How do you do your gaps and alignment?

[DOOM]

Originally Posted by elitecustombody

Butchering may be a bit too strong,but it's definitely not proper way.

as I said in the post above, there is no way cars were made that bad,to where there is no adjustment and welding a rod or cutting panel open to add more sheetmetal are the only solutions, it's the cheater's way out ,instead of finding the cause of poor fitment,they resort to quick fix,I'm sure alot of shops/guys won't and don't like what I'm saying,but it's true and it doesn't sit quite well with some of them

obviously that there are many cheap aftermarket sheetmetal parts being used on these cars and that's probably the reason why the parts just don't fit right in the first place, many cars have been in few or more fender-benders in it's 40+ years of existence,many were severly avbused,raced ,e.t.c.,putting alot of stress and causing the body/chassis to twist and buckle, those areas must be found and straightened first before trying to do the rod-welding custom gaps.

I will say, if one is looking for 1/8th inch perfect gaps,then yes, adding material to edges of panels in only few places would be the only way,it it may sound contradicting,but it would be few areas alot less prone to corrosion.Unless you're building one off custom car from scratch,those coachwork metal guys don't use rods to finalize their gaps,it takes true craftsman with alot patience.

Thanx Stefan!
I totally understand where your coming from! Like I said I'm just tring to learn..

[68protouring454]

lol. I guess elite is better then me, and all the top shops in the country,dse,troys,kd's,etc. he must know more then all of us on how to align panels.
I am done, if you want advice widow, pm me anytime.
btw- i guess you have not looked at many original camaros, they were far from perfect, its common knowledge that alot of them were 1/2 inch out of square depending on where measured.
jake