Anyone here ever installed the Korman Schnitzer flares?

[Guest Anonymous]

(I have done the search BTW)If you have how did you attach the front fenders? There seems to be a whole heck of a lot of glass missing to pin them down on the front & back. I have a feeling I have a ton of glasswork in my future.

[Guest Anonymous]

If so, I did an install on my 71.

If you are looking at their GT race flares, these were WIIIIIIDE, about 5-6", and real thin fiberglas. Got these by mistake and ended up trading for the narrow Z-products flares.

[Guest Anonymous]

How mind explaining how you put the front ones on?

[Guest Anonymous]

We cut the welds at the nose and smoothed them out. The fenders bolted right up and even had indentations for the bolt holes. You will loose the spring support for the hood. I used the end caps and bolted them to the space on either side of the heater box. These caps are perfect as they have mounting holes and a good slot for the prop rod. I then used one of the pieces of the spring to make a prop rod as it already fit in the slot of the capsand had an angled end. For storage I used 2 throttle linkage clips and attached them to the underside of the trunklid.

If the Korman flares are not bolt on, you will probably need to cut the existing fender and use 3M body panel adhesive to install. It will be aprocess of cut and test fit. We used a bunch of pop-rivets to do my test fit.

For the rears, we cut the outer panel around the wheel arch almost up to the upper trim peice. looked like a damn hot rod. On the inner fender, we cut slots and then bent the tabs up and welded them to the outer panel. Leave the extra metal on these and it will form an inner fender well for the new flares. I also used some spray foam to keep any rocks from coming up. The rears started at the door and went back to the taillight. The flares had cut outs for long point bumpers and a gas cap. I cut these, reversed the cutouts piece, and sealed everthing up flush. I used shortpoint bumpers and made an internal fuel filler.

I drove around with the cut fenders to check for rubbing, then we installed the rears with pop rivets and I drove some more. Once we were sure, we drilled out the rivets and used the body panel adhesive. This takes 3 people. If you get it on wrong, that's were it stays. We used the poprivet holes and some brazing rods to help line it up.

A S***load of work, but it sure was pretty!

[Guest Anonymous]

The way you installed the flares sounds exactly like my parts car. Your's doesn't have m-stripes on it does it?

The Korman flares have no holes what-so-ever.

[Guest Anonymous]

I was the second owner on the 71. Did all the work myself w/ help from my bodyshop friend. I went from side 45s to a smog legal 320i fuel injection/1.8 head on a 2 liter bottom end. I won a few awards with it and fun building and driving it. I sold it in 96 to someone from the Napa area. He bought it for his kid. They changed the seats, and were planning on adding a turbo. I heard it had gotten hit on one side, but was repaired. They sold it a year or two later, and then I saw it for sale at a parking lot near my home in the East Bay. Kind of funny, I could have bought it back then and turned a profit! I never saw it at any of the 02 fests or meets since I sold it. I haven't seen it in svereal years, wondered if anyone on the list may have it.

My wife and I bought a bone stock 72 tii in Verona red to replace our lost/gone 02s. She had a white 73 tii and my 71 02 was red, so it was a good compromise.

[Guest Anonymous]

last year. It was a real basketcase though. It at one point had been pretty damn sweet, but at this point it is a rustbucket. It had some sweet parts on it though. Fresh engine a schrick cam, mahle forged pistons (don't know the compression rate), aluminum flywheel, a custom headder, lots of suspension toys, tii struts, braided brake lines,tii brake booster, turbo radiator and alpina bolt on flares (in the front) . . . and I picked it up for $1500. Heh heh I just have to get rid of the friggin' shell now that I have gutted it. Anyhow . . . I digress. Where are you in the east bay?