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| shuie |
 Mar 12 2013, 11:51 AM
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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. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/lh3.googleusercontent.com-2075-1363110702.3.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/lh4.googleusercontent.com-2075-1363110702.4.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/lh6.googleusercontent.com-2075-1363110702.5.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/lh4.googleusercontent.com-2075-1363110702.6.jpg) |
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| shuie |
Mar 15 2013, 06:30 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 352 Joined: 17-May 04 From: baton rouge, la Member No.: 2,075 |
Does anyone know if the wheelhouse panels were different on an early car vs. a later impact bumper car? Repair panels for this part of the car are not real easy to find.
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| gms |
Mar 15 2013, 09:44 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,721 Joined: 12-March 04 From: Chicagoland Member No.: 1,785 Region Association: Upper MidWest 
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QUOTE(shuie @ Mar 15 2013, 07:30 AM)  Does anyone know if the wheelhouse panels were different on an early car vs. a later impact bumper car? Repair panels for this part of the car are not real easy to find. The front wheel houses are the same all years except for the very early cars (1969) with different cowl and front fenders. |
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shuie Front wheelwell wheelhouse repair Mar 12 2013, 11:51 AM
falconfp2001 Awesome pics Mar 13 2013, 02:43 PM jmill You can make one yourself like I did. Check out t... Mar 13 2013, 08:41 PM
shuie jmil, that thread in your signature has a lot of t... Mar 14 2013, 06:48 AM mr914
Does anyone know if the wheelhouse panels were d... Mar 23 2013, 05:03 PM A&PGirl I'm very interested in this as well. I have to... Mar 15 2013, 01:00 PM Katmanken Me too.
I've got a car where the DAPO bondo... Mar 15 2013, 05:51 PM gms
Me too.
I've got a car where the DAPO bondo... Mar 16 2013, 10:40 AM gms
Me too.
I've got a car where the DAPO bondo... Mar 16 2013, 10:42 AM shuie Any tricks for getting an accurate measurement of ... Mar 23 2013, 11:45 AM FourBlades Buy long bolts to put into the holes and stretch a... Mar 23 2013, 11:49 AM shuie
Buy long bolts to put into the holes and stretch ... Mar 23 2013, 12:22 PM sixnotfour buy some all thread and cut to length Mar 23 2013, 05:40 PM |
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