Ivan's coupe: bodywork is done

[Ivan141]

And I'm back for another round of the never-ending project. Landed in the Netherlands yesterday and I had the day off, so off to the barn it was.

Today's tasklist consisted of multiple small-fry jobs:
-Grinding back some earlier welding
-Placing a captive nut for the steering column gaiter.
-Install bumper mount points (rivnuts)
-See how far I get with fitting sideskirts.

Here's some crappy pictures to hurt your eyes with:

-M6 rivnut for the bumper to fender mount should do (used stainless here).


-Same as viewed from bottom.. this pic also betrays the car's rear end frankenstein patchwork nature.


-Hard to see, but I spot welded the nuts in 2 places to avoid them ever coming loose.


-A Haslbeck sideskirt was offered up.. Thing of interest: store these plastic parts without weighty items stacked on them... everything was deformed :S


-After looking at everyones pretty pictures of these skirts, I am quite dissapointed with the fit of mine... and the added hole in the side, which frankly is necessary for this to fit right. Needs pressing in here.


-Here's where welding your own non-oem fenders comes to haunt you.
This side is maybe 1,5-2 mm's too wide, so the end tab that sits in the door jamb needs to be bent to accommodate for this.


-They look cool though:


-Had to do some heating and bending to get the bottom lip to line up neatly.



-Made rivnut fittings for one side along the bottom lip. There was not much space for rivnuts (and I refuse to use self-tappers), so I had to add some material first.


-Had to weld them from the back because I broke the cheap chinese tool I had for them . The layers of that bottom lip where too thick for the rivnuts I had.... this will work equally well though:


Sadly my phone battery was dead after that last picture so there will be no more eyesores for now.