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#1 steeley

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Posted 01 April 2019 - 06:38 PM

Does anyone know of a panel to replace wheel well the rest of the floor is good and I don’t fancy paying the price of a whole boot floor

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Posted 01 April 2019 - 06:58 PM

Nope unfortunately they are not sold anywhere. The only hope you have is a cut from a damaged shell with a good back end.



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Posted 02 April 2019 - 06:36 AM

Thanks anyone got an old shell with a decent boot floor

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Posted 02 April 2019 - 02:19 PM

Presumably you are handy with a welder, can braze or use a pop-riveter?

 

Because the racing regs did not permit the fitting of a smooth undertray, I cut a rectangular hole in the boot floor and replaced it with a rectangular box.  I don't know if it did any aerodynamic good, but it made the scrutineers frown.

 

To fit it, I offered it up and used a Monodex to make vertical cuts in the sides if the box to the appropriate depth of the floor, then bent the tabs outwards and pop riveted them.

 

It included the battery box, and I lowered the C of G by putting a fuel tank in it.



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Posted 03 April 2019 - 09:31 PM

Trying to keep it std

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Posted 18 May 2019 - 08:01 PM

Can I fit this type of boot floor if I don’t keep it std

Is it road legal.

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Posted 18 May 2019 - 09:32 PM

Not with rivets i wouldnt of thought...

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Posted 19 May 2019 - 03:26 PM

Sorry meant to add this link

http://www.the-arc-a...&product_id=198

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Posted 20 May 2019 - 07:00 PM

Anyone know if I can fit this for road use

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Posted 26 May 2019 - 07:40 PM

I've been looking at this as well from a road use point of view. Sprayed and I don't think they'd spot the difference

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Posted 26 May 2019 - 11:12 PM

Depe ds if the mot man has a little hammer when looking for rust, you can get some decent panel glue now days but you need a decent amount of metal to glue it to. Im not sure it would be road legal though. Your cutting a lot of floor outand its going to be within 30cm of suspension too you also need to bolt your subframe through the floor too. Is it going to be strong enough?




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