Pedal area repair help Options

[gisound]

Can someone point me to a thread that shows repairing the pedal box area? Finally pulled my 914 out of storage where its been for the last 10+ years to start the repairs that made me put it away all those years ago! I'm 47 now and have owned this car since I was bitten by the bug at 13! Time to get her back on the road! Still got all the other typical southern rust to take care of. Passenger long, lower firewall, rear trunk area, drivers jack post area, etc., etc, etc, This site and its members are truly inspirational and in invaluable wealth of experience and knowledge!

Thanks,

Blair

[BeatNavy]

Ok, here's the reader's digest view of my front floor pan area repair (what it looked like before and after).

Here's the PO's attempt at fiberglass repairing what was left of the pedal cluster bracket on bottom of the floor pan. You can see the mess of sticky black stuff just below the tunnel outline (driver's side below tunnel in this view, obviously). I'd say that repair was very well done (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif)



And here's what was left of the metal at the master cylinder bulkhead after I removed the "repair." There was really no metal left. Nope, no safety issues here:



I purchased the entire floor pan from Reston Design. The only problem is, it ends about where that yellow line is spray painted in the picture above. Everything forward of that had to be fabricated or repaired. Fabricating the master cylinder piece was tough for me because a) it's a complex shape, and b) I suck at this. Here it is with the new front floor pan and the master cylinder mount.



I "reconditioned" the other large complex piece of metal forward of the floor pan, and fabbed one other small piece. The large complex piece is not in great shape, but I think I reconditioned it to the point where it will work. Here's the semi-finished piece prior to welding on the pedal cluster bracket (bottom picture) which I did this weekend (but don't have a picture yet). That bracket is part of the floor pan kit from Resto Design. I think it looks slightly better than the black blob of goo that was on there before.




If you need another angle or picture, let me know. The car is still vertical and will be for a little while longer.

[malcolm2]

Does anyone know why this piece has the hole in the front? the way it mounts it becomes a little tow loop, if you are so inclined. Seems weird and I know the Germans had a reason for it.