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One of these days I'll post more pics. What a hell hole. Short summary is it's now stronger than new, but still needs some finishing up when I drop the engine.

It's a daily driver, so this has been an engine-in project. I put a reinforcement/scab plate at the rear shock tower to brace the factory gap between the end of the frame rail and shock tower, and have a good base to weld a tube to. Tube runs from there to the middle of the longs. One piece, right through the firewall, to a long scab plate on top of long next to front of passenger seat. It doesn't interfere with getting in and out of the car and makes an extremely strong triangle. The front scab plate wraps down the inside of the long and is long enough forward to cover the forces transferred up there by the tube.

So with that done to stabilize things, it's just a matter of cutting out rot and welding in new sheet metal. I've just been forming the sheet metal myself. I don't care about making it look factory, only about making it strong.

Everything gets painted with Hammerite Rustcap to prevent future rust. The battery is in a box in the trunk.


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