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]

Took a shot at using MDF dies in my 12 ton press to form the corner of the floor rotted out under the hell hole. I wasn't sure if the MDF would be strong enough to stretch the metal in the corner, but it worked.

traced the shape onto paper from the section I'd cut out and made MDF and plywood male and female dies. The female die was bolted into threaded holed in a piece of steel. These screws also went though the sheet metal blank and a clamping piece of plywood to try and keep the flange flat.

Following pics show the setup and the formed blank. I need to trim off the excess material but the flanges didn't distort.







Tim