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Old December 9th 2005, 10:02
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You can put it at any angle you want to if you scribe it. That one is the a lower angle as the RS but the Beetles lines and the 911RS lines are very different. The "glass on lip" of the EMPI tail doesn't lay on a late model decklid very well so we cut it off. Then got the angle and contact lines close buy eye. Then took a divider (pointed compas), set it to the largest gap and scribed the tail by following the lines of the decklid. Sand the tail to the scribe mark and fine tune it until it sits on the decklid with no gaps and looks like a factory fit. Wax the decklid (do not remove the wax) for a parting agent and build a lip on the inside with cloth and resin (I did this thru the 5x18 inch opening I cut for the intake grill) while the tail is held on with duct tape straps. When it is cured, remove the tape straps, pop the tail off. Clean up and trim the lip you just made. Cut the decklid for the intake air to get to the engine bay. Bond the tail to the decklid with a bonding glue called "Fusion" (made for boding fiberglass to steel) and a few countersank rivits from the inside. Final prep and paint. Weld up a grill that will fit the opening from 1/8x3/4 stock then tack a heavy screen to the back side of the grill. Form the grill to fit the curve of the tail so it will not pull and crack the tail.
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