Ronin FD Widebody
 

The newest Ronin product--and one that we’re extremely proud of--is the Ronin FD widebody kit. This is a full four corner wide body that’s intended to let you run 315 front and 335 or 345 rear tires. These fenders mean business and are intended for serious usage. The kit is our own and quite different than anything else available on the market. The front fenders have been available in limited production for about a year now. The rears are literally hot off the presses. I can’t tell you how many man hours we spent getting these just right. It’s HARD to make a widebody where the lines flow well with the curves the factory intended.

Just a couple shots of front development (note the lines of the edges).

https://sites.google.com/site/frijol...FDfrontiso.jpg

https://sites.google.com/site/frijol...Dfrontside.jpg


Finished pictures of a few customers rocking our fronts (it was before rears were finished so we won’t hold that against them)

Brent:
https://sites.google.com/site/frijoleels1fc/Brent1.jpg

https://sites.google.com/site/frijoleels1fc/Brent2.jpg

https://sites.google.com/site/frijoleels1fc/Brent3.jpg


Rich:
https://sites.google.com/site/frijoleels1fc/Rich1.JPG

Check the trick stainless mesh he added!
https://sites.google.com/site/frijoleels1fc/Rich2.JPG

https://sites.google.com/site/frijoleels1fc/Rich3.JPG

...continued below:

… and here is Mike AKA 65imp’s car (one of the illustrious Ronin founders). Note: Mike’s fenders were a one off in carbon, for now we are not selling them that way as we are presently smoothing a few seam lines for y’all before we send these out and we can’t do that with a carbon part. Ignore the v8, if that’s not your thing… ;-)

https://sites.google.com/site/frijol...3032Medium.JPG


Here’s the rear coming together. Mike’s car is a sheet metal widebody with a skim coat of filler to smooth it in.

https://sites.google.com/site/frijol...3029Medium.JPG


To give you an idea of what the finished rear looks like, here it is in wet sanded primer just before we started making the molds.

https://sites.google.com/site/frijol...0981Medium.JPG


Actual rear fenders fit up on a test car (Thanks Anthony!):

https://sites.google.com/site/frijol...RearFinal1.JPG

https://sites.google.com/site/frijol...RearFinal2.JPG

https://sites.google.com/site/frijol...RearFinal3.JPG

Again check out the edges. We’re taking this all the way forward under the door in order to match up to a factory seam line. These fenders are more than 5 feet long! You do get what you pay for when buying Ronin parts. One change we made from the pictures above is that we’re trimming parts at the car’s “hip” line as it’ll tuck in nicer if you want to rivet these in place AND it will be easier to smooth in if you want to bond these in place.

Before anyone asks, for now we are shipping these without a fuel door or antenna hole. Why? Smooth parts was one of the big things that the race car guys wanted, so we built our molds that way. To add the antenna hole you simply remove the antenna, fit up the fender, trace the location of the hole from below, then trim with a dremel. We recommend you use an 1/8” diameter toothed cutting head to rough out the shape and follow with a sanding drum to make the hole perfect. There are plenty of aftermarket antennas that run inside the car if you want a radio but like the smooth look.

For fuel door you have a few options. The one we like the super clean version via a filler cap relocation like Mike did:

https://sites.google.com/site/frijoleels1fc/fillcov.jpg

More info on how is in Mike’s build thread: http://www.norotors.com/index.php?topic=361.30 We should note that the final version went with a standard gas cap after we discovered that CA has none of the standard pumps that work with the “self sealing” caps. The vent opening is outside of the weather seal for the rear hatch. No fuel smell!

Other fuel door options: obviously you can cut out a section of the actual fender and retrofit the piece you just removed to become the door by using an over-center hinge and stop. You can also retrofit in an aftermarket door. (Search “fuel door” on Summit Racing for several hundred options).

We’re kind of curious to see what you clever people can come up with. If someone posts an especially clean version we might start offering it as an option for purchase. What do you got?

Pricing will always be current on our website. http://www.roninspeedworks.net/index...ory&path=60_65 We’ll be adding suggested wheel fitments and installation recommendations to our site shortly.

Feel free to use the rest of this thread to discuss, post pictures, reviews or whatever. What you see here is the culmination of a long road to make truly THE BEST widebody available for the FD. We’re damn proud and hope you like it.

-Joel Payne (for Mike, Steve, and myself)

What size are the Wed-sports in the pic above? and offset? Thanks!

I really like the location of the integration aspects. I've always wondered why nobody else used the factory weld points. Good job!

Regarding the rear wheel wells, is there any sort of "flat" section to outline the wheel arc, or is it very smooth and blended to the edge. Said differently, the FEED fenders have a very defined wheel arc that is showing up on most new vehicles. This is very different from the factory FD design that is "rolled" out to the edge. Just trying to understand which this is.

Thanks

I'll have to ask Anthony, that is his car we were testing out the new fenders on.

Thanks for the props, Both our front and rear fenders do not have the crease out near the fender lip. It is a smooth radius all the way out to the wheelwell arc. This is more similar to the factory FD appearance and less like the 350Z.

Very tempted to pull the trigger.. wondering what size wheel spacers i'll need to use running a 265 on a 11" wheel... Don't want it to look sunken at all...just sitting perfectly flush..
18x12 +12 with the wrong tires on there. these are 245's.. i'll be running 265's.
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and 18x11 +15 with 265's
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and not to jumble your thread....but rotary porn pic just because =-)
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Love the pix, You would likely want between a 10 and 20 mm spacer in the rear for that first set of wheels. Depending of course on how flush you want it. You are running a stretched tire setup, so you may like the wheel poking out a little further than the square setups below.

Here are some notes on fitment Joel made up for another customer:

This has front and rear sizes listed, and we hope to gather more info and pictures from customers as they get their widebody kits dialed in nicely.

I'd like the lip of each wheel to be flush with my fender..but it'll tuck right in under compression. What do the 7.5" back spacings come out to in mm as far as offsets go? any idea? thanks much!

Backspacing is relative to wheel width while offset is a reference point with zero being the center of the wheel.
So for 12" wide rear wheels you would want right about 6.5 inch backspacing to be flush, or zero offset. My wheels are +25 and I measure about 20-25mm wheel spacer to be flush.

did you ever get anthony's wheel sizes?

My weds are 18x10 +35 front and rear. I am running 275/35/18 nt05s which run a little on the small side.

Any updates on finished fenders mounted and painted? Still very interested

this is beautiful, are they for sale and shipped now?

Mike's car left for paint about a week ago. This is also a good reminder to send a note our prior customers to see who has one finished.

BTW... That's some good looking rotary porn. We appreciate all engines making big power.

They are. You can order through our website whenever you're ready. Most of our big composites goods are build to order but this one we've been trying to keep stock on hand for. If we're out of stock we'll at least have an order placed so it should only be a few weeks.

-Joel
(for Ronin Speedworks)

im driving to california right now for a friend, do you have them in the la area in stock for me to pick up?

Rears are in stock. Fronts we're expecting to be done on Wednesday. How long are you going to be in town? If you know you want them let us know and I'll let out composites house know that we need these immediately.

Shoot us a line at roninspeedworks@gmail.com if you'd like to chat details.

Im in texas now, I should be in cali on wednesday, id like to take it home in my truck, but i was wondering if you have more of the full style rears because i bought a car that got hailed on.

Yes, the rears are a complete quarter panel cover. Pictures of the rears are in post #2. https://www.rx7club.com/ronin-speedw.../#post11254569

Were you just looking for the rears? We have those in stock. Fronts we are hoping to have in hand tomorrow.

We just arrived in lawndale and hop to come see you tomorrow, is the full kit available?

Hello? We have just picked up other partsm and want to come see you...

Good chatting Andrew. Hope to hook you up with some parts soon.

Success on the west coast pickup.
 

Great meeting you Andrew!
Hope you got the fenders back across the country safe and sound. Any progress pictures during your install are appreciated.

Fronts are in stock?

Right now we do have one set of fronts in stock, but just sold the matching set of rears we have this morning.

Man these are beautiful!! i have yet to fully attach mine yet but wow, im really excited for the end result!!!