I’ve been contemplating whether to full seam weld or stitch weld the car, to full seam weld the car I would weld between the welds that I had already been done to form a seam weld. Weighing up the benefits of doing this as far as I can tell from reading forums and talking to other people, the main benefit of welding up the seams is to make the car stronger not so much stiffen the car, although I’m sure it has some affect on stiffening the car up. To stiffen up the car a well constructed roll cage, and adding stiffening plates in the correct area's of the car would be the best option. The end result of this is that I will be stitch welding up as much of the car as I can and work towards stiffening the car at key points.
Over the weekend I moved from the boot area into the cabin which I got about 75% done. While most of the seams where tight some of the seams had large gaps between the panels, from 3 to 5mm in some cases filled with filler and spot welded, with these seams it was easy to remove the filler and a few taps from the hammer to bring the panels together followed by a tack weld worked the best before stitch welding the seam.
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