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DotTC AUG 21, 01:07 AM
wow So many pictuers, so many cool ideas..

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troyboy AUG 21, 02:10 AM
Thanks, Updates comming soon. We still have to mount the rear tire on the rim and work on the lights.
wicky AUG 21, 12:48 PM
I think it looks bad ass with the stock tail lights in that pic! Very cool. I am not digging the whale tail though, kind of makes it look funky. It's all good though. Very awesome project! It is inspiring me a lot!
madcurl AUG 21, 03:38 PM

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Originally posted by wicky:

I think it looks bad ass with the stock tail lights in that pic! Very cool. I am not digging the whale tail though, kind of makes it look funky. It's all good though. Very awesome project! It is inspiring me a lot!




Don't you worry, these are the very 1st stages. Troy and Archie going to "tweek" it.

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Archie AUG 21, 03:44 PM


Will AUG 21, 03:59 PM

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Originally posted by Archie:

How about a little update today........

I finally have PIP working on my shop PC.

There was a little change of plans when we went to opening up the wheel wells. Earlier I had said that we were going to do it just as Russ had done it in his thread. I still think that the method Russ described so well is a good way to do it, however, we decided to do it a bit differently after all.

The IMSA body (along with some other body kits like my Fino & Finale) have what I call a wheel well liner return on the insides of the wheel wells. Now on my Fino & Finale kits, we don't have to open up the wheel well to put on big wide tires, but on the IMSA you have to open them up.

On the picture below the red "X"'s indicate the area I call the wheel well liner returns. They allow you to uns a stock Fiero wheel well liner without modifying the liners. We wanted to open up the wheel wells but still retain the ability to use the stock wheel well liners.



So we marked off the area we wanted to remove on the lip while still retaining the returns. You can see where we drilled a couple of holes from the inside to mark the area where the returns were on the inside. that way we could cut the lips off & keep the return area where it belongs.



The lips we cut off looked like this.........



The cut Wheel wells look like this........







I'll show you what we did next in a few minutes........

Archie




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Originally posted by Archie:

Then we took a strip of sheet metal & with a few self tapping sheet metal screws installed it in the wheel well Archie (<~~~ I know I did that on purpose)





Then we laid up fiberglass on the inside.......





Then, the next day, we removed the sheet metal.......





Archie


Blast from the past: Have you talked to Doug/Sage/Whomever about modifying the molds so that the pieces are like this from the get-go and don't have to be modified?
Good idea. I like that the stock wheel house liners can still be used.
troyboy AUG 21, 05:19 PM

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Originally posted by Archie:






All I can say Archie is, WOW. I almost fell out of my chair.
jmbishop AUG 21, 05:31 PM
This thread keeps getting better and better, but like wicky said, not liking the wing.
Archie AUG 21, 07:53 PM

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Originally posted by troyboy:


All I can say Archie is, WOW. I almost fell out of my chair.



I know, I feel the same way.

They look unbelievable.

This pic shows kinda how the cutout is going to be in front of the light...



How about a profile shot.



Archie
Archie AUG 21, 08:01 PM

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Originally posted by Will:

Blast from the past: Have you talked to Doug/Sage/Whomever about modifying the molds so that the pieces are like this from the get-go and don't have to be modified?
Good idea. I like that the stock wheel house liners can still be used.



I'm sure Doug has been following this thread, or at least he was watching it when we were modifying the body.

You have to understand that making the modifications to the molds to do the wheel wells would be very expensive.

I'm sure he already has a pretty good investment in buying the molds & I'd expect that he's only selling about 5 bodies a year.

It would take several years to get a R.O.I. for the mold modifications that would be needed. So I wouldn't expect that it's a top priority at this time.

Archie