The car sat at Bodyform for a lot longer than I'd initially expected which was rather frustrating as there was plenty of other stuff I could have been doing with the same time. After afew weeks Peter free'd up some time and got stuck into making the new inner guard out of the old guard. I popped over on a Tuesday to drop off some wheels that came in from Japan. The outer skin of the guards had already been cut.
You can see how much has been cut away from where in inner skin still sits.
This bend is to give the inner guard a lip to rivet too and the whole thing more strength.
I was pretty surprised how thin this metal actually is, so piss weak its not funny!
Reminds me of the garage sale flyers with the tear off tabs :P
You can see in this shot he car is actually stiff enough now that where jacking it from this point the front wheel lifts off the ground well before the rear. I really need to get the rear droop shortened though when the Bilsteins get a makeover in the not too distant future. The current rear droop is total overkill and is more just an annoyance when trying to jack the car up than anything else.
Should be alot more room in there soon! =)
More soon!