Rolling the guards ghetto style

[G-Stick]

Disclaimer: The following is provided as a GUIDE ONLY, and neither myself nor Ozhonda take any responsibility for the outcomes of someone else doing the following. You follow these steps at your own risk!

Aim: to bend the lip of the guard upwards to eliminate the tyres from scrubs.

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8559/dsc02128jo6.jpg

Tools:
Jack
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/6752/dsc02127if4.jpg

Jack stands
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9610/dsc02126sj6.jpg

Rubber Mallet
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9046/dsc02125sy0.jpg

Overall Time: 30mins to 1.5 hrs depending on how much strength u wanna use.

Step 1
Loosen the lug nuts on the rear wheels.
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/8105/dsc02115cf0.jpg

Step 2
Jack the car up and support them on jack stands
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/1330/dsc02119ju6.jpg

Step 3
Take wheel off and peel the rubber strip off the lip of the guard
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/8346/dsc02139ij4.jpg

now u can see the damage that mines been through
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/5484/dsc02140ag5.jpg

Step 4
using the top of the mallet slowing beat the lip upwards like this.
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/1984/dsc02133dc3.jpg

try to beat the lip evenly and DO NOT focus on just one spot as this may result in you bending more then just ur lip.

Step 5
once ur happy with the amount of bending/bashing you have done put back the rubber striping, wheels back on and lower ur car back to the ground.

Go for a quick drive around the block and see how it goes if scrubing is still occuring bash the lip up more till its vertical.

Finish product
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/2595/dsc02143be5.jpg
notice how the lip isnt sticking down as it used to, i did mine so it would stick up about 30-40 degrees.

How it used to be
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/5602/dsc02130ib3.jpg


This guide will not total eliminate scrubing for some cases but will ease the pain.

This will ease the scrubing untill i can afford coils :thumbsup:

[dfekm3]

Man, that is full ghetto style.. haha
I had mine done by pros with the proper machine. Costed me $50 a corner..

When you did yours, did the paint crack at all?

For other people who are going to do this to their car, I heard from people to use a hair dryer to heat up the area you are bending in to prevent the paint from cracking.. incase...

[bigjo5]

hair dryers prolly not even hot enough.

[SiReal]

woah that is really really ghetto.

[taizon]

in the 2nd last pic that u posted.. are those white lines... about 4cm long cracks in the paint?. or just scratches

[aka_NSX]

in the 2nd last pic that u posted.. are those white lines... about 4cm long cracks in the paint?. or just scratches

thats the reflection of his camera

[G-Stick]

yea thats just the camera. nah no paint cracked. i had to do it this way cuz my guards were getting owned. i even had to strip my interior so it would sit higher. now i rarely scrub, only on hard turns.

[Bayani]

You're so filo, hey? LOL

[G-Stick]

Bayani : iam viet but i always get called filo.

claymore, i know way u mean. i took my time and evenly hit the lip in and tried not to focus on one particular stop. i guess i got lucky :)

[bennjamin]

You pretty much will end with the paint chipping or cracking without previous heating of the lip. Just be aware and dont yell @ ozhonda lol

[G-Stick]

nah its all good, if i didnt roll the guards i would of had a 2 busted tyre and my guards woulda been bent by the force of the wheels hitting them.

i pretty much followed this diy on team integra but i didnt have a baseball bat.http://www.team-integra.net/sections/articles/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=698

[dfekm3]

a hair dryer is better than a heat gun.. haha

[czy_sol87]

[QUOTE=G-Stick;1056605]Bayani : iam viet but i always get called filo.
QUOTE]

lol i get the same bro

are those still my superlows in? my crx never scrubed at all with them in

good write-up btw:thumbsup:

louis

[G-Stick]

yeh those were ur super lows.. LOL. my rims are wider so it scrubed. ive now got cusco zero 2 on my dc2 so i dont need to roll the guards :thumbsup: