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Hello everyone! If you haven't already had a look at the photo's of my car yet, I am trying to find the best way to repair an area of floor that is pretty much right behind the end of the replacement front floor pieces, and outboard of the front seat bolt holes. The area is scalloped, so I am in two mindsets on how to replace this area (it is too far gone to weld up the rust holes). I am either going to try to stitch together some old pieces of floor section, or replace with a flat, thicker piece of material. Is either of these the norm, or is there another method that would be easier than the two I have come up with???
(if you have good eyesight I have circled the area in red)
Wagonman

No expert rustcutter/panelbeater/spraypainter here but...........

I made some smallish floor rust replacement sections myself when I was getting my old bomb rego ready.

My floors were salvageable with some new small sections welded in.

The rusted sections were part of the ribbed section of the floor and I was able to make up some new sections to weld in using my limited metal working/fabricating skills and once painted it would be hard to pick that they were ever repaired in that area.

I used a brick bolster/hammer, some heat and a swage block to get the ribbed sections right but in place of a swage block you could use a length of pipe cut in half lengthways and fitted in a vice and it would do the same thing.


Nothings the norm, just do it to how you can or to the degree of repair outcome you'd be happy with.

Maybe a closer photo of the rusted section might help.

Other more skilled body repair blokes here might be able to offer better advice than me.............................................

hope that bit of waffling from me helps somewhat........

Yep as FBMad said, try and make up something yourself. In the end it won't be seen once back together so unless you're aiming for a concourse finish or show car I don't think anyone will notice how good or bad it is or care. So long as you're happy with it that's all that really matters.

Find yourself a nice solid bit of tree stump, a couple of pieces of wood and some panel hammers and away you go, take your time and you can make anything.

Thanks to all. I am really not fussed about the aesthetics of the floor. Think I will go ahead with cutting up a spare floorpan to fit.