Mav1970's Insane 69.5 Street Project

I notice the tunnel in one pic and not in another..

 

In a past project, I had taken the little 69.5 tunnel out and replaced it with a larger tunnel from a 1972 (more Rick Brooks Texas parts) but I haven't welded it in yet until I build new under tunnel bracing to match up with the crossmember. I found myself leaning on it, while working on the floor today so I moved it to the passenger side so I wouldn't dent it.

 

Some of those areas look too familiar......you're gettin' there!

 

Must be some things are common to 1970 Mavericks from the Northeast part of the United States, I guess

 

Had a good day today

I made a lot of progress on my driver side floor today. I made up a piece os 1 x 1 angle and spot welded in to the left corner of the floor where it meets the kick panel to give the new floor metal a somewhere to be secured to. I cut out a piece of steel to fit into the floor right behind the torque box so I could knit the pedal area of the floor boards back to the torque box. The back side of the torque box had a lot of corrosion so this plate also added strength to the box. I welded in 2 small replacement pieces to the main floor and then cut and formed the main patch piece that took care of the remaining cut out areas from the steering column down and under the left front cage mounting plate. As pieces were being spot and tack welded in place, everything was coated with Eastman products. The last thing I need to do now, to the driver floor, is to add paintable seam sealer to the tack weld lines and coat the floor.

 

Lookin good, Bob!

 

Appreciate that, Rusty

 

You must like that green stuff!! Looks awesome!

 

One more thing

I also angle cut a piece of 2 x 2 steel tubing and built a small crossmember that will fasten from the sub-frame rail over to the inside of the rocker. This piece will contain the underside plate to match the above floor plate for my cage leg mounts. These plates will sandwich the floor board using 4 bolts. In the photo, it is just pushed into place for now. I'll make another one for the passenger side but the rear cage mounts go right into the torque boxes so they should be OK without these.

Should help make the car solid as a rock.

 

Lookin' good Bob!

 

That called "using up what I already bought before it goes bad no matter what color it is" LOL!

I learned a valuble lesson leaving Rust Bullet get old

 

I've got a rock hard quart of POR15, I'll trade you

 

I'd be making out pretty good because my rock hard quart of Rust Bullet is half empty

I'd be gaining another full half a quart of rock hard crap

 

I like what you did, going from the subframe to the rockers and incorporating the cage mount there.

I have felt that adding a stringer from the subframe to the rockers potentially could do more than standard subframe connectors, by eliminating some potential twist. Tying it into the cage is a bonus.

 

I just have to say that I really dig this cars chassis/cage engineering. And the level of sharing and graciousness offered on your part is highly commendable, to say the least.

Several restomod iterations later on I will be doing many similar things to mine as well. But to start out with on the cheap and maintain some stealth.. I'll be running various gussets from front to rear wherever I can possibly fit them. I'll also be sharing what I can along the way too.

Many don't realize the level of rigidity that can be gained from simpler gusset mod's on most any old unibody car and if done correctly they are extremely light weight too.