Laguna Blue 75 build thread, Freshly painted Options

[Tim17]

The previous owner told us the hell hole and longs had been done and he seemed like an honest car guy. So that was dumb and naive of me. It was clear that a bunch of work had been done around the hell hole, which looked good from the engine bay. When we got it home and on the lift we were faced with a rusted out lower firewall.
Ordered a firewall repair panel.
We pulled the engine today and cut out the lower firewall and it’s pretty ugly.

[Tim17]

It's been great having this forum to get all the help figuring out how best to save this 914. I've been reading a lot of posts and have some great examples to follow. Plan is to remove the inner rocker panel to expose the extent of the rust damage. Will replace the rocker panel with a new one and aim to fabricate patches for the rest.

My friend Chris and I finished building and installing the door bracing.



and we drilled out spot welds on the threshold and inner rocker



once off, we can see solid metal on a lot of the inner long, but the bottom is rusted out



Tim