What are peoples opinions on fitting these? I cannot get genuine sportspack arches anymore, and the new version are rubber, which won't work to well with blending into the car.

From a recent phone conversation, the poor fitment came from the rear arches, and that the front arches weren't too bad. Is this the case? If so, I'm thinking of getting a set and just modding the rear arches. I'm quite competent with fibreglassing, so I don't think it will be too much of a drama.

Or does anyone know where I can get some genuine arches?

yuk.

keep searching for rubber or genuine ones

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I'm completely opposed to using the rubber ones, so its either genuine or something else.


Did you end up getting my disc brakes sent Steve? (its Daniel Campbell here)

We got some of the rubber type in ARCH001.....
They are a lot better than the fibreglass type in shape, but would need a fair amount of pre paint work.....IMO
Best of a bad lot as far as I am concerned.

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go the rubber ones

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ahh well yes hmmmmmmm

its do able, be prepared to "attack" witha n angle grinder, lots of swearing!

i ripped about 4 of teh bolts out of the guards.(which ill just eurothane back in). the fronts fitteed ok, they didnt fit anywhere near the arch diagrams you get of the net. so i ahd a few extra holes

rears needed alot of cuts to stretch it back out to the desired shape, and had to fibreglass them whilst they were on the car so it would keep its shape, they still shrunk once it had set and was taken off.
i have some pics uploading ill post them in a minute!

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1963morris 850
1965 solid side van
1994 rover racecar

in the first picture obviously those cuts were made larger to get the lines bak in where they were ment to be, i dont have any finished pics, but they look excellent imo

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1963morris 850
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1994 rover racecar

OK, so its definitely doable with the fibreglass ones then. At the moment I'm trying to track down some genuine ones, but if not, I'll got the fibreglass ones and mod them I think, better than making my own from scratch.

try northern minis in vic he had some last time i looked,,not sure if genuine tho...theres no much he`dosent have..and what he dosent he wil try to get when he goes to uk.witch he does threw out the year.

the ones i saw looked liked fiberglass items..but i diddnt see them up close.

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started a new project...there goes all my free time....

Freddy Sayers does fibreglass sports pack wheel flares/arches (Brisbane)

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

yeah we sell the fibreglass type, but once they are gone...NEVER AGAIN!

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Uh, the genuine ones are rubber.

I was under the impression the genuine ones are abs or some sort of flexible plastic, just not fibreglass.

They aren't RUBBER they are a mouldable PVC type plastic.

They aren't rubber in the conventional sense, the paint wouldn't stick,
they are a rubbery/plastic compound.
They're just reffered to as rubber sometimes to distinguish them from the fibreglass and
plastic copies that are out there.