New Floor Pan Prep

This morning I fixed the passengers side Floor plan. Here are a few photos of the 4 hours of work. I purchased this front pan from Ray Cave. Ray is a great guy and has just about anything you culd want for used Honda parts. I was originally going to rebuild this from scratch but this turned out to be so much better than fabing this part form scratch


Here is a shot of the pan before I removed it. You can see that all along the diagnal brace its rusted.



The pan the way I got it from Ray.



Shot of the pan removed. I used the lip of the seat brace as the place to join them and the roceker panel edge along the side. Along the front its installed like it was at the factory and at teh tunnel its a butt joint.



Final trial fit before tack welding



Final shot of the pan tack welded in place.



I have the diagonal brace yet to install and then its on to the other side. With any luck I will have teh drivers side done Sunday and I can do the final welding this coming week after work or next weekend. Then its time for a full sand blast for the underside and a couple coats of PPG etching primer and DP epoxy sealer.

Spring is Here

Its been a while since I posted any progress on my car. I am in the process of installing a new front floor pan I purchased from Ray Cave. Im hoping to get the underside buttoned up and epoxy primed soon, then it's on to bodywork.

In the mean time here is a fun video of a really nice S800, enjoy

A new Year and work Continues

Its a new year and I am slowly continuing to work on the floor plan rust repair on te honda. I hope to post some pictures soon.

happy New Year all!

More Rust Repair

Summer is a busy time for our family, we spend a lot of time at camp and when we are home there are always things to do around the house. I was able to find some time to patch the rust in the driver's front wheel well.

Fitting the patch panel



Finished and welded in place.



I also started on the floor pan, this is a shot of the front drivers seat mounting location, i had to recreate the recessed area where the seat bolts as well as teh surrounding area.



A better shot of the repair waiting for grinding and final welding. These were not fun to make, thankfully only two of them are rusted out the other 6 mounting locations are in fine shape.

Update

The update is I have no update.... Ive been busy around the house but will post pics of some rust repair soon.

Brake Parts

Here is my brake master cylinder when I took it out of the parts car and tore it down. I was able to remove everything except for the internal piston. After 20 years of sitting it was frozen in there pretty well.



I sent it off to Joe at Sierra Specialty Automotive and this is what I got back a few days ago. First its cleaned, from the looks of it bead blasted to a like new finish. Next, Joe hooks it up to a hydralic pump to remove the internal piston. The inside of the cylinder is then bored out to receive a brass sleave that is then pressed into it. The inside is then bored and polished to the correct diameter and the port holes are drilled.



Picture of the brass sleave.



The last picture is of the cylinder, the pistons that came out and need to be cleaned up and a rebuild kit I got from Miles.



Thanks for such great work Joe. As always thanks to Miles for the parts and your never ending help.

Body Work Begins

A new chapter has begun. I have started the body work on the 600. My goal is to get the bottom of the car in perfect shape before moving on to cosmetic body work. Today I started with the passengers front wheel well. The bottom rear corner was rusted through.

But first a couple of pics of the car on the spinner I made to work on it.


Floor pan with the majority of the undercoating removed for rust inspection.



Floor pan again.



This is the drivers wheel well and it looks like the passnegers wheel well did before I stared.



Here is the repaired wheel well. I need to finish welding but this gets it pretty much done.



I will be completing one side at a time, for now the passengers side floor pan then move on to the drivers side. Once I fix the majority of the rust holes, of which there a a few along the bottom, I will be replacing the rocker panels then moving onto the rear portion of the car which has mostly surface rust. Once all the floor pan issues are fixed I will media blast the entire pan and wheel wells inside and out and DP epoxy primer it.

My master brake cylinder and the rebuild kit for it are due this week, stay tuned for pictures.