[Flyin_Freddie]

I just installed the foam fender liners from Top-of-the-Hill Performance yesterday on my #770 SPF Roadster. I jacked up the car and put it on jackstands...removed the wheels and had at it.

The foam is closed cell rubber stuff, about 5/16" thick and comes with a sticky back double sided adhesive already applied. The instructions have you wash the underside of the fenders with soap & water, then wipe them down with a wax and grease remover when they're dry. I used Ditz-O...from the local automotive paint store...good stuff. The foam pads are precut and fit pretty nicely. You still have to jocky them around a bit and work carefully and slowly on the compound curved (concaved) inner fenders. They're not hard to install, but tedious. I found just pulling a little of the paper backing off - about 4", or so - then locating the pad in the right place and sticking the exposed part down, then removing the rest of the backing paper worked well for me. I also used a small wooden wallpaper seam roller to insure the pads were stuck to the inner fender well. Dunno where I got it...but probably at Home Depot. Just roll it back and forth across the underside of the fender from side to side over the foam rubber...worked pertty well, stuck everything down nicely.

The kit also came with a tube of DuPont urethane adhesive to seal and stick the edges down with. The instructions say to wear gloves and form a seal along the edges of the rubber foam with it. I'm here to tell you, guys...this sh!t is some nasty stuff....! It gets everywhere fast - real fast! It was all over my nitrile gloves in a heartbeat...then all over the handle of the caulk gun, then all over anything it came near. I finally stopped and wet a blue paper shop towel with some lacquer thinner and wiped off my gloves and everything else that damned stuff came in contact with. Man...this stuff is nasty! But, it works well...even if the caulk gun is difficult to get into tight corners, etc. I wasn't able to get the urethane on all edges, so I concentrated on the areas and edges that would most probably get splashed with water. Since I don't drive my car in the rain, I'm not too worried about sealing all the edges...I guess time will tell.

All in all, the kit seemed to be worth the money, more or less. $220 for the four (4) pre-cut, fitted foam mats of 5/16" black foam rubber, plus $20 for the tube of urethane (which you may be able to get this cheaper locally, I dunno), and $20 for shipping, for a total of $260, delivered. They estimate 4 hours to install, and I'd pretty much second that...

Do they work? Hell...I guess I'll find out over the next few months. No stars, so far, and I've had #770 for over six years. So, I guess I've been lucky.

Hope this helps someone out...