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Good idea but I can't really raise the fender at the cowl any higher. The 
fender bolt to firewall is maxed out at the bottom of the bolt hole in the 
fender. I might be able to cram a 1/16" shim in there but no way a 1/8" would 
fit. I would have to ream out the hole in the fender to make that happen. Also, 
might end up having trouble with the door jamb fender bolt. 

 

Does anyone have a thickness measurement on their stock rad support bushing?

 

Thanks,

Sheen


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> My car and the few I've paid attention to had some amount of shims to raise 
> the cowl panel to match the fender.  You could try aligning the fender and 
> door without respect to the cowl and then shim the cowl to match.  If we 
> consider your gap being large at the bottom of the door and so small at the 
> top, raising the fender and door together will narrow the gap at the bottom 
> and open the gap at the top.  My car had between 3/8" and 1/2" of shims 
> setting the fender higher up.  I wish now that I had measured/tagged and 
> bagged them.  It does seem that either the rear of the fender is too low, or 
> the front it too high.  Did you install stock subframe bushings or aluminum 
> bushings?  
> 
> Larry  
>

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