Making clearance in the inner fenders for lowered cars

[mulisha00]

I've got a 66 galaxie that I'm still in the mock up phase and was wondering what some of you do for the inner fenders on air ride or lowered cars? The rear on mine is fine but the front is hitting the inner fenders on the outside edge of the tire when fully aired out right in the guts of the curve for the inner fender.

I don't want to remove them completely but I have to make some room somehow and before I start cutting I'd like to see what others have done. My hood hinge brackets attach to my inner fenders and I think I can raise that a little via cutting and rewelding the bracket where it attaches but I need about 2" on this massively curved inner fender.

So any pictures of this being done or adding metal into a curved surface would help.

[MrQuick]

best thing to do is get the car mocked up, check the tire at ride height and start cutting.

just something we like to do when quarters come off.

https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=42864&d=1291848592

[HotRod68Camaro]

How difficult is it with the quarters on?

[Motorcitydak]

The job is more difficult on the rear if you have the quarter panels on still. The front is not too bad especially when you take the fenders off. What you have to do it cut out what ever areas the tire is touching where ever it may be. Add another inch or so to that to give room for error and deflection of the tire, suspension pieces and incase you need to change the alignment. This is not something you will enjoy doing more than once so make sure that you leave more than enough room for the tire. Once you have the hole cut and the tire is happy just cover up the hole. You can do the technique show above using paper for mock up then transferred to flat pieces of sheet metal or you can get fenders for a trailer or custom motorcycle and chop those up and put em in place. They will give you a nicer rounded edge vs the sheet metal one shown above, just make sure you get the rite fender with a proper radius. The sheet metal way usually works better when you will not see the work unless you want that line to be shown or feel like rounding the edges to make it look nicer. Something like these work out really nice
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/TRAILER-FENDERS-7-75x28-BOAT-HORSE-TRAILER-PART-PAIR-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem2eabbe76d3QQitemZ20044 9881811QQptZMotorsQ5fRVQ5fTrailerQ5fCamperQ5fParts Q5fAccessories

Or these

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NEW-CUSTOM-WIDE-TIRE-11-REAR-FENDER-RIGID-CHOPPER-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem3cb1bc92f8QQitemZ26067 9963384QQptZMotorcyclesQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

[MoparCar]

On the rears on my Challenger I took a new AMD inner tub and used part of it to weld into the outer. On my Mopar the outer 1/2 of the tub sloped towards the quarter limiting the tire clearance. I found the inner is nearly straight down with a nice tight radius so I cut what I needed and sectioned it into the outer. I hope that makes sense.

Edit***I see you said front inners. Search out Bad Penny's rebuild last year on this board. Steve had the inners fronts stretched for more room. Very nice job. I believe a lot of the pro builds do this on GM cars. Take a look at Detroit Speeds site under their builds. They have a few in the pictures.

Wes