Rktr4a Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 Hi all, Anyone have pics of front chassis strengthening kit fitted on car, the restoration manual I have is pretty vague . regards Rob Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rcreweread Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 Rob Attached are some photos of my take on fitting the strengthening plates to my 4A with additional fillets I put in because it seemed logical - wherever possible I tried to support the original plates with additional welding to adjacent structures etc and where there weren't any immediately adjacent, I made up filler peices in 3mm plate and welded in. I did the side you can see ( Nearside) whilst having a full dummy suspension set up on the other side to ensure everything would fit - be especially careful on the very front plate as you need to make sure this won't foul the bumper support bracket when its fitted - I forgot about this originally. I haven't dressed and cleaned these welds yet so apologies if they look a bit messy but they are strong - I always bevel the edge to be welded to get max penetration of the joint. Although you can't quite see it, I also boxed in the front body/radiator support because these always strike me as being a bit flimsy Hope this helps One final moan - having just installed new forum software, why o why o why could we not have upgraded the photo attachment file size and the number of messages in our mailboxes - talk about still working in ancient ways - rant over - it's taken yonks to resize photos, find them and then attach - about 40 mins instead of 4! Cheers Rich Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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