Re: reshelling restoration
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:11 am
Hope I haven't caused any confusion, etc.!!
The factory originals are (presumably) the model for the SJ Sportscars stainless version, which you can see here, freshly unboxed in my shop last fall . . .
You can clearly see they are dead straight, including the lower flange edge. (Worth noting that the factory sill member, in original red oxide primer, is heavier gauge metal than the SJ version, and the box section proper is still very solid, though the lower flange is clearly totally missing; the 3 inner plates bolted through to the sill member were nonetheless keeping the car straight and pretty solid.)
Now here is my car's "rocker panel", as we call them over here, with the new sill member installed, and with its flange trimmed along its lower edge to what can be seen as the curve of the fiberglass flange . . .
Hope that clears things up. Straight sill member, straight lower door aperture/jam, curved bottom of rocker panel and curved lower edge of fiberglass flange. Interestingly, the fiberglass cabin floor tub is straight, so there is a difference at front and back between the level of the outer fiberglass flange edge and the bottom of the floor tub. This straight floor tub is what makes it such an ideal place to fix beams to when putting the shell on a rotisserie or dolly.
HTH . . .
Regards,
Randy
The factory originals are (presumably) the model for the SJ Sportscars stainless version, which you can see here, freshly unboxed in my shop last fall . . .
You can clearly see they are dead straight, including the lower flange edge. (Worth noting that the factory sill member, in original red oxide primer, is heavier gauge metal than the SJ version, and the box section proper is still very solid, though the lower flange is clearly totally missing; the 3 inner plates bolted through to the sill member were nonetheless keeping the car straight and pretty solid.)
Now here is my car's "rocker panel", as we call them over here, with the new sill member installed, and with its flange trimmed along its lower edge to what can be seen as the curve of the fiberglass flange . . .
Hope that clears things up. Straight sill member, straight lower door aperture/jam, curved bottom of rocker panel and curved lower edge of fiberglass flange. Interestingly, the fiberglass cabin floor tub is straight, so there is a difference at front and back between the level of the outer fiberglass flange edge and the bottom of the floor tub. This straight floor tub is what makes it such an ideal place to fix beams to when putting the shell on a rotisserie or dolly.
HTH . . .
Regards,
Randy