wide arches

well lads, just thinking to myself earlier,

On road going cars, with wide arches, whats the general concencus,
rivits on show or smooth and flush fit?

now i'm not talking full quarter overfenders, but for the likes of JUN or Rocket Bunny style arches.

personnally i love the rivited on look.
it tends to be only on older cars i see it though so i'm not too sure how it would look on newer cars like say the s14's or s15's.

thoughts?

smooth could be fully blended into the cars bodyline or just the mounting screws hidden on the underside.
feel free to comment on either.

i voted smooth, just rather it, i think it gives the car a cleaner look but thats just my opinion, i dont really like the riveted look, is it a drift or road car though??

i use to hate the riveted look but i think it really suits alot of cars now.
rivets ftw especially on rocket bunny arches!!

Drift or road car I vote rivit
looks mean
blended arches = high maintance

I wouldn't like to drive a p45 car

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Originally Posted by shines14

i voted smooth, just rather it, i think it gives the car a cleaner look but thats just my opinion, i dont really like the riveted look, is it a drift or road car though??

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road cars is what i was thinking about as all sorts of shite is tolerated and
seen as looking sweet on track cars because they are track cars.
and i'm talking about looks over any form of practicality.

i'll stick it in the main post.

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Originally Posted by Alan B.

road cars is what i was thinking about as all sorts of shite is tolerated and
seen as looking sweet on track cars because they are track cars.
and i'm talking about looks over any form of practicality.

i'll stick it in the main post.

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ya if thats the case and your intrested in style id say smoothed

rivits all the way..love the rough and ready look...:)it all depends tho if you
like to keep a car mint

rivets all the way!!! if ya smooth in the arch and some how you crack/smash it, you have to remover all the filler and respray the whole wing again, with rivets ya just drill them out and replace only the over fender! or ya could even cable tie the smashed arch back together if your really lazy!:p

can there be no balanced between a mint car and rivits on show?
as in, just because a car has rivited on arches, that doesnt mean the paint and bodywork couldnt be well looked after and all fitted correctly no?

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Originally Posted by Alan B.

can there be no balanced between a mint car and rivits on show?
as in, just because a car has rivited on arches, that doesnt mean the paint and bodywork couldnt be well looked after and all fitted correctly no?

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well of course! but most people on here arent after show cars (but there are some savage minters on here!)

rivits, sprayed over if posible, for me:cool:

rivets FTW:D

rivets ftw, love that look

smooth all the way

rivets,rivets,rivets.

Rivet rivet rivet rivet :)

I think it is very possible to have a clean tidy look with the riveted arches. Really like that look at the moment

rivets look class when there done neatly i think, and not painted they look tacky painted when starts chipping, if your gonna smooh arches in dont use rivets aswell you ll see them sink after a while best to stick the arches on with p40 or something along those lines and use as litlle filler as possible cause it ll just sink and you ll see the outline of the arch

Rivets ftw:D

I love the riveted on look..... looks mean and rough and ready:D

mine are smoothed in, 400R rears that is, but i love the riveted look, and if i was to start all over again, id deffo go for the meaner look. rivets FTW

Rivets ftw :D
Mean looking :cool:

thats a fairly clear result for rivits on show anyway, 85% so far.

Cable ties ftw!! :D

Rivits all the way

i like rivets ! its very JDM and Track! but a friend of mine had the same thinking!" he had rivets but now he's smoothing them in! but i did vote for rivets!

If your going for the mean, track look then rivets a cool as f**k but in ur original post u said u dont mind form over function so I reckon you should go for smooth.

personally, i dont mind either look,
track slag or euro/clean/smooth/fresh (whatever you wanna call it) can both look awsome.

either way it would never end up a show-er and not a go-er.
couldnt have that. it was bought as a toy and will be treated as such.

but i do like the idea of combining both the track look and the hella flush look into one and comming up with something of a "brand new" road racer look by having it super clean, wide dishy wheels, slammed, and wide arches and no race graphics all over it, but that the arches have recesses for rivits that remain on show,

like this 240z.
it works fantastically as a look for older cars.
http://alscarstuff.files.wordpress.c...12/s30_001.jpg
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/4377/000d054msnt.jpg

Rivets rivets rivets, much more purposeful lookin, road or track!