The BAD AST Project - Faze II

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Did some much needed cleaning during the week. It's hard to believe how many c-clamps and vice grips we used doing the engine cover rebuild. I am back to working 56 hrs so I don't get much time in the shop during the week. I'll do a little bit of work but most of the fab time will be on the weekends.
We got the rear wheel wells trimmed and cleaned up today and we also cut out the old rear rails.
Because I am re-using the old wells we needed to square up the cuts I made when I removed them. We squared them up on the table and used my height gauge, with a marker hose clamped to it, to mark a line around them. Worked nice.

The wells all marked up and ready to trim.

After an hour or so of cutting, grinding and sanding we have some cleaned up wheel wells.

The pass. side clamped into it's approximate position. This is just a look see. You can see the original rail still occupying space under it.

Mel starting the first cut on the rear rails. These are welded into the unibody of the van.

After removing both rails there is a lot of room in there for tires.



Did a little mocking up with the rear tires. Looks sweet doesn't it.

Lots of room for tire here.

This week I am going to work on getting the tire mocked up correctly and possibly cutting some tin for the wheel well extensions.
Thanks for looking
Mark