KugaWestie Posted October 13, 2019 Author Posted October 13, 2019 47 minutes ago, AdgeC said: Continue to be impressed by your skill, ingenuity and staying power Gary! Keep it up. Thanks. It won’t beat me, it won’t beat me, never never never
corsechris Posted October 13, 2019 Posted October 13, 2019 If it helps...I had to move a wheel arch about 4" outwards on my last build, and both doors needed the skins splitting off to get the hinges to work and about 1" adding to make them come close to fitting the door seal lip on the tub. The front clamshell was a tad off too..... The pitfalls of mixing very old and abused mouldings with one brand new one (the tub in my case).
NickBW Posted October 14, 2019 Posted October 14, 2019 13 hours ago, KugaWestie said: Two layers of glass have been placed both sides of the slits Not what i would have thought of doing. Great thread. I would have cut the door down, tried to re-mold the contour of the body back into the door and failed miserably. Great work!
KugaWestie Posted October 14, 2019 Author Posted October 14, 2019 4 minutes ago, NickBW said: Not what i would have thought of doing. Great thread. I would have cut the door down, tried to re-mold the contour of the body back into the door and failed miserably. Great work! Thanks - It might not be the right solution yet but if it works it is by far the easiest. The acid test will be when I offer up the windscreen to the body to see whether there are any huge gaps now
corsechris Posted October 14, 2019 Posted October 14, 2019 I think with the benefit of 20:20 hindsight, yep using the screen as the template to decide what to tweak would have been good... Given the door is a double-skin type structure, you'd certainly expect it to be reasonably stable on the whole....but that does assume it was the right shape to start with of course! How did the two doors compare? The other one looked pretty good from your previous pictures.
KugaWestie Posted October 14, 2019 Author Posted October 14, 2019 1 hour ago, corsechris said: I think with the benefit of 20:20 hindsight, yep using the screen as the template to decide what to tweak would have been good... Given the door is a double-skin type structure, you'd certainly expect it to be reasonably stable on the whole....but that does assume it was the right shape to start with of course! How did the two doors compare? The other one looked pretty good from your previous pictures. I have the windscreen already but decided to do the alteration and then offer it up, my reasoning being it would be easier to asses once the body was solid again rather than trying to avoid knocking the prop out by accident and subsequently dropping or damaging the windscreen etc. If the reshape does not work with the windscreen it will be easy to revert it back to how it was before. I am hoping this is not the case though as trying to reshape the door will be more difficult and take a lot more effort. The drivers door just fitted pretty well straight off
corsechris Posted October 14, 2019 Posted October 14, 2019 You have to pick one thing as a target to work to don’t you. I guess pick the thing that’s hardest to change as the reference and make the rest fit that!
KugaWestie Posted October 14, 2019 Author Posted October 14, 2019 Tonight the wedge got removed, and the result is a huge improvement. Some filling on the body on the horizontal edge will deal with what mismatch is left. Viewed from above with a straight edge horizontally along the door/body joint Viewed from the side looking towards the centre of the car. Horizontal leading edge of the door on the right and body on the left. I can probably get the door a bit lower by taking some material out of the inner horizontal edge and then some filler on the body side should get this flowing nicely. I think that’s a good result
KugaWestie Posted October 14, 2019 Author Posted October 14, 2019 I also offered up the windscreen and this will still fit ok
KugaWestie Posted October 14, 2019 Author Posted October 14, 2019 7 minutes ago, Stu Faulkner said: Excellent work Gary. Thanks. Its amazing what can be achieved with a bit of bravery and some angle grinder butchery
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted October 14, 2019 Posted October 14, 2019 What a result!
KugaWestie Posted October 14, 2019 Author Posted October 14, 2019 3 minutes ago, Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary said: What a result! Thanks. It’s a massive difference, really surprising what can be done really
Nic Chase (NICO) - Shropshire & Mid-Wales AO Posted October 15, 2019 Posted October 15, 2019 Great work Gary. This thread continues to amaze.
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