Let's save another 914, and get it decent., Probably need advice from you old school 914 folk Options

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So here is the rust on this one. It's a 75 cali car it's entire life.

Get the worst over to begin. Let us take a look at the hell hole. It was solid, and even passed teh screwdriver/hammer test....

*until* it soaked in metal ready a while... then the screwdriver test started picking out giant holes which you see here. It is still soaking, and has been on/off for days not to eat away more to see what metal is truly left. Next step is a grinder or non-hand tool of sorts to break deep into the pitting and see what truly is through.

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Nice work. This car will be one you'll be proud of for all your effort. Do you weld?

[ghuff]

Nice work. This car will be one you'll be proud of for all your effort. Do you weld?

Thanks. I started at 9:30pm. I left my new garage at 4:30am. The entire time was focused on this panel and swapping ipods for tuneage.

I am torn, I look at the current pitting left and think "Is that good enough to por-15 and forget about forever?" "Will that pitting spread and come back to haunt me in 10+ years if I do not grind it all out now and soak it in metal ready more to eat it?"

I still have to drill the spot welds on the seat bracket mounts and remove them. There is some surface hiding under them I can see it from the tiny holes in the brackets. I'd hate for it to rot out from under there.

I think I am going to grind more of it out and maybe pickup a 4" disc sander or something to add 60 grit paper to and remove more of the uneven metal/pitting. I want it *clean*. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

I want to do this right, and retain as much of the original sheetmetal on the car as possible.

I weld, but I suck. I have been limping along on flux, but I have a bottle capable Lincoln Electric weldpak 3200.

I am going to have to move up, get a bottle and pickup some metal of the floorpan and tunnel gauge to practice spot welding the center tunnel back in to get the settings on the welder right I guess? I was thinking about this last night since the tunnel must come out as must the cross brace. I also am going to have to get the seat brackets back in.........


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