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[woodenman23]

I have been working towards being able to get the floor in.







I have done the same to the other side as well. Just needing to paint some por15 along the bottom of the rear quarters for extra protection, as I don't think it will be easy getting good coverage when the floor and stiffener bracket is in.



Had to do a couple of repairs along the bottom of the toe board. After this was done I dressed down the welds the where on the inside of the car so that the floor would sit flush.

[woodenman23]

A lot more trial fittings of the floor. One thing pictures don't convey is how much time everything takes, I know I'm not the fastest of workers. At least it now sits nicely up into the cradle I made to help with the realignment of the floor.



Confident that I have now got the floor where it needs to be I drilled through the holes on my cradle for the seat belt anchoring plate. After a couple of coats of paint, on the mating faces, I bolted it in and then welded it. This should allow me to get it back into the same position a lot easier now.



Back out with the floor to drill a sh*t tonne of holes ready for plug welding.





All the surfaces that will be lapped have had a couple of coats of por15.








Should have the floor welded in soon.....................










Hopefully

[MiniJosh92]

Some superb effort & dedication going into this, very well done so far, keep it up :)

[alex-95]

Look's great liam, I always find that the fitting takes the most time, Once it's placed, It doesn't take long to weld in.

[minimikej]

Proper job, well done

[woodenman23]

Thanks guys.

UPDATE!!!

I now have the floor welded in.
















Liam

[woodenman23]

Wooo, I have some 'Likes' I don't get many of them.

[ryan22_lgm]

thats a beauty! good job!

[Minidarren83]

It looks great I'm loving how you braced the car putting reference points in there too like a mini jig type thing it's great keep it up
Darren

[woodenman23]

I'm going to be investing in a decent pair of safety goggles/glasses. Somehow even though I was wearing my (cheapo) safety glasses I got a sharp bit of metal in my eye whilst using the angle grinder. Bleeding painful even more so after they removed it, as they scratch with a needle at the surface of your eye Luckily my brothers girlfriends mum is a eye specialist at the local hospital so skipped the a&e fun fair.

It looks great I'm loving how you braced the car putting reference points in there too like a mini jig type thing it's great keep it up
Darren

Yeah that cradle thing really did help to make sure everything went back as it should.

[woodenman23]

Dressed all the welds on the underside of the car. A couple of my plug welds had little hair pin holes, once I have sort this with more weld i'll etch prime for protection. Then I have to dress down the penetration I got on the inside, fun fun fun...





Liam

[matthew_leech]

Looking good :)

Seeing this thread makes me want to do mine, it just isn't rusty yet haha!

I am still unsure how the rear bumper idea will look once finished!

What sort of overall "look" are you going for with the 'state?

[woodenman23]

To be honest I don't even know the 'look' I'm going for. There are still lots of things I'm undecided about. After seeing your car I don't even know if I'm going to run arches or not.

I got the idea of the bumper from the innocenti estate which had a full length bumper. Mine isn't exactly the same. This might help you visualise it

[matthew_leech]

Yh I haven't gone for a look, just period mods! Just having a non rusty shell is a good start which it seems your nearly there with :)

Clubman estates, in my opinion obviously, don't suit arches, they are so square little round bulges look out of place in my eyes.

The Inno looks cool, but the number plate is on the door which doesn't look to bad with the business of the wooden trims on travellers, where you thinking of mounting it?

I wouldn't mind original rear bumpers for mine as I have stainless van ones on currently!

Edited by matthew_leech, 07 December 2012 - 09:16 PM.

[MG x Nero]

nice job on the resto so far liking the daily run about as well :)