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[sonikk4]

Pinned the arch in place and then offered up the quarter panel and arch close out panel, not good so after a few tweaks here and there it all lined up nicely.

 

So the arch got a good dose of welding and ended up looking like this

 

Chucked a wee patch into the bulkhead after the damage i caused getting the arch and everything else off. Just needs a good cleaning up then it will be time to weld the whole thing in. Then it will time to repeat on the other side.

[Covert]

Looks awesome neil, i see where you have plug welded the lip on the healboard to the floor, have you also done the other lip that attaches to the underside if the floor ?
Thanks

[sonikk4]

Looks awesome neil, i see where you have plug welded the lip on the healboard to the floor, have you also done the other lip that attaches to the underside if the floor ?
Thanks

 

Yes i have and will clean all of the welds back once the car is on the spit. It will certainly be a lot stronger than the factory spot welds. They are quite poor on this wee motor.

[Covert]

Cool thanks matey, that was my plan too , so long as im on the right track !

[sonikk4]

Cool thanks matey, that was my plan too , so long as im on the right track !

 

On my boys car i plug welded and seam welded on the inside just for good measure. A bit OTT but it will never break.

[sonikk4]

So after much trial fitting the r/h arch is in. Trial fitted with everything in place

Then it was time to slave this wee bracket in place

 and then welded in place

Then after checking everything else still fitted

It was welding time

and then cleaned up

 so hopefully next week the waist rail will go in. The arch front closeout will be left for the time being until the inner sill is done.

[CBJ805T]

Hi Neil, 

 

I've got my boot floor assembly arriving this weekend and I was just after some advice about chopping it out. Like you, I will also be replacing the inner arches and as such I had been thinking about just cutting the inner arches above the line of boot-floor to arch spots, to release the boot floor. 

 

However I can see from your photos below, you've drilled out the spots on the arches, even though they are going - presumably to retain them as a datum. Did you find you needed these datums when refitting the boot floor, or if doing it again, would you have yourself the job of drilling the spots?

 

Any other advice on this job welcome

 

Cheers

 

Chris

Mmm found this on the floor today

 

Think it came from here

 

And a  classy bodge, never seen this before

Yep the body shop welded the rear valance to the trim strip W.T.F!!!!    

 

little bit more cleaning up to do tomorrow then a trial fit of the floor.

[sonikk4]

Chris, originally I was only changing the outer sections of the arch hence why I went to the effort of drilling out the spot welds. However that all went belly up when I found rust on the inners as well. If it was not for doing that I would have just cut it all out and then finish off the old spot welds by either drilling them out or grinding back.

The best thing to do is use your heelboard and rear panel as datum points to slave the floor in place and if still fitted the rear subframe stiffeners. If the arches are staying in obviously that will help as well.

[CBJ805T]

HI Neil, 

 

thanks for your advice. Both inner arches are shot so I'll be replacing these. However I'll leave them and the rear sub stiffeners in to alight the floor. 

 

much appreciated

 

Chris 

[sonikk4]

The r/h side got finished off as far as possible last week, the waist rail was changed and i refitted the rear subframe rear mount

 

Then onto today, the left side was ripped into and pleased with the results so far,

Quarter panel before

and after

all of the removed bits

 

New panel slaved in place along with the arch

 

So hopefully tomorrow the arch will be welded in place

[evansisgreat]

This is such a brilliant thread for me right now. It's like you've just gone ahead and made me a step by step guide. It's all looking great. I hope I'm able to get everything half as good.

I'm just looking at replacing the back panel from the rear screen down and I'm not 100% sure where to cut. Did you use the new panel as a guide or did you remove a little of it before offering it up? Any advice as always greatly appreciated.

[sonikk4]

This is such a brilliant thread for me right now. It's like you've just gone ahead and made me a step by step guide. It's all looking great. I hope I'm able to get everything half as good.

I'm just looking at replacing the back panel from the rear screen down and I'm not 100% sure where to cut. Did you use the new panel as a guide or did you remove a little of it before offering it up? Any advice as always greatly appreciated.

 

I offered up the new one first but marked my cut line roughly 1/2" below the final fit line. This gave me plenty of options to move things around if needs be. Then i cut the complete thing off. That was final trimming was minimal.

 

I'm glad the thread helps.  

[sonikk4]

Should have posted these on friday but hey ho.

 

Arch is now in, a few more plug welds to do and grinding back

[sonikk4]

The only gripe i have with the Heritage arches is the small tang that should be at the rear of the arch. For some reason they no longer have them so that was something i had to add to both of them.

[Wise Old Elf]

I did wonder if I had fitted mine incorrectly as I also have no tang on either of mine. That's one less thing to worry about :)