Magnum Half Floor Replacement Issue
#1
Posted 22 October 2017 - 06:33 PM
Looking for a bit of advice on this as it does not look right to me,
I have recently fitted a half floor to my project and had issues then fitting an inner wing repair panel to new floor (which needed quite a bit of fettling to get right).
Now i have offered the outer sill up and it just does not look right, what do people make of this?
#2
Posted 22 October 2017 - 06:39 PM
Magnum panels are not the best but that looks ok to me. There will always be a bit of a mismatch.
#3
Posted 22 October 2017 - 07:06 PM
Looking at where it meets the inner wing, its like the floor should be 2 cm inwards towards the centre of the car - the sill splash edge would the line up.
I could remove the front sill edge and seam weld to the inner wing? It would not be OEM but i think it would tidy it up.
#4
Posted 22 October 2017 - 09:35 PM
That looks pretty good to me
Magnum panels are well known for a slightly less quality fit ( thats me being polite 🙂 )
As said you always have to fettle these things to get a decent end result
Edited by Marco1972, 22 October 2017 - 09:36 PM.
#5
Posted 23 October 2017 - 07:10 AM
looks ok to me, look at how the used to get some panel fit at the factory and it was a 18oz hammer to adjust, they all require a bit of pushing pulling and adjusting to get a reasonable fit, and factory was only a reasonable fit as no 2 cars were gtee'd to be the same
#6
Posted 23 October 2017 - 05:15 PM
What would people suggest to removing the lip where the inner wing meets the sill lip? then fold the inner wing lip over the sill and plug weld?
Or do i keep both lips where they join and prehaps add a bit of material to the inner wing lip to bring it in line with the sill end?
#7
Posted 23 October 2017 - 05:59 PM
You keep that lip from the flitch to where it attaches to the end of the outer sill. I normally do two plug welds there then tidy it up. Where the vertical section of the outer sill meets the flitch that i pulse weld to give a seamless finish.
You can see the gap in this picture
#8
Posted 24 October 2017 - 07:19 AM
Neil, looking at your plugwelds, how fast is the wire coming out of your welder ? I can't seem to find the right settings
Edited by pete l, 24 October 2017 - 07:20 AM.
#9
Posted 24 October 2017 - 09:05 AM
yea looks ok to me to . i just doing half floors to , but went with the sills pre spot welded on , you can see my progress here :
did this last year on a jet black to ..
#10
Posted 24 October 2017 - 04:50 PM
Rightly or wrongly, I cut the tabs off, and seam welded it all together to neaten it up.
#11
Posted 24 October 2017 - 05:10 PM
Neil, looking at your plugwelds, how fast is the wire coming out of your welder ? I can't seem to find the right settings
I am on high power setting with a wire speed of just under 9 on my 135 TE
#12
Posted 28 October 2017 - 08:00 PM
I had the same panel as you and it's a different shape at that bottom tab.. It look like they use two passes to make the panel? One to cut it out and one to bend it?
On mine I am using the heritage sill as the master and making the magnum inner wing tab fit that (adding new metal where I need to)
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