Painting the Floorpan

14th October 2012
No rest for the wicked, its time to turn the pan over and start wire brushing again.

 

 

With the pan bear, I gave it a a good clean with Thinners then masked up and applied seam sealant.  Once this had dried, I applied the KBS Aqua Clean.

 

Once washed off, a treatment of rust blast, and then when completely dry the Rust Seal paint.

 

 

One coat of Rust seal on.  Applied with a brush, the finish was  a little streaky in colour.  Applied the next two coats with a gloss roller and the finish was great.

However, I wanted to make doubly sure so applied 2 spray coats of hammerite over the top within 2 hours of applying the Rust seal.

 

 

I am completely amazed by the finish.  This will be the finished surface, no underseal, waxoyl or anything.  Just a shiny silver floor with everything attached to it in black.

Next, the jobs I have been waiting for, stripping/cleaning and painting all of the suspension parts ready to re-fit and get this chassis rolling again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Floor pan modifications

6th October 2012
Prior to painting the chassis, i wanted to get all of the mods to the floor completed.  These included:

1. Fit original seat frames.
2. Fit seat frame mods to accept 1970 porsche seats.
3. Add brackets and holes for RHD pedal conversion.
4. Cut seat belt points from old pans and fit to new.

 Seat frames added, cleaned up with a coat of zinc.

RHD pedal cluster refurbished and trial fitted.




Seats trial fitted.














No delaying the next job, cleam off the black paint from the pan halves ready for paint.






6hrs of grinding later, the floor pan halves are bare metal on one side.  I decided to zinc coat the pan, seam seal and then 3 coats of  black (smooth) hammerite on the inside pan halves.
For all chassis parts exposed to outside, I wanted to try a KBS coating system consisting of a degreaser, rust converter and the paint in silver.

The end result:

 

 

Floor pan welding

28th September 2012
This weekend, spent time checking the final fit of the floor pan halves, setting up the welder and punching 6mm holes in the floor pan edge every 1/2" to plug weld.  To ensure a tight fit, I made a wooden prop to press down on the floor pan from the garage roof trusses.

Once both sides were welded, then ground the welds down flat to tidy up.

 

And sprayed on some zinc spray to keep the rust away.

 

 

 Feels like a step forward,  but a long way to go.