Fitting side panels

Today I started to fit the side panels.  To begin I started with the aluminium trims which I clamped in position and drilled through to the chassis, where I then enlarged the hole in the chassis to 7mm for an M5 rivnut.  I plan to use stainless rivnuts and bolts where they may get wet.

Aluminium clamped for drilling

Rivnuts installed to chassis

Trim complete

I tried to fix the rivnuts at  approximately 300mm centres for holding the side panels, with fixings being installed on the top, bottom and side near the rear arch.

Last job for the day was to drill and fix rivnuts in the scuttle for the fibreglass bulkhead to fix to.