Need your honest opinion
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Need your honest opinion
I will finally have some time after the exams to continue assembling the body and spent a whole long day trying to make some sense out of the front and fender alignment.
I need your opinion on what you think re panel alignment especially driver side fender to door. Can’t get is better than this. If I try to decrease the gap the door will rub and honestly I don’t know how these cars are supposed to be.
I need your opinion on what you think re panel alignment especially driver side fender to door. Can’t get is better than this. If I try to decrease the gap the door will rub and honestly I don’t know how these cars are supposed to be.
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Re: Need your honest opinion
It looks pretty good to me. Your hood to fender/front bumper gaps are nice. Probably more consistent than a lot of them left the factory. The rear of the door to quarter gaps look good too, about the only part that looks a little iffy is the front of the door to the fenders, but then that gap always look a little squirrelly with the GFX cars, and really I suppose even with the non-gfx cars because you've got to have room to open the door. As long as you have a solid 3/16-1/4" gap between the rocker and fender at the bottom, and nothing rubs, I'd say run it.
Disclaimer: Not professional body man. Not Chip Foose's sisters cousins brothers uncle. Not even looking at the manual for the exact specifications. If your eyeball says it's good, it's good!
Disclaimer: Not professional body man. Not Chip Foose's sisters cousins brothers uncle. Not even looking at the manual for the exact specifications. If your eyeball says it's good, it's good!
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Thanks Drew. Quite a positive review from you.
Will wait for what others have to say.
Will wait for what others have to say.
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I will second what Drew said , the gaps all look fine to me . On some of these cars the misalignment of the panels is "punch in the face obvious" and your car looks pretty well square on all of the gaps . Good job , and don't forget to post up some pictures of it when your done reassembling it
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Thanks for your comments. Was sort of holding back until I got some opinions. The front part is damn complex . A lot of covers clips and screws.
I have my build thread you can surely follow it up. It’s starts from the very first day till now.
I have my build thread you can surely follow it up. It’s starts from the very first day till now.
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It looks very good. Most cars and trucks will never have perfect alignment without metal work to the gaps
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Looks very good to me. Honestly, I will be happy with gaps identical to yours, once my car comes back from paint.
Great looking car, very nice!
Great looking car, very nice!
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Looks great! These cars were not perfect from day#1. We fought and fought bottom door gap and found it is a very thin line between rubbing or huge gaping eyesore.
#11
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The door gaps on these cars are huge. The door to body is close to 7/16 and door to fender is close to 3/8. And closer then that doors rub and you cant get the windows to align properly.
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You guys convinced me to accept this configuration and today I spent half day assembling the front gfx and air dam hardware (for the second time). Also removed again the driver side GFX as I wanted to heat up the plastic a bit to remove a slight bow I had on top. Hopefully this week I will continue some work on it targeting to compete the exterior by end of May and then start working on the interior.
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I'm particularly envious of your headlight door gaps, bumper cover to hood gap looks real nice too, often a gaping hole there, even on well sorted examples.
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Looks great and I especially like the headlight door gaps.
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