66 911 rustbucket

[Fishcop]

If you know sheet metal then you're already 100 miles in front of most of us - certainly me at least Looking forward to seeing your work.

[super rat]

well fishcop,now the pressure's on!..well i spent all day with the wire on a right angle grinder,the wire wheel decided to show me who's boss,jumped off a metal edge,got caught in my tshirt and fillet my chest,so i got to spend the rest of the day workin in excruciating pain!..actually,it didnt hurt that bad.anyhow,after scranbling my brain all day,i think i have a game-plan,since the back half of the floorpan is beat up pretty bad,but not really rusted to speak of,im gonna try n remove it,hammer n dolly it into shape and salvage it.we'll see if that actually works.im pretending that aftermarket panels arent available for this car,cuz thats the only thing keeping me from spending a grand on em.ok,picture time

[super rat]

[super rat]

ok heres the line im gonna cut,if you can see it

[super rat]

normally i like to start on the most difficult parts so i can reward myself with the easier stuff later,but not on this project,im gonna hone my skills on the easier stuff!

[super rat]

remember kids..safety first!

[pksystems]

You'll probably want to replace them when you see the inner surface of the floor. There were no spot welds holding the floor to the longitudinal around the t-tube in mine. I'm not sure if Hans just missed 16" worth of welds, or if they all rusted out

I thought mine where pretty good.... and I'd just patch em... so I made the outer area on the entire drivers side. Later I bought a rear section cause I was going crazy trying to match all the different angles at the rear of the floor. The passenger side will be easier cause I have the entire rear section.... I'll just have to make the front edge

[pksystems]

Originally Posted by super rat

ok heres the line im gonna cut,if you can see it

Those holes I see..... look identicle to mine ... the inner surface is gonna be nasty, pitted, super dark brown..... I don't see any pitting on the outer surface, so it rusted from the inside

[super rat]

yeah,yer right,if worse comes to worse,i can straighten the whole thing out and use it for a pattern.maybe

[Fishcop]

Nasty war wound! I've had a few "incidents" myself with the grinder

I'm going to side with PK on this... those pans are going to be soooo thin from the inside. I fought the new panel thing for a while, but even with your skills - your time might be better spent?

I bought a gutted SC shell for $500 and unstitched the floor as well as many other useful patches - I still went with a replacement rear floor section as removing the SC floor proved too hard for me and I butchered quite a few of the spot weld cuts

[super rat]

yes,i checked out your thread,ive pretty much checked out the threads of all the people commenting,im really suprised by how many of these porsche's have pretty much identical problems as mine.i guess i shouldnt really though,after all my vw bug and bus experiances! ok,today went pretty well,i have no idea what i was thinkin,using the old pan.altogether crazy!so i'll get to pictures

[super rat]

[super rat]

[super rat]

ok,im gonna do this in 3 pieces with the edges flanged,it'll make sense as i go

[super rat]

i make a paper pattern first,found this big piece of paper in my shop

[super rat]

[super rat]

[super rat]

this thing here was rusted pretty bad so i cut off the bad side and made this piece,i also got a few more misc peices made here and there but i didnt take pics.

[super rat]

just been pluggin away,trimming out rusty parts and making panels,seem to be makin some headway,

[super rat]