You can grind about 3/8ths of an inch off the inner fender lip... but you
have to be careful if you're trying to preserve good paint.
You can "rool" the fender out with a suitable sized dowel or baseball bat,
but, again, you must be careful.
I've seen some racers actually section out the lip, and raise the lip in
relationship to the fender, to give a "stock look".
Finally, the best thing you can do is add a Panhard rod, and adjust the side
to side placement of the rear axle to best locate the tires between the
fenders.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Snover [mailto:ricksnover@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 8:08 AM
To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: rear wheel clearance
At 05:51 AM 2/6/2007, Bill L wrote:
>...no, that one sits funny...
>...at the ABFM Portland, there is another 66 like mine, but nicer.. and it
>too sits higher.. not as high as the ebay sprite tho.. .. i think.. (don't
>know) that they put springs from a later car in both examples...
My 64 had that "stinkbug" look, sitting too high in the rear due to longer
leaf springs from a later model, so we put the right springs in and now the
left rear tire rubs on the inside of the fender. There's still some
clearance on the right side, but you can't even get your fingers all the
way in between tire and fender on the left. It doesn't rub not too bad with
just me in the car, but it really squealed when I added 200 lbs of
navigator for a rally a couple weekends ago. (Ended up parking the Sprite
and taking third place in my Mustang.)
Maybe the "DPO" wasn't so 'D' after all.
Rick
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Rick Snover, San Diego
'59 Speedwell Sprite (VARA EP #17)
'64 Sprite Mk III
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