Fitting ZG Guards

[Bigfella]

I know that fitting of these Flairs has been covered before. I am hoping to fit my rear quarter in the next little while and I was wondering if I would be wasting my time welding them around the wheel arch as I would like to fit ZG guards. I am thinking that the arches are cut away when they are fitted.

 

Thanks

Matt

 

[benny]

hey mate,

 

Ill be doing this shortly also. Heres a writeup from hybridz-

 

http://forums.hybridz.org/index.php/topic/47525-how-to-mount-them-there-zg-flares/

 

 

[zzzzed]

I have done it. Make sure you cut the outside skin a little higher than the inside skin so you can fould the inside skin up to meat the outside skin and then weld them both togeather I hope that was not to confusing

 

 

[FLEXZED]

I have done it. Make sure you cut the outside skin a little higher than the inside skin so you can fould the inside skin up to meat the outside skin and then weld them both togeather I hope that was not to confusing

 

sorry to hijack the thread , Mick was wondering how much you have actually cut out of the arches ??

 

thanks

 

[Bigfella]

I have done it. Make sure you cut the outside skin a little higher than the inside skin so you can fould the inside skin up to meat the outside skin and then weld them both togeather I hope that was not to confusing

Yeah that's great Mick.

I guess I will need to get some guards so I can work out how much I need to cut..

But at least that answers my question. I won't bother welding the wheel arch together.

 

Thanks

Matt

[handsandwhich]

That link posted above shows how much needs to be cut out.

 

Anyways what you do (and what I did) was lay/tape the flares over the existing guards where you want them to sit and trace the outline of the flare with a texta and then make sure to cut below your marked line to leave some meat on the guard to hold the flare in place.

 

I think welding the guard back together is the best way to go to re-gain the structural integrity of the body. You could silicone or glue it back together to give some sort of support but welding is the way to go IMO

[zzzzed]

yeh.. what he said 

[FLEXZED]

That link posted above shows how much needs to be cut out.

 

 

the link says 6 inch/150 mm i find the very hard to beleive seems like alot to me

 

Loui

[Bigfella]

What I mean by saying I won't bother welding the wheel arch back together. Is going back to my question. When I install the guard back on the car I won't go to the trouble of welding the arch in the original position. Only then having to cut and reweld it once I get zg flares. I think you guy took it to say I was not going to weld the arches back together at all.

Cheers Matt.

[handsandwhich]

the link says 6 inch/150 mm i find the very hard to beleive seems like alot to me

 

Loui

 

Yes does sound like a lot. I ended up cutting around 90mm off the rears and about 75 off the fronts. But there are others that have cut way higher than this, like that guy on youtube that virtually cut out half the guard to mount huge wheels/tyres.

 

bigfella, now I understand what you were meaning re the welded guards.