Questions about parts on 65 project

[Richspec]

I've got a mk1 shell that we're doing up as a bitsa road/rally car, you know - using the bits hogging shelf and floor space from previous car and projects, so not period correct in many senses.
However i want it looking ok, so buying various mk1 bits to get it 'there or thereabouts'.
I'm a bit confused on several things.

The front subby is hydro converted to dry - should it have a rubber spacer between the top of the subframe and the bulkhead like my dry '63 has? I dont see them pictured in the exploded parts diagrams i've seen, and all the rubber spacers i can see are the later type.

I've read that in 64/65? the floor starter was discontinued and the cooper style starter was used - is this just a more conventional three? position switch in the dash.

oh - and also is there such a thing as cover panels for the inner sills? the shell looks odd in this area to me. The seatbelt mounting is in the rearward panel (the original inner sill??) with a large hole in this 'front' panel, also it sits on top of the edge of the companion box as it comes down the edge of the door.

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Rich

[Richspec]

to answer my own question its a metal spacer that goes between subframe and body

Next question though, are the early piano hinge opening rear quarter windows the same size as later mk4 ish ones, I realise the mounting holes in the shell dont line up but are they supposed to be a different size?

[InimiaD]

The wet subframes didn't have spacers fitted, only dry uns. (height of the tower)
The rear quarter windows of MK3 onwards will not fit into a MK1 / 2 shell.
Not quite sure about the inner sills, but it sounds as if a replacement inner sill has been welded over the original.

[Richspec]

thanks, just confirming what i found this weekend then, thank god for that! I was worried that the rear window openings were just the wrong size on the shell. a slight relief
In regard to the sills I've found that it was 'just' a badly fitted inner sill and multiple patching in the area of the companion bins, which i removed anyway.

So for my first bit of bodywork ever I'm replacing the back half of the inner sill, the section in front of the wheelarch, the closing panel, and a section of rear quarter
And all I thought i needed to do was chop out the bins..