The Disuster
Tonight I began on the drivers floor. the worst spot on the entire car. I started with my wire cup on it, which revealed A LOT more swiss cheese than I thought was there. Fortunately, besides for a couple of small areas, the rear and the passenger side are both solid!
So in order to keep some of the original shape and also make it easier for myself, I sectioned off the area by finding which areas could be reused, and then I will essentially just fill in the areas which were rusted out instead of replacing the whole area. It looks like the sections that are above the unibody rails are still strong enough that I kept them there. I cut out most of the flat area and also some of the more simple rounded sections that will be easy to recreate. the toughest area will be behind the pedals, where the firewall flange mates up to the floor flange.. I will have to find a way to recreate this flange and then put a couple of minor bends in it so it matches up with what was there. In the end, I dont mind if you can see the patches, but I dont want this to look like someone just threw metal at a bunch of holes - I will try to keep all the steel flush with the old floor... butt joint welds instead of lap joints that is... fun!
before I started cutting, I determined this car will only be valuable as a driver... so I'd like to make as clean of a driver as possible.
before moving on, I need to do something about inside the unibody rails. Is there something I can spray inside there? a rust converter? what is everyone's recommendation?
thanks for watching! stay tuned!
Tonight I began on the drivers floor. the worst spot on the entire car. I started with my wire cup on it, which revealed A LOT more swiss cheese than I thought was there. Fortunately, besides for a couple of small areas, the rear and the passenger side are both solid!
So in order to keep some of the original shape and also make it easier for myself, I sectioned off the area by finding which areas could be reused, and then I will essentially just fill in the areas which were rusted out instead of replacing the whole area. It looks like the sections that are above the unibody rails are still strong enough that I kept them there. I cut out most of the flat area and also some of the more simple rounded sections that will be easy to recreate. the toughest area will be behind the pedals, where the firewall flange mates up to the floor flange.. I will have to find a way to recreate this flange and then put a couple of minor bends in it so it matches up with what was there. In the end, I dont mind if you can see the patches, but I dont want this to look like someone just threw metal at a bunch of holes - I will try to keep all the steel flush with the old floor... butt joint welds instead of lap joints that is... fun!
before I started cutting, I determined this car will only be valuable as a driver... so I'd like to make as clean of a driver as possible.
before moving on, I need to do something about inside the unibody rails. Is there something I can spray inside there? a rust converter? what is everyone's recommendation?
thanks for watching! stay tuned!
