 Fiberglass floor panels?, Recently bought a 914 and when I searched for rust on the floor I found fiberglass |
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| Mendivil26 |
 Sep 4 2018, 12:34 PM
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Hi, first time poster, since I just got my 75' 914-4 2.0 a month ago.
Car runs and drives, but is cosmetically ugly, it was originally copper, but one of the previous owners painted over the copper to make it look green, now the green paint is falling off. ANYWAY! My intention is to drive it around with spartan interiors, just the essentials, no carpets and barely any electronics to keep it simple and fewer things that can go wrong since my goal is reliability (yes, it's a daily driver). So this past weekend I started gutting the interior and removing all the carpets, expecting to find metal panels that I would look closely at for rust damage and evaluate if I they were going to need to get replaced or repaired or what.. to my surprise, I did not find metal, I found what I believe is fiberglass or some type of cardboard panel covered in resin. It looks like one of the previous owners laid up fiberglass over the metal panels, either to protect them from rust, or to cover all the rust spots that were already there.  I tried searching for info on this already to no avail, looks like it's not common practice. Has anyone else seen this done before? Should I be worried? what would you recommend as a path forward? |
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| TravisNeff |
Sep 4 2018, 12:38 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,082 Joined: 20-March 03 From: Mesa, AZ Member No.: 447 Region Association: Southwest Region 
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That is tar sheets over the sheet metal floors. that is from the factory, and your floors look good!
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| SirAndy |
Sep 4 2018, 12:55 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 42,354 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(TravisNeff @ Sep 4 2018, 11:38 AM)  That is tar sheets over the sheet metal floors. that is from the factory (IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) Sound proofing tar sheets, applied at the factory. They can crack and let water through, especially near the rear firewall which results in rust under the tar. Do a search here, there's plenty of threads on the subject ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bye1.gif) PS: (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welcome.png) |
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Posts in this topic
Mendivil26 Fiberglass floor panels? Sep 4 2018, 12:34 PM
tygaboy That looks like the factory "tar" coatin... Sep 4 2018, 12:41 PM Mendivil26 Thanks for the quick respone guys!
Now I feel ... Sep 4 2018, 01:39 PM
SirAndy I'm pretty sure that IS fiberglass on top of r... Sep 4 2018, 01:55 PM Mendivil26 DAPO's?? Sep 4 2018, 02:04 PM jcambo7
DAPO's??
Dumb Ass Previous Owner(s) Sep 4 2018, 02:06 PM 914 Ranch Fiberglass bonds to the rust but dose not stop the... Sep 5 2018, 12:00 AM DRPHIL914 what color is your car? it looks like Copper Meta... Sep 5 2018, 09:52 AM Jonathan Livesay If it is Copper and Green just call it The Bad Pen... Sep 5 2018, 10:31 AM Mikey914 Posted before, but if you want to remove use dry i... Sep 6 2018, 07:35 AM draganc Interesting approach with the dry ice and IPA.
I ... Sep 7 2018, 09:07 PM |
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