Looking for help with project car

[fishzine]

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

[HEATNBEAT]

Hi Brian and welcome!
Do you any pictures?

[RockHillWill]

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

[Doug M]

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.

[fishzine]

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

[Kerry Pinkerton]

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.