Body fitup questions

[oldguy668]

A couple of things I need to clear up in my 68-year-old cobweb of a brain.

Here's a pic of the trunk opening. It looks like there's an extra lip that maybe FFR forgot to tell the robot to trim. Shall I cut off the entire lip at the orange line or leave a little by cutting at the silver line, which is basically in the radius?

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The hood has a vertical flange all around the opening, but right where the opening crosses the driver footbox, there's a cutout that looks like it should provide clearance for the footbox top. It's a little out of position. Do I just extend the relief or cut the entire perimeter to make it uniform?

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[Jeff Kleiner]

Joe,
I'm not sure where you're at in the trunk lip photo. Is this where the rear cowl behind the cockpit meets the front edge of the trunklid? I know your body is kind of unique (the car body; I'm not even going to begin to discuss YOUR body) but this is nothing at all like the Mk3 or 4 roadsters. As you know those turn down vertically from the cowl surface then back to horizontal and that's the lip that the trunk seal slides over. Yours seems to have an extra vertical and horizontal???

Yes, they have been relieving the vertical edge of the engine compartment lip over the footbox for the past couple of years (earlier Mk4s were not cut back). looks like yours might need to come a little farther forward to avoid contact with the footbox aluminum. A DA with a 60 or 80 disk will knock it down in no time.

Jeff

[Erik W. Treves]

mine doesn't have that extra lip in the trunk

[oldguy668]

I'll take a wider angle shot tomorrow. Thanks

[Jeff Kleiner]

Here's the roadster trunk opening flange:

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj43/jkleiner/Fred%20J/100_5331.jpg

Jeff