03-09-2010, 05:04 PM
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Location: Little Rock area,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA Street Roadster #782 with 459 cu in FE KC engine, toploader, 3.31
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Fiberglass body wheel lip body prep
I'm doing body work on my ERA and started trying to prepare one of the front wheel lips. They left it full when they trimmed the body out of the molds so I ground the return edge back to a uniform 5/32 inch thickness. This is the thickness of the exposed edge looking at the wheel well. I will then round that off to simulate the original rolled edge.
Question is - the fiberglass is pretty thick in this area and the thickness of the lip's return to the inside of the wheel well is from 3/8 to nearly 1/2 inch thick. I had planned to lay that back along the inside of the fender to again somewhat simulate the original's rolled edge. But, that is going to be a lot of fiberglass to grind out and I don't want to get it too thin and brittle. I'm looking for examples of how others have finished the fiberglass wheel lip, or how some of the better body and paint shops are finishing them.
Thanks
Dan
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