Ivan's coupe: bodywork is done

[Ivan141]

Keeping at it:

Thought I would get a lot more done today than I did last time, but I was mistaken. Oh well.

Spent the better part of 2 hours cleaning up the wheelwell before I could start welding. Damn brown undercoating is very hard to get rid off.
Found a severly surface-rusted bit of steel lurking beneath a crunchy bit of undercoating, so I cut it out and patched that up first.
After that, I made a start with the front reinforcement, this time added an inner one to start with:


After that, I built the outer using the template I made for the other side.
Off course I forgot I added a lip to the other one, so I ended up having to weld one to it afterward.


I also took the time to make 2 internal gussets to really stiffen things up.
As you can see they are U-shaped, this is a must because the wiring loom still has to fit through there.



By this time I was ready to go home, after a failed attempt at making a stiffening piece for the roof to B-pillar section, but I pushed myself to at least do the spotwelding to the door seams.


Next time I'll be trying to retrofit the new gussets to the front reinforcement I built last week, doing some spotwelding around the rear window, left rear side window, and probably a whole lot of cleaning up again, in preparation for it's eventual sandblasting.