Front fender flares

[TitanFox]

I am in need of some help, I have to clearance my front fenders so my tires don't rub and I'm looking for a process to do so. Do I just go to max suspension compression and turn the wheel lock to lock and trim or flares what I need to? In my search I've seen alot of cars that run really tight clearance and I don't think it would work if they try to turn with the suspension compressed at all. Any help would be great.

[Motorcitydak]

Some cars are setup for looks knowing that the tires will rub under compression while turned to a certain extent. It’s likely to be a rare situation where you have the wheel turned all the way and the suspension is fully compressed. When I built my fenders however I didn’t want to have that be an issue so I put the suspension at full compression and then turned the tires each direction to ensure I had plenty on clearance. That meant for me that the front end got flared out farther than the back end of course. I think it’s an inch or so wider than the rear per side.

Also a common way to flare out a wheel opening is to just mark off and cut about an inch of metal all the way around the opening. Then leaving the bottoms barely attached, pull the top out to cover the wheel. Fill in the gap with steel and call it good. I’ve never liked that approach as it leaves lots of the tires front and rear sides uncovered. To me, that’ll just allow tons of dirt, rocks and mud to be thrown all over the sides of the car.

Here is some of the approach I used. Cut out the wheel well opening then the steel rods to build the new body lines. That’ll show the clearance available then you can work with that until you are happy. After then fill with sheet metal and spend endless hours in body work lol.











This was a very time consuming process and I was trying to cover quite a large amount of tire sticking out. Your car might not be quite as much needing to be covered. Depending on how much you need to flare out would dictate how much work it’ll take. Also depends on if the top of the tire is covered by the wheel opening at wide height.

[TitanFox]

Thank you for the advise and pictures. Those look pretty good.

[vcho455]

If you could post pictures of your current set and give us all the information on the front suspension and the wheel/tire combination it would help you get specific answers for your application. It's quite possible someone else has already gone down the road you're planning on traveling.