Hi All,
I'm getting stuck back into the bodywork. I really want the car in paint this summer.
To me the bodywork is a bit overwhelming at times. I'm much happier welding and machining things. I'm now breaking it down into smaller jobs and attacking a bit at a time so it doesn't seem so bad. This is probably boring stuff to most but posting it up here helps me stay motivated.
I finally got back to the passengers door sill. I had welded in an extra side intrusion brace in that linked the dash hoop to the door lock pillar. This helps stiffen up the door hinge and lock area and also provide a scaffold to build a door sill on.
I had finished the drivers side but never got back to the passengers side. Well I got stuck in on Saturday and got it all foamed, sanded to shape and then glassed in. Just got to hit it with some filler and a bit of sanding now.
The other job that I've been working on is getting the boot lid to fit nice. Mine was pretty horrible and it looked like the boot lid was just the wrong shape or something as it wouldn't align properly no matter what I did. I decided what it needed was the back of the body pushed out a bit to match the curve of the boot lid.
I cut the join between the back edge of the boot floor and the body and flexed it out about 6mm and then glassed it back together.
Once the fiberglass had set I pulled the spacer block out and it now fit's much better. I've got to put another couple of layers of mat in there to make sure it's strong and cover up the gap where the wood block was.
The boot lid is fitting in much better with the body curve more closely matching the lid.
The next thing to sort out is the panel gap around the boot lid. It's huge at the moment.
I'll grind the edge of the boot lid and extend the lip with a strip of fiberglass all around. I can then cut it to more closely fit the boot opening.
Cheers
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