924Board.org

Cedric · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2805 Location: Sweden

Just take it slowly, read up alot before you dive and try yourself and you have come along way. My advice would be to at all cost avoid quick and dirty solutions that you will "fix later", those will add up and never be sorted most likely, have seen that happen to many times over the years 😂
_________________
1980 924 Turbo
www.instagram.com/garagecedric/

safe · Joined: 18 Mar 2017 Posts: 698 Location: Sweden

safe · Joined: 18 Mar 2017 Posts: 698 Location: Sweden

Tun'd Up · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 1:13 pm Post subject:

So here are a couple pictures of the inside sheet metal, The top picture is the area where the seat belt mounts to at the bottom of the driver side door. The metal has been cleaned with a wire wheel drill attachment and a coat of primer thrown on to prevent further rust development until I make a proper sheet metal repair. Does anyone know how this is structured underneath this metal? I don't want to start and then find more rust and not go in with a gameplan for a patch panel repair. You'll also see below that the E-brake cable is rusted pretty badly and the tube that it goes through has been rusted pretty bad as well. Going to come up with a solution to that, may relocate the E-brake to the center console and possibly upgrade the E-brake to a sportier one we'll see. Never liked the idea of an E-brake on the side where the door is. If anyone has done either before on their 924 I'd like to see how they have done it.

The bottom picture is the passenger floor pan and its starting to rust up in this area because of a leak that I suspect is from the battery tray. The floor pan is starting to flex easy when I put pressure on it and the driver side is not like this. The battery tray is starting to rust out too and I'm also going to do a proper sheet metal repair on that as well. Since the car is outside I have been able to detect the leak. I wouldn't have been able to tell if it was inside a garage lol. (I cover the car with a tarp now, Don't worry) But I'm hoping the leak is a simple fix and it doesn't take much. In the upcoming video I'll be posting soon, I'll be removing a good bit of the sound deadening and checking the status of the floor pan underneath.

[/url]

Also does anyone know where I can get a replacement floor pan and battery tray, and if they even make replacements?

I'll post a pic of the battery tray soon. It's pretty bad.
_________________
Porsche 924 Turbo - Current Project

ChrisMadge · Joined: 16 Dec 2020 Posts: 29 Location: Bristol, UK

safe · Joined: 18 Mar 2017 Posts: 698 Location: Sweden

There is a good reason for the hand brake to be on the outboard side, there is simply no other room for it with the high and wide tunnel in the middle. There is no downside to the placement other than it can be hard to reach when you fit a roll cage.

You have to remove the bitumen sound deadening on the floor and battery tray to se where you have rust. But it is common to have it leak in from the battery tray, that area is trick to repair lots of overlapping metal. On the floor its common to rust in the front corner of the sil both from the inside and outside. Dirt and moisture collect between the front fender and body and rust it out. Here there is also lots of overlapping and interconnecting sheet metal.

There is not much panels to buy, you will have to make most patch panels, that is tricky.
I'd suggest Fitzee's Fabrications on youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6JPmJ_aicru8XPWr3EvJnw/videos
He has some really neat content. Oldschool.
_________________
/Magnus, Stockholm Sweden
=======================
Porsche 924 -79 NA, EFI and Turbo.
Porsche 931 -79
Porsche 911 -77, 3.2 Targa
Porsche 911 -69, 3.6, Coupe

Tun'd Up · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2022 2:45 am Post subject:

safe · Joined: 18 Mar 2017 Posts: 698 Location: Sweden

Tun'd Up · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 1:09 pm Post subject:

I've finished recording most of the first video, working on editing it now. Looking to post by this Sunday. Turns out my floor pan was solid after all. The flexing was from the sound deadening soaking up water like a sponge and then when it dried up it would sound crunchy and it looked like it was rusted around the drain plug pretty good but it was just surface rust. So I shouldn't have to replace the floor pan now. The seat mounts are still solid as well. Took most of it back to bare metal. All of the sound deadening is gone, it was hard to remove with a screwdriver and a hammer but I got most of it with that. Ended up using a grinding wheel attachment on an angle grinder and that took it off pretty easy. Gonna use that from now on on the other side. Threw a coat of primer on to seal it up. Still working on getting it out of the rain.
_________________
Porsche 924 Turbo - Current Project