How To Widebody A 5th Gen

My Type-S · Post by **Carlosfandango** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 4:29 pm

Schweet

Always fancied doing this with my old Opel Manta. I'd have cheated though, as a German company called Mattig used to make a wide body kit for them

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 4:34 pm

yeah i used to own a wideboy manta coupe

My Type-S · Post by **Carlosfandango** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 4:59 pm

There's a few folk that seem to have owned Mantas, and Capris, then Ludes

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 5:59 pm

yeah you either like coupes or not

Dobbs · Post by **Dobbs** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 7:05 pm

Awesome!

How long did each rear arch take to do?

I'm curious about the metal prep conditioner you mentioned - how do you apply and later remove it and what brand do you use?

Dobbs.

JoeDaddy · Post by **JoeDaddy** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:35 pm

Dobbs wrote:Awesome!

How long did each rear arch take to do?

I'm curious about the metal prep conditioner you mentioned - how do you apply and later remove it and what brand do you use?

Dobbs.

Dobbs It took me about 2 days per arch just to do the fabrication and prep it for the bodywork, then another 2 days to do the bodywork, final glaze and primer. The metal prep I use is made by a company named MARHYDE and the product is called "ONE STEP", this product is applied by hand or brush and once it's on and has dried there is no need to remove it, it also attacks rust and keeps it from spreading. Very good product i've used it for years, now DuPont makes a similar product and it's called "METAL PREP" but cost about 3 times as much but works well none the less.

Bri · Post by **Bri** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:51 pm

Epic work, made sticky. there are a few of us been wanting to make this happen. Thanks for the how to

JoeDaddy · Post by **JoeDaddy** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 10:19 pm

Wow really Bri, Thanks. Well I'll make sure to find some more pictures and go more into details of all the materials that are being used as well as the step by step pictures. I will continue to add more and more information as I can to make this modification as easy as possible for everyone. For those of you that have no access to a welder there is a way to achieve this modification as well using "3M Panel Bond", I'll be posting that process as well. Glad to be apart of this group and look forward to chatting with all of you.

Post by **fweakyg** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 11:48 pm

mercutio wrote:yeah i used to own a wideboy manta coupe

My dads got an opel manta GT rotting in front of his house ! We have had 2 of them now and they just end up going scrap as he just lest them rot ( go fiigure ) !!!!

Anyways its no secret here that I'm not a 5th gen fan ( soorryyyy ) lol Ive always said that they have lost the sexy curves that 4th have and fair play for you to give her some curves. Good Job

stk prelude · Post by **stk prelude** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 11:58 pm

fweakyg wrote:
mercutio wrote:yeah i used to own a wideboy manta coupe
My dads got an opel manta GT rotting in front of his house ! We have had 2 of them now and they just end up going scrap as he just lest them rot ( go fiigure ) !!!!

Anyways its no secret here that I'm not a 5th gen fan ( soorryyyy ) lol Ive always said that they have lost the sexy curves that 4th have and fair play for you to give her some curves. Good Job

1st gen.. 2nd gen.. 3rd gen.. no curves... o wait.. 4th gen got curves..!!! then 5th gen !