Slightly flaired arches

[Rob77]

Hi all.

I am just wondering if anyone has had any experience in making slightly flaired arches for the Nova hatch (3dr).

I know Coxie is in the process of widening his arches to fit wide-ass wheels, but his are going to be round, where as I want to keep the standard square arch shape.

I don't want to opt for the BIG lairy wide arch kit, and I know I've seen some WIP pictures on here before of someones car that had slightly flaired arches. (Anyone know the ones I'm talking about, or who the car belonged to?)

I know Dan Paynes Nova (yellow beast on 19" RSGT's) had slightly flaired arches, and I want to do something like that.

Any ideas on thickness of metal, how to get the right shape, type of welder to use???

Any ideas / pictures welcome.

Many thanks,

Rob.

:+:

[Jack]

You could try chopping on some Frontera arches if you're a dab hand with the bodywork... they wouldn't look totally out of place

[Nick]

Your talking about Rick's WIP projects of his Red Turbo.

he has slightly flared front arches, but in the square form.

[Rob77]

Aha! - Thank you Nick!

Anyone got any pics of this Nova? (Or a link to the page with the pictures on?)

Thanks,

Rob.

[coxie]

WAhOO i got a mention .. come on lol

reet fella .. i pressume u mean somethin like these

http://www.novaload.net/images/car_images/2510big2.jpg
http://www.novaload.net/images/car_images/2510big3.jpg
http://www.novaload.net/images/car_images/2510big5.jpg

to me it looks like using a cruved piece of steel welded in place to flare them .. i could be wrong but dunno .. if anyone knows the guy who owns it u could ask him n find out ..

was gonna do this myself but me wheels mean i need wider lol ..

personally dont think itll be that hard jus ave to fabricate a lil lip cut the original back n weld new ens in place n smooth .. nothin he ses lol ..


gud luck with it fella .. really like the look of these kind of arches 8)

[SRimon]

Mine have been pulled out and flared...

http://img40.echo.cx/img40/6501/rolledflaredreararch6tq.th.jpg (http://img40.echo.cx/my.php?image=rolledflaredreararch6tq.jpg)

[Rob77]

Yeh; SRimon you have the arches I mean.

Any more WIP pictures of them?

Coxie; I don't really like the flicked out edge on those arches, but the whole euro style ain't my cuppa tea!

Thanks,

Rob.

[Nick]

rick's front arches were spot on, they were in there construction form, not even finished or sprayed i don't think

Try hunting around in the general section.

[Mike.]

WAhOO i got a mention .. come on lol

reet fella .. i pressume u mean somethin like these

http://www.novaload.net/images/car_images/2510big2.jpg
http://www.novaload.net/images/car_images/2510big3.jpg
http://www.novaload.net/images/car_images/2510big5.jpg

to me it looks like using a cruved piece of steel welded in place to flare them .. i could be wrong but dunno .. if anyone knows the guy who owns it u could ask him n find out ..

was gonna do this myself but me wheels mean i need wider lol ..

personally dont think itll be that hard jus ave to fabricate a lil lip cut the original back n weld new ens in place n smooth .. nothin he ses lol ..


gud luck with it fella .. really like the look of these kind of arches 8)

thats a real nice nova, like it alot euro stylee lol you ight not want to do this but have you asked a bodyshop, even iff its just for what thickness of metal to use and what welder?

[ANDYRACER]

The arches on that grey nova look weird it looks like someone has just bent them out a bit.

[Mike.]

they have :lol:

[ade]

yeah - basically theres a tool that rolls them out rather than up.

You may be able to stretch your existing arches - how big are you looking for (sorry - only skip read this post) - at what offset?

If youve not rolled the lip or ground it back then you could try fabricating an arch like here -

www.corsa.webb.se

Check the projekt corsa page - the gallery shows a nova arch where the guy built a new one. You could cut the existing arch up the middle, remove the flared section, then reweld a bigger flared section in and weld up a plate between the cut bit to widen the arch - then you'd need to remodel the inner arch (not a huge prob if you can manage all the 1st bit).

Ade

[Rick Draper]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v444/RickDraper/Novaturboprogress058.jpg

Here you go, i have some other construction pictures but i need to get them off my old pc first.

[Rob77]

Yeh Ade - those pictures of his arches are just what I needed to see! - I know what I'm doing now.

Cheers for your picture as well Rick. (Hope to see more soon!)

Many thanks for the help all!

Will start the arch work this weekend!

Rob.

[Rick Draper]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v444/RickDraper/c527cd24.jpg

There is a better pic to show how far i had pulled the arch out. The other pic did not show it properly.

[Nick]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm drooooooooooooooooooool

Looks good rick, i think you need a better engine in there tho ! :wink: :lol: lol