Fit up is not going well…. I bolted the front pin location at 34” and the radiator mounting points at 28” but something is not right… the bottom of the radiator mount is not aligned correctly… I am reluctant to cut the drivers side but I can not see any other option.
Can anyone confirm that...
Of course I had to 'fix' the brand new stuff because I am smarter than the engineer that probably spent 1000 hours evaluating the amount of welding needed...
The cowl had some rust behind the fender aprons that I cut out, and also replaced the entire section on the right side that was damaged by a clutch failure.
Ended up cutting out a pretty big section on the right side to get back to clean metal. I suppose I could have replaced the entire cowl...
surprisingly almost no rust, but unfortunately hit in front somehow in the past that buckled/collapsed both rails bad enough that I could never bring myself to sell it if I didn't replace them both.
Thank you for the dimensions to check... that will help a lot.
Passenger side rail is out now, took longer than it probably should have, the drivers side is going much faster. Thankfully the floor does not appear to be rusty... if it had been rotten the car would have just gotten parted out.