Progress, The 2011 Hershey show gave me another shot of motivation Options

[saigon71]

I have now attended the Hershey Porsche show three times without an operational teener...NOT being part of the caravan is getting old. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

Finally got my new inner long welded in with doubler plates on all seams. Verified the incline of the new long with an incline gauge (with the car level) following Jeff Hails build thread. Door operates well! Entire inner long has been coated with rust encapsulator.

Still have a long way to go but I am hoping that this was the toughest part.

Thanks to Scotty B, Jeff Hail, and everyone else who has posted a build thread on this topic. I have read all of them & learned a lot. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

Bob

[saigon71]

Ended up with a bit of a mess where the floorpan meets the firewall on the passenger side & will have to make pieces to fill the areas. Hindsight being 20/20, I would have bought this section(s) welded them in and been done by now.




Needed to fabricate the verticals of both the inner and outer firewall. I was able to get a close measurement by measuring the rise of the old piece and adding the width of the metal cutting wheel. Something warped in the floor, leaving too narrow of a gap on the outside. Had to drive a solid wedge between the original firewall and new floorpan to pry these apart for the correct spacing and weld a chunk in to hold it in place. The wood splitting mall was crude but effective.