Engine Bay Plates

We've been busy working on the engine bay. Tidying up the firewall and the holes were the starter cable and wiring loom come through the body.

We've also been putting in the Battery Tray and the engine bay side plates:

Here you can see the battery tray and engine bay side plate welded into position:

Don't worry - we cut off the rear corner once we had checked the radius angle and curve on the battery tray.

The LHS engine bay side plate now in position. Here's something to check out: Notice on the inner side of the rear wheel arch - the ribbed fingers protrude 'outwards' into the engine bay..... well now look on the first photo above - the same fingers protrude in the same direction, but into the wheel arch - therefore VW used the same panel for both sides and just modified the top of the LHS one to accommodate the fuel tank.

Here you can see the Battery tray from the underneath. There is still more work to tidy up the welds here.

The LHS engine bay side pate from the underneath - the captive nut was taken off the original panel and re-welded onto the new piece.

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