by Badsunbird » Sun Oct 21, 2007 2:37 pm
Thanks for the compliments everyone, and you are right, it was ALOT of work indeed. But all in all the rest of the car is in great shape. There isn't any rust in the "usual" places, and in my opinion the car was worth saving since the floor was the only thing that was rotted out. If I couldn't have found another floorpan I would have just fabbed up a "flat" one out of sheet metal and made my own cross bracing out of 1"x1" sqr. tubing to support it. I think if I come across another h-body in that kind of shape, that is definitely what I will do!
The reason I stitched the towers instead of welding them solid was to still allow for some amount of flex in fear of welding them solid might cause cracking or tearing of the sheet metal further down the road. I read an article awhile back stating that you should weld them in 3" increments, so that is basically what I did. I also read that filling the rocker panels with expandable foam helps in stiffing up the rigidity of the body as well, but I'm not finished researching that subject, so I'm still not sure if I'm going to do that yet or not.
Thanks Again everyone, Hopefully the rest of the project will move along a little smoother & quicker now. The floorpan is what basically has been slowing me down and holding me up from proceeding quicker than what I have.
Here are some pics. of the pass. side of the car, you can see that it really is in pretty good shape.
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Badsunbird on Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.