CSL Rear Arch Cover Position

[CSLRich]

Hi, as part of the ongoing restoration of "Red Dragon" (named by my kids after Will Ferrell's Camaro in movie "Old School"), I've had a pair of rear arch repair panels let in.

As you can see from the pics, I'm still at the primer stage but a trial fit of the wheelarch spats shows 10-15mm of exposed wheelarach lip. ie the covers don't cover the inside edge as much as I expected.

When I compare to the fronts, which are original (or certainly pre-'85), the covers comletely cover the inner lip. The difference seems to be that the fronts have a lip of about 15mm wheras the rears its about 30mm.

Now I can tweak the covers a little, or grind off some of the rear lip but before I do that I'd welcome comments from anyone who's experienced similar. Anyone got any photos of how much coverage they're getting ?



Thanks, Rich

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[30csl]

My car is pretty similar - when you attach the wheelarch you should push it inwards with a fair bit of force - i.e. it will cover more of the wheelarch return lip than it is by just being taped up. Yes the fronts get covered completely also.


Where are you based?

Regards,

Rohan

 

[CSLRich]

Thanks Rohan, I'm just outside Bristol, near where M4 and M5 meet.

Even with a fair bit of force I still have significant underlap (is that a word ?). I can get pretty good alignment at front and trailing edges, but from about 10 O'Clock thru to about 2 O'Clock positions I still have a decent strip of wheelarch lip showing.

It may be completely normal, or may be a result of repair panels being wrogn dimensions. But interested in other members cars in case a little "persuasion" is required to get them to line up as per the fronts...

Rich