I am looking for pics of flush mount bolt on RSR flares

gsmith660 · 01-06-2011, 05:45 AM

I saw a thread recently that had RSR rear quarters that were flanged and bolted on rather than bonded can anyone help me with finding the details on this I have been looking for a couple hours and cant find it in any of the searches I am doing, Thanks.

ghost1001 · 01-06-2011, 08:12 AM

I am also very interested in this....please post pics if you have them or if you find the thread you are looking for.

The shop that is building my car has many cars set up like this, Peter builds race cars mostly. I will get some good pictures the next time I am up there.

Looks like I will be going RSR fenders with either 11" 930 quarters or 13" RSR quarters, bolted or cam-locked on. Peter uses the cam-locks as you can remove/replace quickly at the track.

This guy has RSR flares bolted:

Bolt-on RSR Flares, Rauh Welt Style (Pics)

Kevin

gsmith660 · 01-06-2011, 09:07 AM

That is not quite what I was thinking of but I do like the looks of that car. I was thinking of the fasteners that were used by the 935's to attach the quarters so they could be removed for work and I the pic I saw was a complete RSR quarter that had the vents front and rear for future projects. I wish I could find that thread

Flieger · Flieger's Garage

What, do you mean Dzus fasteners?

gsmith660 · 01-06-2011, 09:57 AM

That sounds about right

gsmith660 · 01-06-2011, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Flieger

What, do you mean Dzus fasteners?

That pic you posted on the fiberglass quarter install is what I am looking for but I thought I saw one that had RSR flares and had closeups. Are those quarter panel flanged so they mount flush?

Schwarzeritter · 01-06-2011, 11:26 AM

Rauh-Welt Begriff is very close to my home here in Japan, it's maybe about 30min away.

He's fabricates aeros and custom paints, and some limited exhaust items. Not tuning, Furthermore the pictures displayed in the link are not ( true Rauh-Welt ) parts. Our firms are maybe 45min apart.

Anyways, I have seen Rauh-Welt's work is good, I won't knock the man. Also for what it's worth his cars tend to be very low slung and the width is much wider then the car displayed.
His wheels are custom specific offsets for his aero work.

Also the clearences and flushness and gapping is imaculate. A friend of mine infact has a Rauh-Welt bodied car, it drawfs a regular 930 and makes the RSR look odd and miss-shappend.

I tend to throw caution to guys who say something is " X-Y-Z-tuning-like " it's sort of copy-esq. That and if you are going to copy someones style you better do it way better and bring something to the table.

I don't want to sound ultra mean, rather firm and just mono-tone. I don't know how many folks here own a company that produces products, but I will say it's a ultra crummy feeling when one feels as if he can't show his work off for fear be being copied continuiously. That's sort of why I lost interest in Pelican.

My suggestion is that if you want something that is made of a good quality, to contact Hank at GT racing. I think his son or something might of taken over but GT racing are polite folk.

Sometime ago I had even considerd a re-production of a 935 K3, Kremer Racing recommended them, stating that the cost of real authentic K3 parts were painfully expensive with the rate of exchange, and they felt the quality was good via GT racing.

There are some other firms out there that do good work as well as far as aero-parts are concerned. Good look -

Flieger · Flieger's Garage

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Originally Posted by gsmith660

That pic you posted on the fiberglass quarter install is what I am looking for but I thought I saw one that had RSR flares and had closeups. Are those quarter panel flanged so they mount flush?

They mount flush but there is a panel gap, of course. The C pillar would normally flow down into the steel quarter panel, the two being welded together. On my car, the quarter is cut off (I think) where the weld was and the C-pillar stays at the same height, so there is a lap, where the Dzus fasteners are mounted.

Kevin at Automotive Innovations and Restorations did the work. He is the moderator for the paint and bodywork forum here on Pelican. Automotive Innovations and Restoration | autoinno | Los Angeles Porsche Body and Paint

I was not concerned with the fit that much but if you want it to look more like steel, Kevin can do that.

gsmith660 · 01-06-2011, 01:11 PM

Thanks I will look into it I dont have to have the flush mount but it gives it a more finished look. Yours were steel quarters weren't they?

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Originally Posted by Flieger

They mount flush but there is a panel gap, of course. The C pillar would normally flow down into the steel quarter panel, the two being welded together. On my car, the quarter is cut off (I think) where the weld was and the C-pillar stays at the same height, so there is a lap, where the Dzus fasteners are mounted.

Kevin at Automotive Innovations and Restorations did the work. He is the moderator for the paint and bodywork forum here on Pelican. Automotive Innovations and Restoration | autoinno | Los Angeles Porsche Body and Paint

I was not concerned with the fit that much but if you want it to look more like steel, Kevin can do that.

Flieger · Flieger's Garage

I used to have steel quarters, but now they are Dzus'ed fiberglass. The cut is made at the bottom end of the drip rail. Post #103 in the New Years Day SoCal thread.

They are what I would call "flush" because the body panel surfaces are all at the same level. The gap is between panels. It is not like they were bolted on on top of the old panels, like bolt-on flares.

Kevin would have more info.

Best Regards.

Flieger · Flieger's Garage

Oh, by the way, all my car is fiberglass- GT Racing.

gsmith660 · 01-06-2011, 01:30 PM

I am looking at Wax105's RSR I think he is going to do something like that. So what do you think my cab. will look like with the 13 inch RSR flares on the back with 335 meat and the 11 inch RSR on the front with 275 tires? I do this and I can move my oil cooler to the rear quarter.

cole930 · 01-06-2011, 01:46 PM

G Man:

Sounds like a cool project. From my personal perspective most widebodied Cab's don't look right, something about the windshield and open back. I would encourage you to search some of the Speedster hot rod look Cab's that have been done. They get rid of the high windshield and cover the back seats. That would really look good with wider body glass panels because it lowers the look and enhances the wider fenders. If anybody can pull off the right look you can.
Has the makings of a good project thread.

Cole

cole930 · 01-06-2011, 02:19 PM

G Man:

Here are a couple pics.

Cole

gsmith660 · 01-06-2011, 02:25 PM

Thanks Cole for the vote of confidence the flares are only 2 inches wider than I have now can you say door dings! I have to do something with my rear quarters as they have issues on the right side and no matter what I have done the problem keeps coming back so I was thinking of the RSR look that I always wanted to do but I don't like the idea of bonding the quarters to the body as they seem to evenually crack so when I saw that pic of the quarters with Duzs fasteners it dawned on me that this could be a neat look and leave the quarters so I could remove to protect the paint when I am doing projects. So you don't think the look would be right huh? I would love to do a speedster but the stuff is like unobtainium and my daughter won't admit it but she loves to cruise in the back seat. So here are a couple pics guys please try to visulize the car with the wider flares and tires I thought about actually trying to make the slats work too but I think the angles are all wrong.

gsmith660 · 01-06-2011, 02:27 PM

I like that car too looks like standard turbo 9 inch on front and 13 or 14 inch on back.

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G Man:

Here are a couple pics.

Cole

cole930 · 06:14 PM

G Man:

On the speedsters the clamshell on the back seat just lifts off you don't loose the back seat use.

Here are a couple of pics that might help with deciding where to position the overlay panels.

Cole

gsmith660 · 04:26 PM

I might do something like that with the front fenders because I don't want to give up my gas filler bucket but the rest isn't me.

Reaper930 · 01-06-2011, 04:56 PM

Dude, you already have a turbo style quarter, just rivet on some 934 flares!!!!

gsmith660 · 01-06-2011, 06:05 PM

I may but I got to deal with this recurring bubbling that keeps popping up on one quarter I am thinking I will give it one more shot and airbrush the repair to give it a chance to come back or go away the only problems is I like the rear brake vents and they help cool the brakes and the motor.