Yes I just wish I could find someone as good as Ted around here.

Yes, we are going to open up the wheel wells just as you have described on your thread. I've done it that years ago but I've never seen it explained as well as you did in your thread.

Thanks

quote Originally posted by Archie: Installing the hood scooper thingie......... ...... ...... Archie

Is that a Rockcrawl hood vent? If not where might I find one?

Thanks!

I am drooling just waiting to see this car anywhere even close to completion.

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

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

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