S14 wide body without rivets and flush?

[Xektrix]

Originally Posted by KAT-PWR

Yeah it's called $1,000's in paint and body work. What you are wanting to do is a molded body kit. This takes skill and proper materials. No, bondo will not do.

You will have to cut and re-weld the arches. Properly seal them from moisture. Prep the body surface where you will bond the FRP panel to the OEM metal. You will need panel bond, short strand fiberglass fillers, a good quality light weight filler, full set of sanding blocks, various grit sand papers, and a good amount of experience.
Then add your primers and paint.

Also you will want to start with a good quality over fender like charge speed which run $650 or so.

Hey thanks for the response, that's interesting. And kinda sucks. I'd probably just stick with the oem look if it's that labor intensive. Because I would like to do the work on it myself, but I am not anywhere close to being able to do that. I honestly know nothing about body work, so I was hoping it was going to be simpler. Because I don't want to try it and end up ruining a perfectly good chassis.

If I ever do plan on trying anything like that, I'd probably try it on a junk chassis or work in a body shop. Thanks for the reply tho, are you experienced with that kinda thing? Because I can't really find much information online about this topic. Maybe I'm not searching the right thing, or not hard enough.

[silviamang]

Originally Posted by Xektrix

Hey thanks for the response, that's interesting. And kinda sucks. I'd probably just stick with the oem look if it's that labor intensive. Because I would like to do the work on it myself, but I am not anywhere close to being able to do that. I honestly know nothing about body work, so I was hoping it was going to be simpler. Because I don't want to try it and end up ruining a perfectly good chassis.

If I ever do plan on trying anything like that, I'd probably try it on a junk chassis or work in a body shop. Thanks for the reply tho, are you experienced with that kinda thing? Because I can't really find much information online about this topic. Maybe I'm not searching the right thing, or not hard enough.

Like KAT-PWR said, molding a body kit properly to car will take a lot of time, money, and skill. I would not recomend someone to do it that has zero experience with body work, or even some experience with body work.


Bottom line is, you are not going to be able to do the work yourself and have it not come out like crap. Most (if not all) kits need to be fitted properly out of the box.


I know starting out you want to do most of the work on your own car. I know the feels, but somethings (like body work) I would just let someone that has the experience do it. Good luck on the S14!