Frame rails... Options

[Jeroen]

Didn't get to work on the 914 as much as I hoped over my vacation, but still made some good progress over the last couple of days...

Frame rails in the engine comp. are stripped naked
They still need some minor detailing here and there and the "hell holes" still need to be cleaned, but most of the hard work is done

Tonight I welded the rear shock towers to the frame rails
Quite a gap to fill...

[Jeroen]

Ok, I'll try and explain best as I can...

In the pic below, the sheetmetal plate marked "A" is basically the outside of the engine bay/reartrunk firewall. With outside, I mean the part that you look at when viewing from the rear trunk.
This piece runs from inner fenderwell to inner fenderwell.

At the seam marked "B" you can see how part "A" bends inward toward the rear window.
It sorta bends over the top of the long and is spotwelded there.
These spotwelds can be seen if you remove the seamsealer around the shock tower.

At the seam marked "C" the long has a small lip (aprox 1/4") that is folded to the inside of the long. This lip is spotwelded to part "A" from the outside (shocktower side).
They must have done that before the shocktower was welded in place.

So basically, part "A" is welded in between the shocktower and the long.

The seamweld I made on top, directly welds the long to the shocktower (because I grinded part A flush there)

Hope this makes sense... If not, shoot some more questions