Yesterday I got pretty much the back end back together.
then removed the rest of the stuff off the mid section
I also removed the front subframe
going back a while now the only panel with a few dents still in is the drivers side wing. So I purchased a cheap wing off eBay and decided it’s abot time I sorted it out.
So off came the bumper.... with the wing as one of the bolts decided it’s head would round off.
with the bumper off I got a closer look at where I’m going to eventually fit the FMIC.
Also noticed the air con rad wasn’t looking so healthy. I’ll probably just get rid of the A/C system. Can’t see much point in replacing it as there’s more benefits with getting rid of it. Like bigger FMIC, less parasitic loss and a bit of weight saving.
Back to the wing. As I mentioned I got hold of another one. I’m not fussed about the colour as the whole car will be getting a new colour coat.
However there are a couple of bits about the wings.
the original has 3 or 4 dents in it plus the area that bolts to the sill is shot.
the eBay wing is rot where it bolts to the bumper and there’s at least one little dent in it (not so much of a good buy)
but hey I’ll use it any way and sort it out. So out came the disc cutter and I cut the part out of the original wing
then painstakingly TIG welded it to the new wing. Quite possibly the hardest thing I’ve ever had to weld as anything over 8 amps just blew holes in it. I actually found welding the cutting edges of razor blades together far easier than this.
