The BAD AST Project - Faze II

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Friday and Saturday we spent working on fender wells. The Right front is just about ready to weld in as are both rear tubs. I want to do some major cleaning and painting in the rear before we get those in for good and the right front has just a bit of tweaking to get it ready for welding...
Here you can see the front clearance pocket tacked in place. I am developing a reinforcement for the outside edge.

The dogleg piece above the tire is the new closeout for the firwall to inner well joint. This is on the inside. The holes you see are for spot welding the piece in place.

Here it is from the front. This new ledge will carry the front edge of the inner well along with the rear of the forward closeout as soon as we get it developed. We are working around the HVAC box on the front of the firewall. We had to do a little trimming on that to get it to fit. I need to get pics of that. Didn't think to take any while we were trimming...

This is without the new dogleg piece. You can see the two pieces we have coming together below it. Thes will be spot welded to the new piece from underneath.

This is the outer corner of the "chopped off" front fender. See the little triangle area I need to fill?

I made a greenboard template and bent up this little cover that will get welded in and seam sealed with the rest of this mess.

Snapped in place...

Here is all of the pieces clecoed in place.
We actually used most of the old inner pieces we cut out. Just moved them inboard and up a bit to make room...

Looking from the drivers side. I have to admit we cut out more than we needed too. We will be adding some of the pieces back in as we weld it up.

I am very surprised the HVAC unit fits as well as it does. Just a little trimming on the bottom flange and heater core box and we have plenty of room for tire.