how can you remove the rear quarter panle on an s13 and has any body ever install wide body rear quarter panles i believe they just go over the stock ones but i'm not sure. any info on this would help.

 

if your plan is to go wide body then yes they just go over the body. you will have to cut out the quater panels bigger so your wider tires dont hit them. you can either mold them on or get them rivited.

 

It's a unibody, they don't come off.

 

if you can afford to mold them, it's cleaner... but either way, once you put wide fenders on, don't expect to be able to go back to stock fenders because like said above the original fender (which would now be hidden behind the new wide fender) would have to be cut out somewhat, or you defeat the whole purpose of getting wide fenders in the first place.

 

does anyone have any pics of how the finished look is with the rivits?

 

www.chargespeed.com ther's pics there of the wide fenders... just imagine some rivet heads along the edge

 

- a question - when you mold them on - do you rivet - then mold over?
or are you supposed to use some kind of epoxy.

I guess you just rivet them on then slap some bondo on it?
- if anyone knows id appreciate it - thanks

 

i was planing on using rivets then mold it on with some bondo, then i'm trying to think of a way to paint the bondo but not most of the fender so you can still see the carbon fiber but i want it to look nice and clean. if any body knows a better way of doing this please tell me thanks.

 

I am an auto body tech so I think I might have some good info for ya. As for HyJynx's comment, I'd have to disagree with you. Being a Uni-body has absolutely nothing to do with removing the qt. panels as I've replaced about 5 or 6 at work. A friend of mine has a 91 hatch, he's in magazines and sponsored and one of his sponsors told him he had to use a wide body kit. If you drift the car you might wanna take this route. I took an air saw and cut the qt panel off but left about a 2 inch flap of it still connected to the car. Then the wide body kit I riveted to the the flap. Now if he hits a wall or something drifting I can just pop off the wide body and stick a new one on. It doesn't really jeopardize the strength of the car either because the inner qt. panel is still intact and gives it it's strength. Oh yea and make sure your saw blade is only about a half inch or so long. Need any more tips email me! Good luck.

 

What Hyjynx was referring to was that you can't remove then i.e front fenders, which come off with screws and bolts. Of course, if you get a saw you can remove anything - but I do disagee with your comment about how it won't affect the strength of the car if you remove most of the original rear quarter panel and replace it with FG panels - as he stated, it's unibody - even the rear fenders are subject to some stress handling.

If anything, I've seen rear wide fenders installed where they would rivet the wide panel on top of the original unibody panel, then trimmed the original panel (which is now hidden by the wide panel) just as much as needed to allow for wheel/tire clearance. This way you don't have to worry about cutting up tires, but you still maintain most of the original panel strength, as opposed to removing it altogether

 

when you riveted the panal on were there any ugly gaps or anything you had to deal with?