Flares... now the rear!

The fronts guards turned out so well I decided to give the rears a go. The rears require a little more effort, the inner guard has to be first seperated from the outer guard and cut away a little to provide some room. Then after the flaring is done you need to re-attach(weld) the inner to the outer to provide adequate strength to the guard and stop crap being flicked up into the rear quarter cavity. I drilled the spot welds out, in hindsight I probably should have ground them through to prevent the holes in the lip you see in the pics. It wasnt a big deal in the end because I folded the lip back over to pretty much cover the holes. I also ran a bead of sikaflex along the join where I welded the inner guard to the outer to make sure it was a water tight seal. Once again I was pretty happy with the result!

Some of those those round things!

Of course a car needs wheels! The old 13" stockers are an embarassment. My ideal wheels for this car are Watanabe RS, in 15", very wide and very low negative offset. But alas I cant afford at this stage to build my ideal dream race car - so I settled for locally manufactured Superlights in 15x8 with -4 offset. I like to call them "the poor mans Watanabe's". They are very similar style.

Whilst deciding on the wheels I looked around for an existing local race series that used the same size wheels, my thinking was that I may be able to source a good supply of 2nd hand race rubber from the racers and keep tyre costs low. The local Porsche 944 Challenge series just so happens to use 15x8 rims with 225/50 Advans. I contacted some of the racers and before too long had guys offering me sets of slightly used tyres for a fraction of new cost!

As you can see from the last pic - this size wheel and tyre do not fit without modification to the stock guards!