Diary of a Madman; TitaniumTT's see you @ DGRRXI RE-REbuild

[TitaniumTT]

So my testicles finally decended and I started on the rot repair tonight. Started by removing the factory sound deadner. I've found that if you score it with a scraper, then use that same scraper to hammer away at it, it comes off in sections. I plan on leaving as much down as possible and just putting the LS over what the factory put down. Trying to make the interior as quite as possible.



Then the good 'ole plasma comes out. Way more get's cut out than you would think to make sure you get all the cancer out and have good material to weld to. The factory sheet metal is thin, really thin, 18 maybe 20 gauge.



and from the bottom, the car was right side up for most of this repair but being able to flip her upside down for welding both sides is KEY!






Had to cut out a piece of the seat support so I could get better access to the area that needed to be repaired.

[TitaniumTT]

Welded one piece of 16ga into the bottom



Then the vertical piece gets welded in... I swear that vertical peice was 22ga and MIG'ing 22ga to 16ga is a PITA..... not my prettiest welds but they're strong as all get out.



and one shot of the nastiness that I cut out. Shame, damn NE cars. The worst of the repairs are still to come over the next few days. PRAYING to get the Herculiner on by the end of the weekend but I doubt it'll happen..... oh well. I still have 56 days left