Wheel flares
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Check out Stan (RoadRaceVette) 2nd Generation Automotive Restorations 1st. His have been reworked and are easier to fit. http://www.2ndgenrestorations.com/ro...redvettes.html
If not then try ACI http://www.acivette.com/aci0025m.htm or F Gregg Racing http://fgreggracing.com/products.html
If not then try ACI http://www.acivette.com/aci0025m.htm or F Gregg Racing http://fgreggracing.com/products.html
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What do you guys think would look the best, The style that molds more to the body at the rear (Im guessing thats the L88) or the one with the mud flap that is wider at the bottom rear?
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You will get opinions about both styles since there seems to be a love/hate opinion about both. The style with the mud flap is more functional, but in the end it is your car......
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That will be your choice. I have the original L-88 flares, but mine were purchased and installed way before there were any companies making them other than GM.
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He stopped making the ones he made up due to time and cost. Nobody wants to pay for the work involved in making a low production part.
This is my car at Lime Rock back in Sept.
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Brian is correct. Those flares were ACI. They required SOOOOO much work to make look good that I wanted to kill my self in the end.
That is why we designed our own flares. Much better starting point.
We will make those flares for cars we are restoring or on a special order basis, but they will be pricey, to be able to make it worth our while.
I guess you get what you paid for. They are far better than anything else out there, but a pain in the butt to make.
Hey Brian, did you get you cowl cover OK?
That is why we designed our own flares. Much better starting point.
We will make those flares for cars we are restoring or on a special order basis, but they will be pricey, to be able to make it worth our while.
I guess you get what you paid for. They are far better than anything else out there, but a pain in the butt to make.
Hey Brian, did you get you cowl cover OK?
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L-88 flares were designed only to cover the wide tires for racing regs, no one really cared if the looked cool or flowed, I never liked how they cut right in to the body at the bottoms,
I only like them on theme road race customs,
They don't keep any mud off a street car with wide tires,
Mud flap or as Ecklers called them ZL-1 flares are more designed to flow and blend with the cars lines,
But all mud flap flares are not the same some jut almost straight out from the body and look crappy, others the mud flap part is too big,
If the builds theme is road race run L-88 if the build idea is old school custom ( like mine ) go ZL-1 mud flap style.
With all that said Road race vette did make the L-88's look better and made a very sweet flare on that one customers car where the L-88 had a mud flap added, last I heard he sadly doesnt sell those.
I only like them on theme road race customs,
They don't keep any mud off a street car with wide tires,
Mud flap or as Ecklers called them ZL-1 flares are more designed to flow and blend with the cars lines,
But all mud flap flares are not the same some jut almost straight out from the body and look crappy, others the mud flap part is too big,
If the builds theme is road race run L-88 if the build idea is old school custom ( like mine ) go ZL-1 mud flap style.
With all that said Road race vette did make the L-88's look better and made a very sweet flare on that one customers car where the L-88 had a mud flap added, last I heard he sadly doesnt sell those.
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