PINTO CAR CLUB of AMERICA
Shiny is Good! => Your Project => Topic started by: ptsherman on March 06, 2016, 01:19:53 PM
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Well my 2.3 Pinto disease flared up again and I bought this lovely example[size=78%].[/size]
Runs, drives, generally feels like a 40 year old econobox would.
However...
Little did I know what evil lurked beneath the soaking-wet-for-decades floor mats once I ripped the carpet up.
Rotten. No floorpans whatsoever. The turd brown paint should have tipped me off.
I have to make a call on this thing; Luckily I'm crafty with TIG and MIG and general metal fab.
I've read around quite a bit, but I want to know if anyone has definitively replaced the entire floorpan with Mustang II sheet metal or what, even with modifications. I realize finding another wagon with good floorpans is my best option, but that seems like an outside chance...
Any help appreciated.
Thanks-
Paul
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Mustang II pans from Jegs seem to be the easy way to go
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What? You can't just patch that up with POR-15.? ::) While mine wasn't that bad, I did make a patch panel out of a sheet of steel. The dimples were made by putting a larger socket on the bottom of the steel, a smaller one on the top - and giving it a whack. I'd rather had a few more, but when I wound up pinching my finger in the process (and reveled a tendon) I decided I had enough. :'(
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Yeah, this is far beyond "Floorpan in a Can"!
Well the experiment is on, I have a MII floor pan coming from Sherman, I'll detail the fit here when it arrives.