Body Panel Fitting Issue

[Justin Lewis]

Hi all,

I'm in the midst of fitting the infamous body panels, and I'm a bit stuck. I understand the basic premise of loosely attaching everything to facilitate making repeated adjustments but I'm puzzled by how unsymmetrical the tub appears to be.

My problem originates by how the tub fits in relation to the aft struts. It's essentially. 75 inches offset to the right indicated by the gap to the rear struts AND/OR angled in a way the tub rear stiffener is touching part of the the left strut but forward of the right strut. It just doesn't make sense and there doesn't appear to be a way to acceptably angle the entire tub or move the seat to make it it all work. I'm not looking for perfection but it's so off center that I feel like something may be wrong.

I have measured everything I can think of to check for symmetry in the air frame and panels. What I found is that the tub appears to be skewed as shown in my whiteboard photo. I don't know if this is normal or somethings wrong. I'm confident that I can make it work in the long run with a fair amount of gringing, cutting and refiberglassing but it just seems unusual to have to do that much alteration.

I'm providing a few pictures and hopefully someone can give me a little advice here.

Thanks