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Hey all,

Im looking at buying some front vented gaurds that are 30mm wider than the standered ones. So im guessing my wheels now wont fill out the gaurds...

So i may look at some new wheels. What offsets and width should i be looking for?

What sort should i be looking at to fill out the gaurds more now... Want some dish... and under or around $2000...

Any help would be great..

Also looking at some rear over fenders... but how are these held on?? am looking to try and do it myself... ideas?

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we usually grind the rear quarter back to metal, then use 3M Automix to adhere the fibreglass directly with the exposed metal... reinforce by drilling and resining through so that the overfender doesn't move around and cause hairline cracks in the paint a couple of years down the track. If the fender allows for it we may pop rivet as well for additional reinforcement, but not where the rivet has to be covered by filler to hide it, as a couple of years down the track the filler tends to shrink around the rivets and show dimples.

3M Website for Automix

we usually grind the rear quarter back to metal, then use 3M Automix to adhere the fibreglass directly with the exposed metal... reinforce by drilling and resining through so that the overfender doesn't move around and cause hairline cracks in the paint a couple of years down the track. If the fender allows for it we may pop rivet as well for additional reinforcement, but not where the rivet has to be covered by filler to hide it, as a couple of years down the track the filler tends to shrink around the rivets and show dimples.

3M Website for Automix

He's reffering to Front vented guards (replacement) not rear guards.

As for the front guards, it says 30mm wider, but they actually taper back into the door and the front bumper, so they are only 30mm wider at the middle of the guard then meet back to the factory bumper mounting points, its abit hard to explain, but when i had these guards on my r33, i could only space them out a extra 20mm or so, before rubbing. As for offset around +20 should do.. If using a bolt on spacer, go for the minimum size of 25mm, you should be fine, aslong as the car isn't overly low.

ahhhh pop riviting to the car.. hmmm no way you can do it without damaging panels??

Most people use this technique because it's cheap and it gives that 'tough' look to the car, but I don't think it's the look you're after.

He's reffering to Front vented guards (replacement) not rear guards.

As for the front guards, it says 30mm wider, but they actually taper back into the door and the front bumper, so they are only 30mm wider at the middle of the guard then meet back to the factory bumper mounting points, its abit hard to explain, but when i had these guards on my r33, i could only space them out a extra 20mm or so, before rubbing. As for offset around +20 should do.. If using a bolt on spacer, go for the minimum size of 25mm, you should be fine, aslong as the car isn't overly low.

+20? i reckon you could get away with lower than that

i had 17x8" +32 on the front of my r33, and it wasnt flush with the guards, so if you are putting on another 20-30 mm, you should be able to sneak in a gtr-ish offset rim, like +12, even if you have to add a degree of camber :)

that said, it depends on what widths you want as well..

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