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Old 02-19-2002, 09:47 PM
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Behind rear wheels

I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem. Since the rear wheels stick out to the side of the rear rocks and suck get caught into the wheels and then chip and scratch the fender there. A friends of mine said there are clear vinyl pieces to protect it. Anyone know of these, where you can get them or something else I could use?
Especially since my car just got painted
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Aw man, just get proper backspaced wheels. Anything you stick on the body will look bad imho. Never heard of clear, but there are those chrome fender flare accents available : puke :
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proper backspaced wheels??

The car is near stock, only exhaust and couple other minor things have been done. The wheels are in their stock position. Every 91-92 camaro has their wheels out like this. Just they way they are made
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Yea, he's right. I took pictures of mine before and after, I can't tell a difference, but as it stands, they do stick out slightly. Maybe around an inch are less. Not sure if it's a 91-92 only thing of if it's all camaros.
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Mud Flap:sillylol:

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Old 02-19-2002, 11:18 PM
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Take a look, you can see them sticking out on left especially, this is the STOCK placement with STOCK style wheels.

I wasn't talking about the actual fender, its the part behind the wheels.

Concider you are looking at the drivers side, your eyesight perpendicular to the length of the car, the lug covers as your origin and a level ground 14" below your X axis (assuming stock 28" tire height) Now, I am talking coordinates of (24",0"), so no increase in altitude only side movement.

Hopefully I have made myself clear

Well, its good to see 4 years of Mechanical Engineering is good for something.
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Take a look, you can see them sticking out on left especially, this is the STOCK placement with STOCK style wheels.

I wasn't talking about the actual fender, its the part behind the wheels.

Concider you are looking at the drivers side, your eyesight perpendicular to the length of the car, the lug covers as your origin and a level ground 14" below your X axis (assuming stock 28" tire height) Now, I am talking coordinates of (24",0"), so no increase in altitude only side movement.

Hopefully I have made myself clear

Well, its good to see 4 years of Mechanical Engineering is good for something.

Shoot, my picture is too big, hopefully my explaination is clear enough though
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Oh sorry, I though you meant they stuck out beyond the upper lip of the wheel well. I use a set of mud flaps on my car. I attach them with those large jaw type paper clips so I can take them off once I get to a show. Not a whole lot else you can do. Avoiding burnouts in gravel will definately help.

Hehe, aerospace engineering degree here.

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Guys, call them "stoneguards" when they're on cars to avoid some of the less mature comments about "them thar mudflapper thangies".

The very first thing I noticed after I got 275s was that peculiar sound of tiny bits of gravel bring picked up and bounced off the body of the car. I just can't get myself to do anything about that though if it means putting some of those things on.
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Blue502: it was just amusing to me when you said you have an aerospace engineering degree right after you described attaching something to your car with office binder clips.. lol :lala:
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Its called enginuity, sir. Us engineers are trained for that there kind of thing. :sillylol: Nice thing about doing it that way is they are only on there when I'm driving and take about 2 seconds to take-off or install. You don't see any pics of my car with them on there do you???
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Hehe. "Ingenuity".. I may do that myself, don't get me wrong. I have a set from years ago. They should keep the sandblasting down when I'm cruising down the island.
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they make clear plastic sheets to put on your fenders to prevent rock chips. ive seen them in porshe catalogs. I dont know where to get them or whatever, but a lot of the guys from Stuttguart like to run them.
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Im 98% sure that 3M has a clear plastic film like that. I believe I've seen it in the Corvette catalogs from MidAmerica...

I'll check and get back to you if I find it.


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mudflaps aka stone guards look nice if fit correctly.
Old 02-21-2002, 11:22 PM
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I found it!!

I found a place that sells it
http://www.ultimatedetailing.com/3m.htm

or if you want to read about it
http://www.3m.com/US/auto_marine_aer...gfast_no16.pdf

Looks like a good product. Not only to protect behind the wheels without having to use mudflaps(just look terible on a camaro to me) and you can put it on the front or whereever you may gt stone chips.

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