Has anyone installed AA GT flares???, Have some fitment questions? Options

[East coaster]

I just received my Auto Atlanta (I know, I know, AA sucks) steel GT flares and I would love to see some pics of someone elses install procedure. I plan on butt welding the flares on. I investigated bonding them on, but even 3M states that they don't recommend using bonding where ghosting is of concern. They recommend welding for this type of application. Ghosting is described as a visable bond line through the final finish. This would piss me off, so butt welding it is!

I've held the flares up to my car and it's obvious that alot of trimming/fitting is required, just wondered if anyone took pics of this process when they did their's??? I promise to post pics of mine as I do them.

Here's what arrived.......

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Iused factory flares but they are probably close to the AA ones,use your rocker panels to center them over the wheel wells then take a black marker and trace around the flare, you could butt weld but I think it creates too much heat and distortes the panel,its also more difficult. After tracing your lines cut 1 inch below the line that you traced,this it what you weld to. Then take a 1/4 drill and put a hole about every inch around the outside edge of the flares about 3/4 inch inside from the edge,in essence you will buttonhole weld them on the fenders.As for the extra sheetmetal at the bottom of the flares,that is to make the channel that runs the length of the car for the rockers,but I just cut it of to sit flush with the exsisting channel,A fellow here in Kansas City has a factory M471 car that I eye fucked one day for about 6 hours and to my amazment they did the same thing at the bottom (instead of putting in the channel) From what I could tell the rest of the flare was butt welded AND metal finished!! Fuck that! I spent a long time researching so If you need more help let me know. I probably have more knowelge on instaling the things than Porsche themselves (not bragging or any thing) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif)