Hell Hole Repair made easy, Well, easier anyway. Options

[skline]

Ok, Today at sklines garage we explore repairing the hell hole in a slightly rusty car. As some of you know, Mark Bland (Engman) has been working on a new Hell Hole repair kit. This is my redition of removing the rust and installing this kit. My first step is to remove the battery tray and support. I did so with my trusty $5.00 air chisel. The next step in to clean the area as good as you can and remove as much loose rust and get down to a point that you can weld. Next I will be fitting the kit into place for fittment. I will be posting pictures as I go. I just started and at this point, I have removed the battery tray and cleaned the hole out. Now I am going to fit the kit into place to see how it fits. Aaron has beent he photographer so dont blame me for bad pictures. If I have any question about it I will take some also. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif) Off to work now, I will post the pictures later.

[Engman]

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how are you going to address the chanel for the engine seal on the shelve scott?

Some info on this is in order...

The kit has 4 pieces
1. engine shelf cover - 20g
2. lower font firewall piece - 20g
3. inner wheel house piece - above the long - 20g
4. Top of long - 16g

The idea behind it is to make affordable an alternative to the more expensive (and nicer) replacement panels. You do have to form them either as Scott is doing along with using a vice to put the 90 degree bends into some pieces (all are 20g pieces that get the 90 degree bends).

It is a kit that you will need to make fit correctly for your application - meaning you will/may have to trim some pieces to fit more better (insert smart ass remark here).

The basis for this kit wasTekkor Thread

While this was used as the basis several changes were made to make this fit. The engine shelf has the cutouts for the fuel lines and drain tubes, several pieces were made larger in certain areas to better minic the area I have seen rusted.

Now its a kit - you put the forms in, you trim to fit. These are not drop in pieces - you do have to work them a little to make them fit. If you want drop in pieces - get the RD pieces - these are nice - but you will drop some coin on them.

Later I will post info in the resources section -

M