Help with cutting and flaring ALL wheel wells on 1964 Barracuda

Yes that is the car we built. It probably isn't the best comparison because nothing is stock on that car. We previously ran a 1967 Plymouth Fury in Lemons and used most of the parts from that car on the car. Lemons has a $500 build rule but your own labor does not count, we had A LOT of labor into the car to get it built.

The rear end is the stock one out of the 67 Fury, we just welded on new spring perches, so it is quite a bit wider than stock. Since we had the rear end and were building a road race car we wanted to use the wider track. The front suspension is from a 1968 Plymouth Belvedere. It is wider than the stock A-Body suspension and we basically just grafted in the frame rails and everything. We parted one out at the shop a few years ago to restore a 1969 Road Runner A12 car but kept the entire front end. We had the 73 C-Body disc brakes on the 67 Fury and wanted to use them on the Cuda. The 73 C-Body brakes use a 12 inch by 1.25 rotor that is fantastic for road racing, we also used 4 piston Viper calipers on it (brake are also exempt from the $500 Lemons rule). Not many people know this but the Chrysler Kit Cars built in the 70's used this exact set-up, the tall C-Body spindle with a B-Body suspension. We had to do a lot of work to the other suspension pieces to make this work but it works.

Alright, back to your original question. On the back for the wheel flares we basically cut it until we reached solid metal. The car was VERY rusty and after we put the rear end in with the wheels and tires it fit pretty well. We then welded in the gap to add a little reinforcement to it so if it got hit it wouldn't go into the wheel well. On the front one of our team members is a great fabricator and had a little fun with it. He measured it out and made the flares himself, it looks good and it cleared everything.

We had a set of 18's that we used in the first race but haven't used them since. We use Dunlop Direzza's with stock 17 inch mustang rims and they worked pretty well. We had a set of 2008 (I think) wheels and a set of earlier ones. The early ones were lighter and had better clearance on the front.

Hope this helps, don't have any exact measurements for what we did, we just kind of did it and fabbed till stuff fit. Also since the width of the front and back track are quite a bit different than stock not sure how helpful it will be to you.