handling no?

 

who's front rotors?

 

i want this kit. car looks great

 

Jeff, I guess the cat's out of the bag now... rotor/hat deal isn't a secret any more

 

You should try your rear wheels on the front to check clearance etc.....

 

First I'll say stuff like this gets me interested again in doing what I have wanted to do with the yellow car since I bought it.

No doubt you'll have a higher grip level, all other things being equal. And the amount of rubber you can stick in the stock 993 fenderwells IS pretty substantial. But I can personally relate a couple of torsion bar track/race cars I've done from narrow-to-widebody. Both hit the track with the bodywork first before the bigger engine went in. Both were initially 225/245 tired cars; first went to 245/275, and the second to 275/315. Neither were faster purely on the tires/bodywork. The 275/315 car was a disaster, top speed wise until the 3.6L went in, from the previous 2.7RS spec. Same tires in both cases--BFG RA1s (mid-'90's version) for car #1, Kumho Victoracers (~'00-'03) for car #2.

 

Wow Jeff, nice job. Like most others here, I've contemplated doing this, just feel a little bit chicken with a saw .

 

Matt-

Doing this was on my long term list for smurf...go for it!

 

That looks great!!!!!! Nice work. You have some mad skills