while the floors are out, what did you do while you had the floors out? Options

[rufio0205]

so the floors came out of my '73 2.0 today. i took out the pedal cluster, the gauges in the center console, and the master cylinder came out as well.... now the question is...would it be better to get a 914/6 master cylinder, rebuild mine, or do a big brake up grade - to the 911 calipers and what not.

what did you guys do to make the cockpit a little nicer?
any suggestions?
what would you change about the cockpit?

[Richard Casto]

I am doing something like this, but my floor is not as bad. In fact the problem areas I am dealing with are the intersection of the floor and passenger longitudinal as well as the rear bulkhead on the passenger side.

It looks like you have little if nothing to weld to on the center tunnel, box section that travels left to right as well where the longitudinals meet the floor. If it was me I would...

1. Get the car up on some good jackstands so you can work under the car. The engine lift/strap scares me.
2. Drill out any remaining spotwelds (such as near the rear bulkhead) to completely surgically remove the entire floor
3. Media blast and rust treat the entire area.
4. Have your guy fabricate lower sections for the tunnel, lower longitudinal, etc. so that you can have something to weld the floor to. This is to replace the stuff you cut out when you removed the floor itself. It would also be interesting to see how health the bottom of each longitudinal is.
5. Buy a complete repro floor vs. trying to fabricate a replacement.