So I decided this weekend to get a move on with my offside rear wing and avid readers will have seen that I have been working on this whole area, starting with the boot floor repairs and then moving on to cutting out the rear lower inner and outer sill panels. However they all lead into the rear wing so it came to be that last week I took delivery of a lovely box of bits from Messrs Robsport. Inside it were panels to fix the rear lower sill area, an inner rear wheel arch lip, an outer lip and the panel that repairs the rear wing (front) lower area where it meets the rear wing.
The latter area has to be cut out when replacing the outer sill, so Robsport's panel is a godsend. The area on Bessy is just a big hole where the area had been cut out, but the new panel trial-fitted like a glove, even over the remnants of the old metal.
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| You can see some panel damage here. What to do? |
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| What a fit. Makes up for the front inner wheel arch panels! |
Next job was to draw a line where the old metal would need to be cut out, and, err, cut it out.
That done, I offered up the new outer wheel arch lip and to my delight found that this fitted wonderfully too, so I did the same and cut the old one off.
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| Outer arch lip cut away to reveal a not-too-bad inner. |
Underneath, I found that the inner wheel arch lip was pretty sound, just needing some localised repairs. The old rusty metal was cut out and sections of a repair panel welded in. I didn't cut the new repair panel as, if I wasn't going to use it, I wanted to be able to re-sell it. Steel is money, after all. The new sections were cut from a repair panel I bought on ebay ages ago and I have no idea which corner of the car it was originally designed to fix, but the profile was about right so I chopped it up and used it.
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| Sections of arch welded in to the inner arch lip. |
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