With TTI and Dougs headers, there is no need to cut the fender aprons for headers. Even the old CPPA headers fit without cutting. Guys that cut these Grand Canyon holes nowadays are just lazy hacks.
Patch, or Replace inner fenders?
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TTI was not in business decades ago. Yep racers are not always neat either. Personally I would use original metal if available for sure, second choice or maybe first choice UNLESS it is a car that will be worth some $ or cherished like grandma, is do a god job of patching, there will ne undercoat on the underside, like factory, and not hard to do a good job of welding, grinding, a skim coat of filler. But I get in a hurry to drive and not spend decades getting there.
383FormulaS67
Bob
Body man is coming over this morning. I've finally removed my front clip. ready to remove the inner fenders. How do you reccommend removing all the spot welds? Also, to install the new: inner fender cowl to brackets, Did you plug weld them to the firewall? Thanks, a lot!
The metal was spot welded by factory, so the true resto way is duplicate that with plug welds. Buying thee best spot weld cutter available is usually the best route.
Daves69
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FWIW, For a pair of inner fenders I bought two 5 buck HF double sided plug cutters (hole cutter). They do like to walk without a center in the weld to keep them in line. Night and day difference using cutting fluid as well. I went through both sides of one cutter and started on the second removing the two inner fenders. A quality cutter will cut your time/effort IMO.
I ended up splitting my drivers inner fender and splicing it back together, I needed the whole inner fender.
I would use the AMD drivers inner fender for patches for the cut one on the op’s car.
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