Project: 40/Yr old makeover.

[BlazinC5]

With the outer front floor support securely in place, I also had it bolted up to the A pillar, inner rocker, and kick panel. I made some plug welds in the small section of the floor area. I used some sheetmetal screws to hold it in place that i stole from an old busted washing machine. Sometimes beeing a packrat has advantages. Cause I figured they would be useful for something some day. and since everything was nice and snug in place, I tacked welded the kick pannel and lower A pillar on too. Keep in mind the inner rocker needed a bit of modification to fit in place and the tail end of it was shortend because it was going to a blazer. I also had to drill 2 holes to match up with the rear floor support.


As for the A-pillar patch. Once I got it tacked on, it needed some tweeking too. I just lined up the critical outer points and tapped the material into place with the body hammer making a nice smooth radious.

After I was satisfied with everything, I welded it solid. It seems I am also lacking the pic of it ground smooth. I'll have to look in my other file and try to find it. It looked really nice all polished up.


Time to tackle some floor. When you get a floor, side section. There is alot of extra I didn't need. So I turned on the Plasma cutter and started triming it down to a more manageable size. I got a lil carried away on the rearward side. But worked out in the end. The front part was more of a challenge with making it meet up to the firewall. I didn't want to just lay it over the top and weld it. I wanted it to fit like the old floor. So there was lots of trimming and bending with my wide mouth vise grips.


I cut some slits in in the panel about the same width of the vise grips and bent the end over at a 90 deg. angle.