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[ThermalEvent]

Hello,

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?

[sonikk4]

Magnum panels are not the best but that looks ok to me. There will always be a bit of a mismatch. 

[ThermalEvent]

Sonikk44 - thanks for the quick reply, if others feel it looks about right/ok then that is good enough for me!

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.

[Marco1972]

Even with heritage panels the fit can be hit and miss
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.

[minidaves]

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

[ThermalEvent]

Thanks for all the responses, most appreciated. looks like it is not as bad as I first thought, sound like the factory would be proud of my "adjustment"!

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?

[sonikk4]

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

[pete l]

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.

[16vmini]

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 :

 

https://youtu.be/lLNkh1P6eX8

 

 

did this last year on a jet black to ..

[NuFab]

I had a bit of a mismatch between my sill and and the bottom of the inner wing on both sides. Heritage inner wings and pattern silks.

Rightly or wrongly, I cut the tabs off, and seam welded it all together to neaten it up.

[sonikk4]

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

[jamesquintin]

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)