Rusty bucket into Solo toy, Some highlights of my budget autocross build from rust to rocket |
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Rusty bucket into Solo toy, Some highlights of my budget autocross build from rust to rocket |
Han Solo |
Sep 30 2013, 10:40 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 288 Joined: 30-September 13 From: Middle Tennessee Member No.: 16,456 Region Association: South East States |
New to this forum but I've been around 944s, 924Ss, Boxster and Cayman forums for years.
This one is going to take some time. Purchased for $900, non-running but otherwise complete '73 914 2.0. Certainly just beyond a viable restoration car but probably okay for what I plan to do with it. Here's some highlights of the tear down... On the trailer going to the house. Attached thumbnail(s) |
Han Solo |
Dec 24 2013, 06:49 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 288 Joined: 30-September 13 From: Middle Tennessee Member No.: 16,456 Region Association: South East States |
A great day off for Christmas eve and I'm crawling through the rust (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) First thing I got the wire harness apart and culled anything that will probably never be used again. Basically all this car will need are engine functions (starter, oil pressure, temp, etc). With that mess out of the way I'm wire brushing the whole front bulkhead. There's three bad spots. Under either vent and above the peddle area. I decide to go ahead and patch the peddle area. These rust spots were cause by moisture collecting on the edges of the seam sealer in the fuel tank compartment. I drilled out the spot welds and cut out the offending material. There's one more area directly in front of the tunnel that will need to be addressed and that going to be really difficult to get to (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) Anyway, when I finished the patch, there's one other task I want to do. I've been reading a post in the tech forum about outer long re-enforcement and it discusses treating inside the long with a sprayer (without removing the outer half). That sounds like something I should really do but the stupid heater hose is not going to make that very effective. I'm convinced I can remove the hose (hard pipes front and back, flexible in the middle). The right side is my choice today and there's bottom material missing near the rear jack point so I figure I can pull out the tubing there. The front hard pipe has two spot welds holding it so I grind those off. Going in between the firewalls, I cut the rear hard pipe in half. I ground off the small rivets that hold the three hose supports located on the inside long. I start wiggling the pipes and I'm looking down inside with a work light and an inspection mirror. There's spot welds on the top of the front and rear hose support brackets so I just drilled those out. That freed everything up and I start dragging the "guts" out. That was really difficult and the flex hose pulled to pieces but eventually I got all that mess out. Last photo shows a camera shot inside the long. The bottom is really toasty but 2/3 of the sides and the top are surprisingly rust free. I'll vacuum out the remaining junk and treat with rust kill. Sorry about the lack of photos but it was a real thrash and I was just focused on "getting 'er done" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bye1.gif)
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