Oh No!! Not another Camaro Wide Body Thread!
Thanks for all the compliments, I appreciate it, and not one "rice" comment yet, I am supprised-LOL.
I think its the same width as the Harrel cars, They are a lot more pronounced in person. Its kind of hard to get good pics of primer.
I am going to stick with arctic white, I just got done redoing my entire engine bay and I don't want to have to start that over again.
I thought of that, but when I started the projec I was a little skeptical of the whole thing and I didn't want to to put the extra work into what was possibly going to be a huge FAIL! I don't think I could have used the panels I got for a mold, the quarters werent even close to the shape I wanted, or ended up with. They took a LOT of work after they were on the car.
I think its the same width as the Harrel cars, They are a lot more pronounced in person. Its kind of hard to get good pics of primer.
I am going to stick with arctic white, I just got done redoing my entire engine bay and I don't want to have to start that over again.
I thought of that, but when I started the projec I was a little skeptical of the whole thing and I didn't want to to put the extra work into what was possibly going to be a huge FAIL! I don't think I could have used the panels I got for a mold, the quarters werent even close to the shape I wanted, or ended up with. They took a LOT of work after they were on the car.
so did the you leave the factor rear fenders and just bondo on those or what?
thanks
I kept the original quarters in place, then I used sheet metal screws to hold the new panel in place, fiberglassed the edges, then used body filler to finnish it off.
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Have you thought about either:
a) Removing side mouldings on door and front fender so as to just have a bead on rear quarter, door, and fender
b)Adding molding to the rear quarter
Seems like you should have one or the other, not both. Either way, car looks amazing.
a) Removing side mouldings on door and front fender so as to just have a bead on rear quarter, door, and fender
b)Adding molding to the rear quarter
Seems like you should have one or the other, not both. Either way, car looks amazing.
Yea, I just wanted to wait until after the car was painted before I put the molding back on the quarters. The molding on the front fender isn't a seperate peice, its fiberglass molded as part of the fender, thats why that one is on there, and the door molding, I just never took off.
I thought of that, but when I started the projec I was a little skeptical of the whole thing and I didn't want to to put the extra work into what was possibly going to be a huge FAIL! I don't think I could have used the panels I got for a mold, the quarters werent even close to the shape I wanted, or ended up with. They took a LOT of work after they were on the car.
I almost think that for $200 you could have fiberglassed your own. Those e-bay ones looked like crap, but after all of your work, they turned out awesome!
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Looks killer!!! Damn I watched those and almost bought them myself now i regret not trying to win them. Car looks great and I can't wait to see the finished product covered in arctic white.
Looks terrific with the wide body kit. Please post pics when resprayed.
How much weight do they add to the car, roughly?
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but it doesn't seem like anyone will ever end up making/selling a wide body kit for Camaros, right? That sucks... a lot of people would have been interested.
How much weight do they add to the car, roughly?
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but it doesn't seem like anyone will ever end up making/selling a wide body kit for Camaros, right? That sucks... a lot of people would have been interested.
Thanks guys, I was hoping people would like the way it came out.
You are probably right, The reason I bought them (knowing they werent exactly what I wanted) was that they were something to start with. I had been working on this project for about 6 months before I saw the ebay link. I had tried expanding foam=fail, block foam=fail, pvc sheets=fail, sheet metal=fail, I think any of those processes could have worked, but there was something stopping each one of them from working for me.
I didn't weigh them but I think my spare tire & jack weigh more!
I should hopefully be painting sometime at the end of the year.
Looks terrific with the wide body kit. Please post pics when resprayed.
How much weight do they add to the car, roughly?
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but it doesn't seem like anyone will ever end up making/selling a wide body kit for Camaros, right? That sucks... a lot of people would have been interested.
How much weight do they add to the car, roughly?
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but it doesn't seem like anyone will ever end up making/selling a wide body kit for Camaros, right? That sucks... a lot of people would have been interested.
I should hopefully be painting sometime at the end of the year.
??Elaborate??
i think you should cut out the extra fender lip inside the fenderwells so you can have some wide wheels in there or atleast ones with a smaller offset so they stick out flush. kind of like how you would roll the fenders except since its fiberglass you would need to cut them off
i think you should cut out the extra fender lip inside the fenderwells so you can have some wide wheels in there or atleast ones with a smaller offset so they stick out flush. kind of like how you would roll the fenders except since its fiberglass you would need to cut them off
here you can see a 240sx before they put the widebody fenders over it. cutting the original quarter panels allows you to fit wider wheels with a smaller offset back there so it can fill out the wheel well entirely. while my example is an EXTREME CASE AND NEVER TO BE DONE ON FBODIES im just trying to illustrate my point of cutting the original fender to the edge of the quarter to fit wider wheels
again you dont need to go extreme like this unless you plan on sitting on the gound with an airbag setup
sorry these pics make me lol
i would say me and chris but i was busy on the rear susp. setup, however chris got my rear fenders to the insane height i wanted them at and we figured we wanted to laugh and see how high the wheel had to go before it ever rubbed again. the results are hilarious haha
and just because
Last edited by chrysler kid; Sep 9, 2008 at 08:00 PM.