The New Project: Part Deux!

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And now for the bad stuff:

During the car's "quickie" paint job in 1985, there must have been some issue with the trunk drop offs, so the body shop boxed them in with an entire plate of sheet metal. Looks bizarre, since the quarters seem pretty solid at the bottoms:

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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]