BMW 635CSi Restomod

[ingenieur]

ferret50 said:

ingenieur said:

BlueBob said:

Going to have trouble with your EGTs there!

Plastic pistons as well?

Plastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5LVtPDGabc
Wood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ij9r_frd8

[gazzol]

So.......once the driver side inner and outer sills were all buttoned up the next phase was to repair the floor. I had bought replacement footwells which dealt with most of the rust but there was still repairs to do where the floor meets the bulkhead and also there was a section between front and rear footwells that needed to be fabricated. On top of this I have decided to have a side exit exhaust and in order to make a bit more room for a silencer under where the rear seat would be I decided to raise the floor in that area by slicing along the transmission tunnel and lifting the floor, this in turn necessitated the fabrication of an infill panel. In order to keep the factory look I rolled beads in the panels I made to line up with the beads in the existing panels.







Sorry forgot to get any more photos on the front footwells being fitted

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I also added an extra strengthening plate from the subframe mount down to where the subframe brace bolts tho the rear floor to stop the floor from flexing due to loading from the subframe.



Before moving on the the other side of the car I need to clean all the welds up underneath and weld up any pin holes.

[gazzol]

Cut, weld, grind repeat.
Once the inner and outer sills and floor pan was done on the right side of the shell I moved over to the left side and started all over again.

Edited by gazzol on Sunday 30th June 21:46

Edited by gazzol on Sunday 30th June 21:48