Impreza Group-N project.

[Aram]

It's been a while since my last update, and with good reason, I didn't feel like it, in the last few postst you will see why.

I found out the history of my chassis, which is not as good as I was told.
It seems that the small damage in front and rear was actually more something like a megacrash.
It has been rolled etc. in 2000 somewhere.

I now know the whole route it has been on since 2000 untill it came in my possesion, which is nice to know, although the guy has not been very honest about it as it seems.
Ohh well....

I have found 2 pictures of the car when it was still in anger on the stages in europe:





A friend of mine who owns his own wheel shop was going to drop by with some stuff to determine the offset that is best for my new wide fenders, the official S5 WRC car uses +12 which I think is best for mine aswel.

So I wanted to mount all fenders, lights and bumpers to see the endresult, a 15 minute job normaly, it took me 2 weeks....

To cut thing short, the right front inner wing is 5mm to short, the last 2 holes on top of the fender are not in line, the ones near the headlights I mean.

And the 2 innerwings are 10mm to close to each other, which means the hood won't close etc.

I know this by cross measurig the chassis with my old red chassis.

So I decided to do some panelwork on my car, which is a first for me.
The headlight panel was to high and to far back so that was going to be replaced, solving 2 problems.
First the panel was welded a bit to high on the inner wing and I could weld the panel 5mm forward so the fender would fit.
The 10mm sortage in the width I'd solve by makes sleeveholes for the fenders, moving them outwards, noone would see it afterwards.

Here I fixed the panels and headlight, the fender is not attached to the innerwing here:



Let's do it:





Drilling the welds:



Face off:





Same with the GL:





Old and even older but in better shape:



Fitting:



Fitting all parts for positioning the panel before welding it: