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Old 01-14-2017 | 06:35 PM
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I am extremely grateful for the time my father-in-law invested in helping me with this build. More specifically, he was kind enough to build the wing for me, being I was having trouble finding time to build, myself. (Very evident by how long this build ended up taking.) I told him I wanted to use larger diameter and more scale wheels than he usually uses. Unfortunately, this made the wheel wells a little larger of a diameter, and until I installed the belly pan, neither of us realized that the belly pan would now cut-into each wheel well.

It's another "make it work" moment!

I see little choice but to cut into the composite belly pan, sanding it to the contour of the inside of both wheel wells. Unfortunately, the more the belly pan's slope, as I sand further into it towards the middle of the well, the larger the gap between the bottom of the wing, and the edge of the belly pan. Now it is necessary to find something to fill this gap.

I decide to use a the sides of a Chobani yogurt container, as its diameter and contour matches the curvature of the existing wheel well almost precisely.

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