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less awesome now.
<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/38899/rust002.jpg"></center><p>One more day working on this side and it'll be ready. A good opportunity to weld in some thicker sheetmetal. Bumping to 14Ga is a BIG improvement in rigidity here.
The fender...
Its been suggested to get a coupe fender and slice off the flange that bolts to the unibody and weld that part to an urquattro fender. Or I could repair the urquattro fender with some sheetmetal, but I won't have those dimples. Any thoughts?
The fender...
Its been suggested to get a coupe fender and slice off the flange that bolts to the unibody and weld that part to an urquattro fender. Or I could repair the urquattro fender with some sheetmetal, but I won't have those dimples. Any thoughts?
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They're not bad at all. I have a50 cent sized hole in the flange
right at the Shock tower. The rusting has delaminated the steel so I need to cut out about 8 inches of the flange and weld in a nice rectangle of new sheetmetal and it'd be fine, but it won't have those dimpled stamped features of the originals.
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Maybe Inner fender liners too?
As far as I understand, the 4000 (probably 2wd coupe too?) plastic inner fenders can be made to work as a retrofit upgrade.
If Audi had used them in the first place, all of us with the same urq rust problem wouldn't!
If Audi had used them in the first place, all of us with the same urq rust problem wouldn't!
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yeah
that little triangle piece is welded in there for frame stiffening, but I am thinking about overwelding it at the door jamb unibody. The factory welders just seemed to spot weld it and its barely in there. I know my rally car has a bolted in brace from the strut tower back through the firewall to the cage near the dash. I don't think they did any frame stiffening from teh shock tower down to the unibody near the bottom of the door. Perhaps they thickened the gauge of the sheet metal though. It would seem like a proper way to add more strength with minimal weight.
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