In my previous post I commented on the fact that the rust damage was far worse than expected. Turned out there were several areas where the metal was pretty thin. So more patch repairs. Starting with a hole in a rather standard location; where the front bulkhead meets the inner wing. A fairly easy repair using the well proven Cardboard Aided Design method:
But the worst damage was around the left hand front strut tower. The upper part of which was seriously damaged by rust. Luckily I had a good replacement, and rust free LH strut tower among my spare parts. The angle grinder was called upon again to remove the damaged areas. But not before the body got an extra temporary support to prevent distortion, and a few reference measurements were taken:
Turned out that the metal adjacent to the strut tower was also pretty thin. So the tops of the inner wing panels was also replaced with repair panels from the donor body shell:
Fitting the LH front inner wing is next on the to-do-list.
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