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Closer to complete
Here are some pics of my K5. I will post some newer pics of the paint soon. This is where most of the blood, sweat, and tears went.
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Re: Closer to complete
putting them back together one tac weld at a time
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Nice work
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Nice work!! Wish mine was that far along. No more rust
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Re: Closer to complete
Looking good.
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Nice Job
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Another K5 getting saved - gotta like that!
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look'n good.
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Pics like that make me cringe. Good work. One day late next year hopefully I will be doing the same thing (sick thing to wish for I know).
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Nice job!
Keep the pics coming.
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i have a question...does the inner rocker, either the panel that you can buy or the section that's part of the floor pan, get welded to the outter rocker or does it just butt up against it really tight?
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I just butted them up right about where the door sill plate goes, but they end at the same place so I welded them where they met. Its kinda underneath, where the rocker meets the gravel pan.
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Here are more pics of the progress....
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What type of weld joint did you use on your floor pans? Butt? Overlap? Flanged?
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On the floor pans I overlapped the panals for a little bit of added strength. I figured it is going to be under the carpet anyway, and I also did not want to deal with warping.
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Nice Nova
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Nice work! How much overlap did you use? 1/8"? 1/4"?
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Probably about a quarter or so. What I would do is trim the new floor piece roughly to the size I needed (they come pretty big), then cut out the exsisting floor roughly to size. By doing that you can kinda fit in the new panel and trace it on your old floor and then do the final trimming and grinding.
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Looking good..
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Re: Closer to complete
Some more pics as it gets closer to being started and maybe even moving under its oun power
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Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet, what color is that? It looks kinda like Vanilla
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AWESOME
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Its actually a car color, but from the same era its called butternut yellow. It was popular on chevelles.
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