Surgery for the track car

[Spiff325iS]

Sick build man. I would love to undergo a project like that. Nice work!

[JGood]

I though Teaguer was referring to Jordon's respect for my Mark Kay Pink eta.

[Farbin Kaiber]

But this guy used pateches of what look like other e30's the other guy was using scrap.

[FredK]

Jordo got into an e-fight with this canuck about welding in patches in the floor. But, that's water under the bridge.

Good job on the fix though. Nice and strong.

[JGood]

Haha I was going to say the same thing .

Oh and Jordo would NOT approve . :D

That square is not a jacking point? I most often just use the frame rail anyway, but every shop I've ever been to has used that square.

Why wouldn't Jordo approve? I kept it red, no pink paint here...

[Teaguer]

Nice work, but im pretty sure thats NOT a jacking point.

Haha I was going to say the same thing .

Oh and Jordo would NOT approve . :D

[Hick]

Nice work, but im pretty sure thats NOT a jacking point.

[153624]

Good job! I did the same with a bunch of mid 80's fords at my last Job. I failed to pay attention to details as much as you did.

[JGood]

The 87 325is track car had some rust forming in the floorboard. I went to jack up the car from the square lift point, which then went up into the carpet. So began the surgery:

• Cut nice big square area out of floor
• Cut similar square, but ~1" bigger in all directions, out of parts car (89 325i)
• Clean all the undercoating and paint from area
• Discover rust in replacement panel (DOH!!!)
• Clean away rust, find a 1" hole left over
• Weld new metal into replacement panel
• Weld panel into car (from underneath, so it overlaps)
• Grind welds, seal it (used body filler)
• Spray undercoating
• Spray duplicolor red on inside, which is pretty close to zinno (close enough for a track car, anyway)

Obviously, this is far from professional, and was done in the spare time I have between full time work and school, to get a track car ready for the season. So don't bust my balls too bad