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Right back down there again today
Had my brothers camera yesterday and the pics didn’t come out too clear for some reason, but got mine today here’s the underneath of the calibra floor all stitch welded up
here’s the de ruster all dried up, the dis coloured bits just brush off
As the rear of the floor sits about 4 inches higher than the original astra some of the compartment cut outs that used to be inside the car, are now going to be outside, so made some plates up
and the other side
speaking to shager with the 4x4 white astra he said with the inner arches sitting higher one of the inner quarter holes needs plating up too
and the other side, thought I’d just do the other holes this side so its all nice and smooth and flush
then thought I might as well do all the holes on the other side, getting carried away again, I can see this going the same way as the engine bay did already lmao
then it was time for a well overdue sweep up, grinding makes so much mess :lol:
then it was time to call up some enforcement and my two hands just weren’t enough to get the floor in, so called up some assistants andy and bruce. Coincodencely Drizz and his mate turned up for a look too so we had a right party going on.
When I initially lined everything up, not having a clue what goes where I decided to start at the joint behind the seats, putting the calibra floor exactly where the astra floor was removed, but once we got the subframe on and wheels on it was real clear the floor was way to far backwards. Had to move a couple of inches forward. We measured the wheelbase off my red one and used that as the base length.
So moved the whole floor forward a couple of inches so the calibra actually overlaps the astra floor now. And tacked in place
andyman holding the wheel up in the arch, snap shot courtesy of drizz lol
now a problem with moving the floor forward a few inches, its made it a bit short:lol:
so going to use the rest of the floor that I cut off, and cut the while section in
the reason for doing this instead of just using a plate, means I can carry on the chassis legs right to the rear panel, and will use the nice oridional lip on the boot floor and chassis legs to weld onto the rear panel
just quickly tried in the calibra inner arches too and they don’t look too far out which is handy
looks like pretty much all the holes I go carried away welding up needed to be welded up anyway
and that’s how I left it today, ready to be welded in
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