Cars to low, rasie or bend??

[mitsuclipsegsx]

I think I am going to have to raise my car, when I drive its hits the inside of the rear fender. Can I bent the fender flares(is thats whats its called??) or should I just raise it back up?

thanks

 

[TrboANTsi]

I slightly bent them in. You wont be able to get it flat like on hondas, but you can do it. Get a metal pipe or something and try it out just be careful for paint chipping.

 

[93_tsi_fwd]

yeah, just roll your fenders out a bit. what springs/suspension are you using?

 

[mitsuawd]

Baseball bat and heat or Eastwood sells a nice fender rolling kit pretty pricey though or find a shop that can do it for you. I would personally raise that's to low though. Suspension geometry probably out of wack.

 

[ali]

do you have a better picture like a side shot of your car

 

[mitsuclipsegsx]

yeah, just roll your fenders out a bit. what springs/suspension are you using?

Megan racing coilovers. With 18s it leaves such a big gap and takes alot to make it look good

 

[TrboANTsi]

heres what mines looks like and yes I did notice the pretty nail in my tire .

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[tsidrift1]

Im running into the same problem on my 1g. Im on megan coilovers now. Whenever I get the car to the height I want it, I shred little shavings off of my front wheels! I have raised a bit and I still get the little shavings. Some of it might have to do with the 18x8" wheels with a 10mm spacer to clear my brakes! I might try to roll the fronts this weekend.

Anthony

 

[crimsondragon]

It looks like it clears it fine. I don't see why it would rub when you drive unless you hit a pothole and cause it to bounce. Did you check to see if you're rubbing anything else?

 

[tsidrift1]

It looks like it clears it fine. I don't see why it would rub when you drive unless you hit a pothole and cause it to bounce. Did you check to see if you're rubbing anything else?

If this is aimed at me, I dont have any pics of the car with the megans on it. Ill maybe snap one tomorrow. I know it is just barely skimming on the fender. I think on the drivers side its actually just barely rubbing on the splash shield that I can never get tucked up into the fenders.

Anthony

 

[Hideki]

Just roll your rear fenders and make sure your megans are set real stiff

 

[cano86]

I'm lucky I didn't ran into that problem with mine I would post pick but is dark out but I'll try to put some up tomorrow mine is so dropped that the tires are actually inside the fender and inside the rear panel

 

[->PrOjEcTGS<-]

DAMN that's a sexy car!!

 

[Cs4g63]

Ive always just ground that lip down a little until it clears. You can either grind it a little or use a body saw on the lip but just make sure you dont go to far.

 

[TSiAWD666]

Where are you hitting? If you're hitting the inner lip of the rear then you can, like others suggested, bend the lip upwards and out of the way. You can try the baseball bat/towel solution as I've heard others have been able to do it that way. I personally didn't have luck with that. On one car of mine I had a body shop do it fairly cheap and they used one of the rolling tools used for this. On my second car I was ghetto and used a dremel to slot the metal lip in various places, then hammered it vertically. Without the slots I just couldn't get it to bend.

Even with the bent lips, with my +35 offset 18x8.5" rims and various tire sizes (245/35/18, 255/35/18, 245/40/18), I had to run stupid rear camber (like -1.5) to get the wheels to clear the fenders. This sucked, so I pursued some sort of enlarged fender solution.

You won't be able to flare the fenders out easily or with little cost which is why I asked where specifically you were rubbing. The reason is that right behind the quarter panel metal is the unibody. You just can't flare that out with a bat or a fender rolling tool as it's a complex task. I know as like a handful of DSM owners I've had it done to accomodate large tires. My current car has the fenders "flared".

If you are in fact rubbing the fender and not just the inner lip, your only choices are:

1) get thinner tires
2) run more negative camber
3) get wider fenders

 

[mitsuclipsegsx]

The tires in the rear are deff hitting the inner fender cause i see the rubber inside the fender.