Week 17-18 January 2014 Sheet Metal Work

Time to start fitting all the mating surfaces... and lucky for me I had this extra sheetmetal equipment at my shop... I happen to also own an HVAC company.  I have larger equipment at the shop but this 3' shear & finger break work for most everything.

3' shear

3' finger break

qtr panel pinch seam

view from below- sheet metal fabbed to mate with pinch seam

Week 15-16 January 2014 Driver qtr.

You'd think having done the passenger side already, But I outsmarted myself... this time I mocked up the panel as before... but this time instead of working on it in place on the car... I set it up on the workbench and worked on it at a more convenient height...  it all looked great...but when I installed it I realized that on the first panel I welded the flare in with the panel "flexed"... when I attempted to install the panel I realized I with the flare complete I couldn't flex the panel as I had on the passenger side...

Well there went a week... arghh... so I scrapped it & started from scratch... no pics of the screw up... but here is the drivers side all complete. 

Mock up of how the rocker will come together... using the '05 plastic skirt... I expect I'll have to make a custom one out of fiberglass to fit correctly.