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

[ghuff]

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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[FourBlades]

You might want to paint over the clean metal with eastwood rust encapsulator rather than galvanizing compound. You can't paint over the galvanizing compound
but you can paint over the eastwood stuff. You need to remove the metal ready
using a wet sponge or cloth and dry it before painting it. You don't want to leave
the metal ready on there or it can keep eating the metal.

I would think carefully about removing the cross brace and center tunnel. It will
take 150 spot welds to drill, and probably get somewhat bent up in the process.
If your tunnel is really crusty with rust maybe, but otherwise I would soak it with
metal ready, rinse it and spray rust encapsulator.

Your car looks pretty well preserved, it will be a really nice one when you get
it done.

John