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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[FourBlades]

Buy long bolts to put into the holes and stretch a tape measure between them.

I think my tram gauge from auto body tool house was around $250 or so.

They are useful for doing alignment checks as well.

John

[shuie]

Buy long bolts to put into the holes and stretch a tape measure between them.

yep, tried that first. The longest bolts I could find from the hardware store don't clear the bottom of the tub from the rear suspension console. I'll try a bolt store next week to see if they have something longer.