914 WRX Build Options

[waltonsm]

After seeing some recent posts, I decided it was finally time to thank everybody on this forum for years of encouragement and scope creep on my long term project. As with every real project, this will never be done, and there are certainly many things I would do differently a second time around. But I am 80% of the way there, and I am enjoying driving it as much as I am working on it for the last year or so.

I plan to add more photos of my build process over the next few weeks. You may see some of the advice you gave me realized, and probably some bad or good ideas in metal, fiberglass, and wood.

Hopefully I can help someone else out too.

-Steve


Here are some recent photos:





And a few from about 4 years ago:

[waltonsm]

I got a few questions on fender install recently, so I figured I’d add a few photos of my process. I knew the look I wanted, but it took lots of iteration.

I spent a lot of time fairing the fiberglass to uniform thickness, and rebuilt some of the edges of the flares to ensure they would lay flush on the fenders. After fairing for fit, and for the seam line I wanted I painted and prepped for mounting tape. I used permanent mounting tape, 3/4” wide I think, cleaned, etched, then the tape, then install.

There were a few areas that needed some additional pull force/point load though. I knew the fenders would move some after cutting, but they moved again some in my final trim of another inch or so after all the fairing and fitting work.

For the areas I needed to help, I used click bond studs and fender washers.