The New Project: Part Deux!

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The rear frame rails also have some soft spots by the tail pipe hanger, where the hanger cracked a section of the rail out, possibly due to the custom exhaust that is using only the rear hangers to support the entire weight of both pipes. Normally they should have a transverse muffler that is fully supported by two brackets above the rear differential, sharing the load.



And the lower area in the normal Firebird frame rail bad spot:



Here's a quality repair [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img] - use spray foam in the rocker hole. It seems to be isolated to the passenger side inner/outer fender well seam: (By the way, look at the assembly line sticker still on the original brake drum!)



Once all the foam was picked out:

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And the traditional rear sway bar mount cracks with the obligatory weld repairs.



The funny thing is that while digging through all the repair orders I found the original one that has the welding repair done back when the car had 28,000 miles:

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The trunk floor actually doesnt look bad. (knock on wood)





It has the space saver spare tire option:

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Grant just sent me these better photos of &quot;our&quot; interior installation.




And the car sitting in the British Columbian sun. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]