It looks to be the best way to keep my part post to a minimum.Got the Car on June 12th 2005 for free.Well $60 for towing....Didnt run no keys and rotted longs.Well today she now runs....Yippie.....Replaced the points, condesor, battery and replaced 1 bad piece of fuel line and threw in some Tolulene for a Fuel additive with new gas...914 Idles at 800rpms a little rich...Oh and bought a drivers window to replace the shattered missing one...Not bad.. clutch and brakes seem ok everything works....I cant wait...Its all good after this.......



Thanks for everyones support............

Keep up the good work!
I can't wait to see how you handle the rust repair.

WooHoo!

Now you can take off the nerf bar and the tow cable!

God I hate those things...

How bad are the longs?

The longs are sawzawed off about 5-10 years ago so they look worse then they are...Still not good though..At least the lower/underbelly metal is straight cut and solid...............Does anyone sell the outer cover panel/exterior face for the longs or is that what they call the outers...Looks to me like there are three panels there..??Thanks

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Thanks I found this too.

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Looks like your car is missing the rockers which are a steel panel that covers the longs. You can get these new or in fiberglass.

Would these work.......?



And these?

Read through THIS and you'll get a very good idea of what and how to repair your car.

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Read through THIS and you'll get a very good idea of what and how to repair your car.

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Would these work.......?

In the first picture, the part goes over the existing longs. It is a reinforcement piece. It is not a rust repair piece.

the second picture is what you will need, but it only repairs back to the jack post location.

Is there another post or site out there that shows another way to rebuild these...I personally dont believe I will ever want to restore the car..But I do want to keep it a orininal sleeper look....But racing it will be more likeley...I looked at the cost for the replacement panels and then the cost to stiffen it up.$1200..Alittle to steep and I still havent touched anything else......I was thinking on the lines of 1x3 square tube and build in new supports where the longs were.$500..Just a thought.....

pls don't take this the wrong way - but iif $1200 to prepare the tub for "racing" is too steep, you may not be ready for "racing." almost certainly the car isn't.

tech inspectors take a dim view of cobbled structural patching.

you will be money and effort ahead to sell your tub and get a sound replacement.

Way to go rocco, I think Brad did a post about stiffening for racing, find it in the classic threads.

I don't know much about racing but I hear the most expensive aspect is converting your engine to burn money instead of gas.

You may want to look into a Brad Meyer kit. The kit repairs rusted longs. I don't know that much about them, but it's another option. ( BTW different Brad then noted above)

QUOTE (ArtechnikA @ Jun 24 2005, 03:21 AM)

pls don't take this the wrong way - but iif $1200 to prepare the tub for "racing" is too steep, you may not be ready for "racing." almost certainly the car isn't. tech inspectors take a dim view of cobbled structural patching. you will be money and effort ahead to sell your tub and get a sound replacement.

None takin...But I just did some figuring and came up with $1000 and thats not stiffening up the chassis.Thats like a weak bone stock set up.Then tack up another $300 in stiffening that and a roll cage....Plus Im not going to run the heaters through the rockers...That aint working here in NY.....I couldnt find that post on the classic board but Ill look some more..What I was thinking was getting flat stock 1/4 inch steel and rebuilbing the entire tub section from tire to tire.Sorta frame it like a letter "F"on its side......No offense to the Naturalist....When I say race the car..I mean a local SCCA winter Rally and maybe a few others...I would like to do Watkins Glen but based on all the rules...Probably not........I wish though"The Boot"..........

QUOTE (F1rocco @ Jun 24 2005, 03:45 PM)

I would like to do Watkins Glen but based on all the rules...Probably not........I wish though"The Boot"..........

if you just want to *drive* The Glen, as opposed to an actual wheel-to-wheel race, check out TracQuest.

they put on one of THE best DE programs ANYWHERE.
your car must be SAFE and RELIABLE but you are responsible for that.

i have been trying to get up to a TracQuest Glen event for a couple of years - and it looks like this won't be the year either. Some Day Soon, tho... the spring '06 event, maybe...