[esahlin]

Sweet job on scoring the NOS outer wheel wells.....Where did you find them so quick?? Amazingly, I can see from your pics that the stamping of the NOS is different than the Taiwan one.

Another suggestion before you weld on your quarter.....see the "hinge support" area for your trunk lid? See how that whole trunk lid hinge support mess there is kinda rusty......well now that you have decent access to it with the quarter and outer wheel well off and the tail panel......I would remove the rust there and Picklex it and epoxy prime it (if you have the spray gun etc). I spent alot of agonizing painful time laying in my trunk area trying to wire wheel the rusty trunk lid hinge and support pieces with both quarters already on the car. I just didnt have good access and did a poor job.

Also think about wire wheeling and treating the rust on the bottom of the package tray area....if you were laying in the trunk and stuck your head under the package tray area and looked up.....all that rust there. With the tail panel off and the quarters off it might be a good idea to get at all the rusty areas in the trunk treated/sanded/wire wheeled etc. No tail panel on the car makes it more comfortable to lay down in the trunk if needed.

Also, When you weld on the new outer wheel house to the inner ....there will be a gap there that is exposed inside the wheel well right above where the tire would be. You might want to consider using a good 1K or 2K seam sealer to fill that seam between the outer and inner. Most of the good seam sealers (not the brushable ones) can be applied over primed metal and can be painted over. I used the Fusor 800 1K sealer that can be used in a standard caulking gun.