How are FG fenders mounted? Options

[Air_Cooled_Nut]

How do you attach a fiberglass fender to a car? Is the fender a full fender or is it mostly a partial so you have to cut away the metal fender and graft in the FB in the resultant hole? Pictures?

[Lotus914]

Clipped from the following thread:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread....highlight=epoxy

I used marine type epoxy and it bonds fine to fiberglass. The reverse is not necessarily true. I know nothing about corvettes, but the chopper gunned flares that are for sale are no different that the cheap boats or truck caps that I've seen. I've sued lots of both, and find it very hard to believe that any polyester-based product can adhere as well as properly used epoxy.

I installed my fiberglass flares with the help of the gentleman restoring my car. He has used 'kitty hair', bondo, and other polyester-based products before and was very impressed with the epoxy, stating that the results were the best he's seen. (try removing steel fasteners from epoxy vs polyester resin and you'll see why. You need to heat them with a soldering gun.)

Epoxy is amazing stuff and if you want to play with some, its cheap to start. These guys have a $10.00 trial kit including a book which is worth twice the price.

http://systemthree.com

Having done it once, I'd do one thing differently. I used a long-strand glass and silica-filled mix of epoxy to bond the trial-fitted flares to the clean steel. Screws held it in place and while the resin cured I sculpted the squeeze-out inside the fenders to ensure a smooth transition from glass to steel. I then overlaid the joint with woven 'glass tape inside the fender, and fille the weave. Smooooooth.
What I should have done prior to that last step is peppered the steel adjacent to the glass flare with holes along the length of the joint, then ground the glass flare to be nearly flush, and epoxied glass tape to the inside AND outside. The resin would meet through the holes and make a very strong epoxy/glass/steel/epoxy/glass sandwich.
Next time.....

Yes, some of the 'glass parts are crap and will require some skilled (easily learned) work to get them to fit right.

You tell me if they look different or bad.