A final push this week to get the quarter panels finished.
Starting with cardboard templates. Then the usual bending process, with the outer curve trued up with a file and some coarse abrasive.
I'm hoping to keep the brackets simple - one bolt onto the over-rider brackets and one into the panel. I won't know if this will be good enough until a road test.
This is after etch primer, two grey primer coats and four colour coats flatted down between coats, plus two coats of lacquer, flatted and polished (over a few days). The slot goes around the over-rider bracket and I would have preferred to keep the neoprene U channel but there isn't enough clearance. Here it's fitted but it had to go.
The other side.......
This is how it fits. Held onto the bracket with a penny washer, so no drilling required. If it doesn't stay put in use I may have to put an extra hole through the bracket.
UPDATE: I did add another bolt, through a new hole in the over-rider brackets each side.
This side went straight on.
The other side took a bit of fettling.
And that pretty much brings my metalwork to a finish. All I need now is a bigger windstop, and that will wait for a while.
This mod really tidies the front and could easily be offered by the factory.
