I started to delete the battery boxes, since the battery was relocated in to the smugglers box. This will also free up some space for additional oil cooler or so.
The nose panel need also some work. Back than when I butchered the car for Autocross, I just used some body filler to make it look OK.
I have a new lip piece coming, so this gets replaced, the rest under need is still solid, just a bit banged up.
I will fix this. Since I have the section for the air flow for the oil cooler, it made no sense to replace the complete nose panel. I would have to cut out that section again.
At this point I got most of the top section straighten out. Just waiting for the lip piece to com in so I can cut out the old and replace it.
The section where the oil cooler is located needed some modification. One of the oil line was routed in to the trunk and out again true another hole in the battery box. Since I deleted the battery boxes, I modified the section where the oil lines will be located. Here are some pictures. The large hole at the left was for the upper oil line.
On the suspension pan, I had some overlap from back than when I replaced it. So I cleaned this up and removed the overlapping section.
I saw from the inside of the smugglers box some light shining in true some small holes, so I removed the gravel guard of that section.
From the inside there was also some rust and the bottom of the vertical metal was rusted, so I cut out and replaced it with a new piece.
Welding in the new outer piece, I also deleted the hole which had a round cover mounted. This just simplifies things.
I got the support pieces for the cross member. I cleaned up the section and welded in some reinforcement pieces.
The driver side was actually very solid. Looks like there was moisture in the smugglers box and that's why the right side just rusted away over the years. So I cleaned up the old weld and added some additional welds.
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