I have been painstakingly aligning the front structure and making good progress. As I mentioned last time, I added a styrene strip to the front edge of the door openings to give the front edges of the door skins something to rest on.
The wart on the door skin is just a magnet holding the inner and outer door skins together. There’s more of a gap than I would like between the cowl and the top edge of the door skin. I will probably fill that with some styrene. The black sharpie line on the kick panel is a roughly drawn outline of where the inner door skin sits.
Here’s the other side…
The fit on the other side was worse, so I carefully adjusted the front edge of the cowl to make sure it was aligned with the firewall and then “oops!” the door doesn’t want to fit! I assumed it was my fault and measured the openings on both sides. They were the same. But then I put the door skins side-by-side…
Aaaaaaarrrrghh. I’m going to have to shave almost 2mm off the front edge of the right door skin, maybe round up to 2mm to give the edge a little clearance. Oh well, more plastic surgery needed.
Sweet!!
Wow Chris, I thought I was bad having a couple of spare rear bodies and hoods and a few other miscellaneous parts. But with what you are doing think that is probably the safest way to go!!
Ok, I’m in luck. These door skins from one of my donor kits are the same size AND with a quick dry-fit test, they fit in the openings. So they will work with at most a little massaging. I do have to rework their interiors again to accept hinges, assuming I figure out how to squeeze functional hinges into that tiny space.
What a job !!! I don’t know if I would have as much patience as you. In any case it progresses even if you encounter difficulties with each step.
I checked my doors, they are the same length. It’s strange that yours are different.