One of the video blogs I watch said "the project you have to do before you get to the project you want to do". This is one of those. To finish up on my Miata suspension project I needed to fix the rust in the wheel wells. Had been putting that on the back burner when doing rust repair but now it had to be done.
Cut out the inner wheel well where there was rust between it and the doubler on the outside. There was zero primer or rust protection on the metal between the two. Luckily most of the outer doubler was in good shape but did have to cut off a bit and weld on a new section. Wire wheel and some paint on the doubler. Then weld on some new patches made from some sheet metal from a GT6 parts car. Keeping it Triumph original :-)
Some keen observers will notice the opening has been cut out larger to accommodate the Miata control arms. At this point I already had the suspension bits fitted for location but removed to fix this rust before I start welding it all together. Using the huge hole in the floor for access repairing the rust did make things a bit more comfortable.
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