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yeah a miglia cage from custom cages will be going in.

not much more to do now untill im ready for the cage and the fun work can begin!

your chuffing mad

Well i've just ordered the inner wings, so i can finally get the all of the body prep/rust repair basically done!!
i think i might spend one evening in the workshop getting the old wings/sills off so as that i can crack on at the weekend as i've only got saturday to work on it.

Then i just need to sheet metal (easy) and a sheet metal folder (not so easy) so i can make my miglia box up before properly fitting the scuttle panel.

It might actually look like i'm getting somewhere then!!! (about time!)

I am going to break out some white stone chip on the inside before the cage goes in. then just clean up the bits where i need to weld.

I don't fancy trying to spray a cage once its in, especially not for my first time spraying!!!!

Abit of a pointless post but i quite exited! they're only inner wings!!! Haha.

Cheers.

NOM NOM NOM

Fantastic job!!! Just marked this thread!!!

Cheers
J

How much of the inner wing you replaceing, the whole lot? it the mounts also?

yeap, the whole lot.

i recieved them today. opened the box to find two beautiful genuine OUTER wings!

a quick call to Minispares north and its all sorted. Inners are on thier way to me and ive just got to sort out sending the outers back.

abit of mishearing down the phone line i think.

James can you do me a big favour and take many pictures as your doing it?

not a problem mate.

What do you want?

pictures as the old ones are coming off

Lining up the new ones

trimming the new ones if they need it

final finish

anything else? as you can see im abit trigger happy with the camera so i shouldnt have a problem get enough pictures!!

Putting them on more lineing them up.

I was thinking bolt a sub frame into it and use that to line it up with ie the suspension components.

well alot of money later i have two inner wings in my possesion.

i think i might head down to Riv Run on the sunday instead of tomorrow as its the show and shine, so abit more going on....

that means i can spend tomorrow getting the old inner wings off and trial fitting the new ones.

thats after sorting a little bit of rust in the boot floor and stonechipping the underneath of the bootfloor.

wont be long untill the inside is all one colour and it might actually looks half reasonable for the first time in 17 months!

is that your shell sam?

Quite good to see what lines of spot welds ill have to drill out.

viewing some recent threads it makes me realise that my shell wasn't really as bad as it felt at the time.

James, how can there be any rust on the boot floor of your car? its missing!

Edit: I've missed an update, I see you have now added a new boot floor.

Edited by minimole23 on 1st May, 2009.

Keep up Minimole! there is a boot floor in there now! Honestly! hardly the fastest paced rebuild! haha.

L/H corner near the rear most subframe mounting. just abit rusted around there which became evident when i tried to weld it.

just got to cut that little bit out and then weld a small patch in and the shell is done with all the patches! as long as i done find anything when the oversills come off.

Just a quick thought.... im going to be using a beam (sort of) but it will mean that im not going to be using the rear most mounts for the original subframe. Is there anything else that bolts there that is super important that its there or can i loose that weight aswell?

Im thinking i can loose them but i just want to double check that nothing else mounts there. Fuel cell is going to be used so no tank strap to worry about.

Yeh buddy.

Oh

i pulled patches out with my hands.

light weight mate!

get a build thread on the go! looks like it might be a long one!!!

Nah im secretive person and lazy!.

in terms of light weight.



wrong pic

Edited by Sam on 1st May, 2009.

alright! stop showing off and putting my thread down!!

im just going for a front end with the a-panels built in so.

plus i cant afford carbon fibre.

Im a tart thats all james lol.

Those two tyres that were on those 13 inch super lights. Just replaced them.

ahhhhhhhhhh!!! you bought (there you go V is that better?) those off me!!

forgot about those!! some serious tracking issues on those tyres ey!! hahaha believe it or not i think they had done about 1500 miles!!! hahaha

Anyways, managed to get the L/H inner wing on today. What a bitch it was to get the old one off!

Not looking forwards to doing the other side as ive bodged the shit out of that with a repair panel....what was i thinking!

Also got all of the patches done, dressed some welds, seam sealed, stone chipped. So quite productive!

Sam, i used the bolts/holes for the shock mounts to help line up the panel here are some pics:





panel fit not perfect but nothing abit of fettling with the freindly clamps and hammer cant sort.
























i have to shell braced to shit as you can see from the earlier pics. Ive got the A and B pillars braced. the window frame braced, with bars going from the bulk head up to those bars to bracking the bulkhead also. Then i have one going from the bulkhead to the floor.

That meant that nothing could move when i took the old wings off. then i used the bolt holes like i sad to make sure that they were in the right posistions before clamping up the other best fitting areas and then fettling the rest to fit right.

Then it was all welded in place.

anything else you want to know about the process mate drop me a PM. i'll do my best to answer.

Edited by James_H on 2nd May, 2009.

Aye. Nice one buddy.

James did you have your eyes closed when you did this bit?