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Mick Cliff wrote:Your photo yes - do you want me to remove it?.

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It was my car when I took the pic ....
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Thanks for that pic Andy, that's quite a difference.
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Can you buy R flares? Or make them by cutting part of an RS flare? Or would you need to fabricate them yourself?

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Post by Lightweight_911 »

Don't know anywhere that does steel 911R rear flares - GT Racing however does a grp version:

http://www.gt-racing.com/
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Post by bahama68 »

Cheers Andy.

Just looked at the website and noticed they don't do a fibre-glass engine lid for the R. Is that because it was aluminium? They do one for ST's, but it states 69+. Are the engine lids for swb and lwb different sizes? I thought they were the same.

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Post by Lightweight_911 »

John - the 'production' 911R's (all 20 of them !!) had grp engine lids. Only R3 (the 3rd of the 4 pre-production prototypes) had an aluminium engine lid.

I don't know why GT Racing doesn't list a 911R grp engine lid on their website (lwb lids do fit swb cars) - I got my carbon fibre version from Getty Design:

http://www.gettydesign.com/Catalog/2006 ... %201.1.pdf
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Post by bahama68 »

Andy - Noticed both the websites you mentioned are for companies in the US. Does it make financial sense to get stuff from there or is it just a quality thing?

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Post by Lightweight_911 »

Still working on the car - hope it will be sorted in time...

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Post by hot66 »

looks great Andy 8)

I assuming you are heading back out to the garage as we speak ;) :lol:
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Phwoooaaarrrrr :P
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Stunning 8) 8) :wink:
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super cool 8) 8) 8)
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Post by bazz55 »

now that is sweet!!! lovely work!!
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oh my gawd :shock:

looking absolutely fantastic Andy 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Post by Peter »

Fantastic. Looking forward to seeing that in the flesh 8)
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