AA steel flares install question?, For those of you that have done this.... Options

[East coaster]

When installing the front flares, how did you determine the front to rear location? My AA front flares have a wheel well opening about 1" larger than stock (at the bottom of opening), did you just center it or do I need to bias to front or back??

Either way it seems the front belly pan, air dam, what ever will need to be shortened (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/sawzall-smiley.gif) to match up. Have you guys experienced this or are my flares just F'd up?

[Eric_Shea]

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Either way it seems the front belly pan, air dam, what ever will need to be shortened to match up. Have you guys experienced this or are my flares just F'd up?

Well...

Do you have a GT spoiler up front or will you be using a stock one that you'll need to make flared ends for anyway?

Here's what I would do after doing a couple of glass and steel installs:

1. Install the GT spoiler on the front (or similar spoiler made for the flares). Use that as a rough-in to position the front flare. Buy anywhere from 2-4 of the el Cheapo body clamp kits (8-16 clamps) from Harbor Freight ($9.00 each) to position the flares and the ends of the front spoiler.

2. Install the GT rockers. There is no such thing as a GT rear valance (on a factory GT) but I believe there have been some aftermarket ones made, so the rear position of the rear flare may not be that important. Use the rockers to position the front of your rear flares and to gauge the position of your front flares with the valance.

As Joe mentioned, you may have to work with them a bit. I found my rockers worked, unlike his... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/confused24.gif)

I had a "very" hard time with my front valance but I attribute that to Rennspeed.

Finally, Google "Armando and 914-6/GT". Look at all the John Lowe pictures of GT's and the various others out there. The front shoulder is in-line with the top of the fender on the factory cars. There's a ton of photos there for reference.

Also remember that the factory GT's were good 50 footers. None of their stuff lined up all that well, as appearant in the GT photo's on Armando's site