Firewall / Frame Torque Boxes

[paul.m]

Wow , theres one thing for sure , your welding and fabricating skills will be greatly expanded ! , along with vocabulary of expletives !

 

[DysonSS]

If you are going to repair that I suggest you find a good donor car that you can use half the firewall and the floors, I also suggest you get a rotissary cause it is no fun welding on your back. Personally I would find another car and keep the front clip and quarter panels

I picked a better shell yesterday I just got it in my garage I’ll post some pictures in a little bit

 

[ssn696]

Wow. Taking action!

 

[DysonSS]

 

[DysonSS]

Not perfect but a lot better than what I started with. The rust on the front floors is surface and they are still solid. The rear pans are tender and I will cut them out of the blue car. Surprisingly they are rust free considering the shape of the rest of the car. It needs a drivers rear body mount support. All the trunk metal is solid as well as the rear seat body mount support, and inner rockers are mint.

 

[msd099]

Not perfect but a lot better than what I started with. The rust on the front floors is surface and they are still solid. The rear pans are tender and I will cut them out of the blue car. Surprisingly they are rust free considering the shape of the rest of the car. It needs a drivers rear body mount support. All the trunk metal is solid as well as the rear seat body mount support, and inner rockers are mint.

Looks better than the first car you were showing. On mine, I got out to the garage today and started scraping rust and it's not as bad as I originally thought. Looks like the first layer of metal is shot but the underlayer is solid. Guess I'll cut the top layer of rust and just add a patch to make it as thick as original.

 

[DysonSS]

That shouldn’t be to bad to patch. A little trimming and weld in a new piece. I think 14 gauge steel is what was used from the factory. Don’t quote me on that because I’m not 100% sure.