Not looking for post whoring of typical sawzall fender mod stuff here.... 
I was curious to see examples of classic ways that hotrodders have modifed a stock fender to accomodate a larger tire when they are trying to preserve the "look" of the original vehicle.
Here are a few quick examples that I have photos for, though I don't know the correct industry term for each type.
Example 1: Fender lip cut, pushed out with extra section added to middle..
Example 2: What I call the "Pizza Slice" method:
Example 3: Not sure what you call this one....cut along style line of fender, pull down to increase amount of flare. Fill in gaps with strips of metal.
Obviously, Examples 1 & 2 are my own truck....just stuff I tried many years ago as experiments. The first one never had the right look, and I think it was just because I was making such a dramatic change in width over stock. The "Pizza slice" one ended up preserving the original shape perfectly, but it still needed some tweaking (actually to make it look a little less original) so that the aesthetics would be better.
Example 3 was just something I found from some Subaru WRX site. Mostly that technique is for fitting a WIDER tire under the fender, not necessarily fitting a larger diameter tire.
Anyway....we've got some "old school" hotrodders on these forums (Ryoken and Zim come immediately to mind!) so I have a feeling that in someone's personal photo archives there are examples of stuff that would let me do some good learnin'
Post 'em up if you've got them. And help me out with the correct "terminology" if you know what these different methods are actually called.
-G
I was curious to see examples of classic ways that hotrodders have modifed a stock fender to accomodate a larger tire when they are trying to preserve the "look" of the original vehicle.
Here are a few quick examples that I have photos for, though I don't know the correct industry term for each type.
Example 1: Fender lip cut, pushed out with extra section added to middle..
Example 2: What I call the "Pizza Slice" method:
Example 3: Not sure what you call this one....cut along style line of fender, pull down to increase amount of flare. Fill in gaps with strips of metal.
Obviously, Examples 1 & 2 are my own truck....just stuff I tried many years ago as experiments. The first one never had the right look, and I think it was just because I was making such a dramatic change in width over stock. The "Pizza slice" one ended up preserving the original shape perfectly, but it still needed some tweaking (actually to make it look a little less original) so that the aesthetics would be better.
Example 3 was just something I found from some Subaru WRX site. Mostly that technique is for fitting a WIDER tire under the fender, not necessarily fitting a larger diameter tire.
Anyway....we've got some "old school" hotrodders on these forums (Ryoken and Zim come immediately to mind!) so I have a feeling that in someone's personal photo archives there are examples of stuff that would let me do some good learnin'
Post 'em up if you've got them. And help me out with the correct "terminology" if you know what these different methods are actually called.
-G
) on a squared fender, the sectioning can be pretty srtaightforward, because the cuts get made areas where the fender lip is nice and linear.
