Clean up of surrounding metal.

Found the bastards

Cut a nice clean patch and

Cleaned up, I’ll put the seat hinge/mount back after the lower firewall and longitudinal are in fixed positions.

Overall floor pic. I’ll get some primer on this tomorrow.

Couldn’t resist a test a test fit of Restoration Designs
Outer long chassis plate. Fits beautifully. Can’t wait till it’s actually welded to the
chassis! Thanks for lookin in.

Great to see the progress! I think it's safe to say that there a lot of us here who find this thread extremely interesting, motivating, and educational.

Still wasn’t satisfied with that patch, went back at it.
Cleaned it up again finding more pinholes. I’m more pleased
this round. It’s solid again. I’m finding a balance between the welding and cleaning up with the grinder. I have been taking away too much parent metal, thinning it and creating my pinholes. It’s all up to experience I guess. As I’m sure all you experienced metal workers can attest. And we have a lot of skilled peeps on this forum I’m in awe of. I’ll hit the bottom with primer, paint and undercoating as usual.
Ok here’s the pics:

Final

Lookin' good! I think the grinding is as tricky as the welding. I tended to have the opposite problem of leaving too much meat on the bone.

Your going back in the garage again?!?!

Well yes. Tackled the engine shelf debacle.
Couple of holes welded,hit it with primer till the rest of this left side
is finished.

Left engine shelf

Primer

Primer and paint of left floor patch near seat mount

Exterior of floor area in question. Primer & Paint. I’ll undercoat it when all is wrapped up
on the chassis repairs.

Getting some fresh air.... while paints dry.
View of neighbors and some Christmas lites.

Some surface rust lurking under the engine shelf.
I honestly don’t think it was hit with paint under here or very minimalistic amounts.
Looks just primer on engine rubber seal channel area.
Just sprayed some rust converter for now on the underside
of shelf. All this will be sanded again when the suspension console goes in.

Rust converter spray coating

Definitely needs a freshening...

Dion hard at work removing a sketchy patch. Click to view attachment

Dion -
I'll say it again: I am always amazed (and a little intimidated!) when I see how far you're going with your car. So cool to see.
You're giving me confidence to go after some of the panel repairs I need to make on mine.
Keep up the awesome work and pics.
(and get that suspension console on there!!! )

Safe and Happy New Year to you and yours.
Chris

@dion looks great.. Keep up the good work.. By the time your done you will be amazed at how your skills have improved and probably want to do another one..

Thanks Chris & Ben. It’s always nice to hear your encouragement.
Ben... not so sure about another resto..

With Dave’s mold making & fabricating skills we started on
the longitudinal. Fantastic work on the outer floor flange and radius.

The steel was screwed onto a buck Dave had made for his 914 repair.

Securing to buck

Then the heating with the torch took place to coax that steel into shape.
“ Fire, fire ,yeah ,yeah”

A nice blue-white flame and cherry coloured steel....

Then the bending and hammering took place and clamped down into position.

Then the vertically challenged one (me). Secured the bent piece down to the buck.

So we have a portion of this rear kick-up piece beginning to take shape!
This is all very cool and exciting. Enjoying this journey.

Kick up

The wide portion is the “floor” of the kickup yet to be pie cut and wrapped around the buck.

Essentially will be oriented like this when welded to chassis . To be continued....

Wow that is looking great

why hasn't any vendors made this piece ??....

NICE fab work! Love the pics of you two wizards at work.

Wood and Flame and Force
A needed part from raw steel
Nine fourteen Rebirth

Great fab work, impressive!

WTG guys!

Ok time for an update. Been doing a lot of odds & ends.
If your following this thread you know I’m not the metal master. So while Dave is
addressing some issues on his car and the weather is crap here, not as bad as
Brent’s but PITA regardless. I’m tackling some items.
Obtained a bloody great 60’s compressor for future chores, fellow member Howard Hinsdale told me about it. Thanks Howard!
Unfortunately it needs a new tank, found a previous welded patch on the bottom. So no go!
I did find another tank so it’s another project to do. I removed the motor and pump.
Should be a fun project getting it back up to snuff.

Motor & pump

Started prepping drivers door. A cleanup & primer on the jamb portion.

Living dangerously. Removed the trunk hinges for a makeover.
In there place... a chunk of wood, grooved to contain that
bone crusher of torsion rod. No the tie-wrap isn’t doing anything.
I had it there to hold the wood in place before i released the rod ends.

Cleaned up and painted the trunk supports ....and added that racer look.
So I can pretend I’m piloting down the Mulsanne.

Another project was what to do with the front valance.
I’m not running a front cooler set up with this six.
Everyone is making cut out style valances.
So I dug out my original and and coaxed out the edges a little with
pie cuts and added some flared edges to get as close as possible to the fender flare dimensions.

The pie cuts.... toyed with the idea of adding canards like a 906 but
didn’t want to be Batman like and take out peeps legs.

Adding some metal for rear edge of valance and to build up
the flare.

“aluminum mud” for the shaping. Still need to sand,prep & primer,paint but the weather is not allowing that currently.

Edges. Still need some fine tuning.
You get the idea.

Some how , all this needs to go back on the car!!
Eventually