Front wheelwell wheelhouse repair Options

[shuie]

Does anyone have any good pictures or experience in repairing the front inner wheelhouse structure of a 914 tub. The best pictures I can find so far are in the bringing out the dead thread. Some really good stuff there with the factory jigs, etc.

At some point my 914 was hit hard enough on the front driver side corner to crumple the front half of the wheel well. Everything in this area was hammered back into place and painted over. I've restored all of the front suspension pieces. I don't know if they are original to the car, but the a-arms & crossmember are straight and bolt onto the car fine, so I think there is a possibility that everything might still be pretty square. I don't have a Tram gauge so I haven't measured the suspension pickup diagonals yet.

Assuming the car is still square enough to fix, I really want to do a proper structural repair. Either with a new fender, wheelhouse, front latch panel, and floorpan, or by building some kind of tube subframe that ties the strut towers and all of the front suspension points together.

Does anyone here have the fixtures to do these repairs?

These pictures are all from Jeff Hail's Bringing out the dead thread.


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[jmill]

You can make one yourself like I did. Check out the link in my signature.

[shuie]

jmil, that thread in your signature has a lot of the info I was looking for. Thanks. Nice work!

Yep, if I decide to try to do this myself I will make a similar fixture. I need to measure everything and make sure it's 100% straight and square. I don't know if I know enough to get everything perfectly level and measure everything properly. Im almost ready to put the car on a trailer and send it to someone like Scotty or Series9. If I could get a fixture that I knew was true and confirm that it bolted onto my car I would feel a lot more confident trying the repair myself.

Here is another pic from Jeff Hail's Bringing out the dead thread that shows the measurements I am going to look at first. I think I need a Tram gauge to get these right.

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