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]

Starting to make some headway putting some structure back into the car. Chris and I have been cutting out bad metal and fabricating the pieces to replace them. Now we’re starting to get them welded back in. The fabrication work is a fun challenge, but it’s really satisfying to get the parts welded in and to feel the ridigity of the structure improving.
Found more rust in near the right front jack point, so needed to form a patch panel with the press.



Welded in the interior firewall




Got the front end of the right side inner long welded in today