Ivan's coupe: bodywork is done

[Ivan141]

Captain Bodgit's log, past 2 weeks:

Bought myself some lighting so I can see how bad my welds are:


Patched up the upper spring perch:


Taped together, imagining how it will all fit together later:


This weekend:

Persuaded the panhard support to be part of the car again. It aint pretty, but it will do.


In this pic you see the misery that awaits me beneath the filler neck. Also a last minute captive nut for the fuel tank that I forgot to put in earlier.


Unfortunately a hollow space is going to be created above the spring perch, so I just took the same approach as toyota did and made a hole so the water has a place to go (down). Good opportunity to test my hole swaging kit for the first time.


Working atmosphere:


Then I welded some stuff in place and thought I'd have a look at the fitment so far. Sadly I made an oversight on the angle of the shockabsorber relative to the body, so it will need some wedges to reduce the load on the shock topmount. Mistakes are easily made when you dont know what you're doing


Here with the original spring.