Upper control arm mounts/shock tower
With everything sitting to my measurements my inner fender is about an inch to high. Do you remember having to get rid of the factory rest inside the frame to get it to sit low enough in the rail?
My uca mounts were rotted, as well as the 'bathtub' in between them.
I call the top section of the frame that holds all of the debris and water the 'bathtub.'
That replacement piece includes the entire top of the frame rail, bathtub, which I needed to replace.
If I did not have to replace the top of the frame rail, I don't know if I would cut that off the new piece or out of the rail.
I'm leaning towards leaving the new piece intact and removing material from the frame.
Those parts were way better than I expected, and appeared to be orientated correctly, possibly why they include the top of the frame rail.
I think removing everything from the new piece may bring more issues trying to install it, but I could be wrong.
Inner fender is an inch too high how/where?
Is it still on the car?
Iirc, my inner fenders did not match up perfectly with the shock mount, but on these a-bodies the shock mount is integral to the uca mounts and frame, not the inner fender.
There were spot welds, do not recall how many, holding the inner fender to the shock tower, but it wasn't full on welded to it, like the b-bodies.
I know unmolested cars that when you look at the shock sticking through the inner fender it does not look centered exactly.