Flaired fender picture request

[dumpedDAILY]

Yo tepe. I have some questions about where you cut and what the final product looks like. I have some mk1 wheel arches and am dying to put them on. I really hope you look at this post.

- Bern.

[nbcbird]

A little off topic--did any of you guys notice Harv's garden hose storage reel? Well done John.

[dumpedDAILY]

lol. I didn't even notice that. Good eye.

[Harv]

Ha! Porsche 944 Fukes alloy.

John

[Lorin]

Flares.

It's for sale, too.

[gwb72tii]

ie flares

[1968_1600]

Just curious Lorin how much were the flares, and how hard were they to fit right?

[LarsAlpina]

Matt, I agree!! I think the Grey Alpina flares are the nicest looking!! Let me ask you guys out there would you do that to a rare 2002 Convertible? (I'm asking cuz I have one and I want to get peoples opinion)

Other than that, I'm considering buying another '02 and leaving the 'vert body stock...

Well there are (or at least have been) flared convertibles. Take a look for yourself and carefully consider if you may wanna do this to your car. Sorry for the sometimes poor picture quality, some are scans from really old photos).

This one I´ve only seen once - backlights from E30:

One of the "blue twins", should have M20 if I remember right:

This is Roland´s car (second of the "blue twins"), should be still existing, have seen it last time about 4 years ago when I paid him a visit.

This is Edgar´s targa, still existing, S14 engined.

Regards, Lars

[LarsAlpina]

IMHO, these are the 2 nicest examples of subtle flarework. The blue car utilizes VW Rabbit rust repair arches (which I cannot seem to find), and the grey car, from what I gather, is utilizing original steel Alpina lip flares, which are impossible to find. Note that DAPBMW sells fiberglass replicas of the lip flares, but they are slightly different than the grey car shown in the picture.

Matt

Hi Matt,

on the blue car at least the front fenders do not have Golf (or rabbit) arches imho. If you buy complete aftermarket Golf front fenders, cut out the wheel arches and weld them in 02 it looks like this (Franz´s S14):

If you take the repair metal sheets for 2-door Golf rear wheel arches it looks somehow like on this car in the rear (those are slightly wider):

Small Alpinas (if there are some on the grey car they are not mounted in the right height) do look like this:

Scan from catalogue from Frankfurt´s former Alpina parts dealer Grommisch from the early 80´s.

US car - should be known on your side of the pond.

Juergen´s car.

In the 70´s the first small Alpinas were made from metal. In the 80´s they switched to producing them from fiberglass. And it is really not a problem to get those flares - you can still buy them new at Alpina. They´re a bit pricey though.

Regards, Lars.

[MarkDavis]

Here is another set of turbo flares.

Mark

[AceAndrew]

I'll throw some in here.

Draco02's flared Tii. Can't remember if the flares were OEM or IE, but the front obviously is OEM.

Believe this gentleman is on here. (For the life of me I can't remember his name).

Matt Rose's Gulf VARA racer (Ronin Autowerks) with IE box flares

IE turbo flares on a GROMA car prior to paint.

Another GROMA car with IE turbo flares

IE Alpina flares, on a car some of you in northern California and the northwest will recognize.

[flybmw02]

Hear's mine. I would still like to bubble the center of the flair up 2" the car could run lower but the rules say I can't flair into the hood.

John

[LarsAlpina]

Hear's mine. I would still like to bubble the center of the flair up 2" the car could run lower but the rules say I can't flair into the hood.

John

John,

Schnitzer did that with some of their smaller Gruppe 5 type kits. Not into the hood though.

Regards, Lars.

[flybmw02]

Wow those flairs are wide. The bubble on the top is what I want but again 2" higher I also wish I had a turbo like the group 5 cars. Maybe I will get ambitious and start working on my molds.Thanks for posting that pic Lars.

John

[steve k.]

sorry, these were not "professionally" done

DSC_0075 by misfit76, on Flickr

But here is the link to the upgrade process.

IMG_1296.JPG by misfit76, on Flickr

steve k.