Looking for help with project car
 

Greetings all. Signed up because, I am sure like many others, because I have a project car in the works and will be doing some significant rust repair. In particular there is a post on here that I want to see with the pictures on beading floor pans with hammer, and recesed plywood form.

And of course I have to tell you the car, It is a 1966 Saab 96 with the two stroke engine :) And like almost of of them, floor rust/rot is epidemic. And being a monocoque frame (no frame rails), all the sheet metal is structural... Going to be fun...


Brian

Hi Brian and welcome!
Do you any pictures?

Welcome to the site Brian. More pictures will bring more feedback and ideas.

Was it this group or another that has a member that races(raced) Saab 2 strokers? I remember someone posting race impact modification and restructuring to re-align these things.

Don't have the car just yet. Will be picking it up next week. I know floors and rockers are on my to-do list.

Will be searching around the site, and will probably start up a thread for some metal working ideas, once I get to the point of being ready to actually start some metal work. Will probably be a little bit, till I get it home, and stripped down to bare frame. Right now just trying to get some ideas/cost of making my own replacement panels vs buying replacement panels (which I am 99.9% certain isn't how I want to spend my budget), vs having a local place make me something. So I can work up a rough budget and timeline.


http://www.allmetalshaping.com/showt...ght=floor+bead

Brian, one thing that David Gardner mentioned earlier, DO NOT cut out any of the old rusty panels until you've made a good pattern or the actual replacement.

Welcome to the forum Brian. If you can buy decent repair panels and new panels such as sills, floorpans and such I would buy them, you willhave enough shaping to do for the parts you cant buy. Best way to know if the panels that are available are any good is to join a club or an on line forum for that model of car to see what others think.

David

Thanks for all the advice. Already part of the Saab community, but for more modern era stuff. Got two others sitting in my driveway right now. Actually how I found the car was through one of the Saab forums online. So have lots of good contacts for that aspect already. Signed up here as I will no doubt be looking for some metal working help. Haven't had to do any metal work on current Saab's through.
I did did hand fab some patch panels for a VW Cabrio I rebuilt for my daughter. Were all done by hand with nothing more then some 20gauge stock, a carpenter's hammer, shop vice, and welder other hand tools. Small stuff, but it has some complex curves. Was good enough that I just needed a skim coat of Body filler. Stuff I expect to need to this project, is considerably more difficult and want a much higher lvl of finish.

Pics of the pieces from the daughters VW.
What I cut out, it was about the same on each side:
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...e/IMAG0125.jpg

Patch fitted, Did a bunch more smoothing at this point that I should have done before it was in car. One lesson learned and applied to other side :)
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...e/IMAG0129.jpg