Hi Stan, In this case I used floor pans I ordered from England. At times they have sent me NOS floors. But when they don't, the original style unit they do send are excellent. Nothing wrong wolf steel, I use there stuff all the time. It's just a matter of what is convenient for me at the time.
Hi Alfaman, Floors aren't all that difficult to do, just think carefully before you cut, how you plan on installing the pans. It's very easy to over cut the metal and you'll have a gap to deal with. As for epoxy.... I have no ill thoughts on the subject, I just wouldn't use it in a area that is structural (like the floor) on a 40 year old car. Metal is predictable on how it will act in a accident. I don't know how it will act if it's epoxied. I have comfort in the strength of a weld in these cases. ICAR is a national group that body shops are in effect measured by. ICAR has tons of data on all sorts of products, to include epoxies. A great deal of cars are built or rebuilt using special epoxies. But this is following the cars manufacture guide line. This is how cars are tested and designed. But cars were not built 40 years ago using this stuff. So it would be unpredictable as to how a car would hold up using it.... just my thoughts.
Okay, Charlie did some good work on this today. He was very careful as to preserve the seam inside the tire well. Why? well this is an area that a collector will look to see if the car was compromised.
Once the pan was out, he injected cavity wax in the frame rail. Simply because there would be no better time to. No, the car was never injected from the factory, but we want it on the road for many more years, so why not do the little things to spare it from rust.
Once you trim the replacement pan, it should sit on the center rail flash as you can see here.
Now it's time to start welding. We punched out where we plan to weld about every 3/4 of an inch. Why? Well the factory spot welded about the same gap. And we want predictability (in case of an accident). The center rail was spaced wider because we used a larger plug weld.
we won't be getting back on this car until Thursday. So I'll update it then.
thanks for looking!
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My dad took it off the floor panels of his GTV and it made it a lot lighter.
