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Posted by: Britain Smith Jan 19 2004, 12:07 AM

I spent the last hour or two removing all the interior and floor tar paper in an effort to lighten the car up for the rotessire. The interesting thing was that my floor boards were painted red, tar paper applied, and then had a horsehair type sound insulation over that.

For you guys with some experiences fixing the floorpan...what is the best method. I have two spots were it is bent up a bit from the bottom. I would like to even it out again, any ideas?

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Posted by: ChrisReale Jan 19 2004, 12:12 AM

Thats how they do it. They spray the entire tub and then apply the sound deadening shit. The engine compartment of my 914 had virgin beautiful metallic silver under the sound pad. Too bad the DAPOBMD (dumb ass previous owner before my dad) painted it Guards Red.....and did a shit job of repairing an accident.

Not sure, but maybe a flat hammer and dolly to ply the metel back into the right place?

Posted by: McMark Jan 19 2004, 11:44 AM

BFH!

It'll never be perfect again unless you have a month or two off to fix it.

Just hit it back close to being right and call it done.

Posted by: Britain Smith Jan 19 2004, 01:55 PM

Any tricks to use when hammering it? Special hammer or anything.

Posted by: McMark Jan 19 2004, 02:11 PM

If you wanna get technical you can get a set of dollies from harbor freight or some such discount hardware store. The dollies are just hunks of metal so when you hit the pan you don't dent it back out the other way. You can use a second hammer on the back just as well.

Posted by: Eric Taylor Jan 20 2004, 12:18 AM

Hey britain what's the status on the beast of an engine going in that thing?
Eric

Posted by: Britain Smith Jan 20 2004, 01:04 AM

I got a set of custom piston rings yesterday and some other misc. custom parts. I am now waiting for the heads to get flowed so that I can get a more optimal cam profile and then I can get going again. I am looking for a complete set of Carrera suspension, a 915 tranny with an LSD to go along with it, and a Carrera fender mount cooler and oil tank...wish me luck at Dunkels.

I will update everyone when it starts making progress again.

-Britain