These are the panels below the A-column.
They have a lot of holes and I can't imagine that I will use all of them. So, new panels must be made.
Checking their fitment
The next task is the front leaf spring. Since the car will be fitted with the heavier Ford 2.6 Zephyr engine the front leaf spring must be strengthened.
The original leaf spring:
I bought a leaf spring made for the 2.6 engine but the quality is quite poor.
Some of the leafs are of unequal length, i.e. the length from the middle (measured from the hole in the middle) to the left is different from the length to the right. I think this is not good if you want a symmetric springing behaviour. The difference is 1 cm.
But the worst is that the lowest leaf containing the bush is wider than the original spring. This leads to positive camber.
The original spring:
the new one:
So, my plan is to use the old leaf spring and combine it with two leafs of the new leaf spring. Building the correct leaf spring is only possible when the car is finished. I don't want to have this look for the Aceca: