These pics are the Drivers front floorpan before and after. I had patched the floorpans way back when by pop riviting and sealing a piece of sheetmetal over the hole since all we had was an ARC welder and Layson's wouldnt be making repop pans for about 12 more years!The light gray section in the first pic is the ground. The black in the middle is the frame channel. I used POR 15 everywhere I could reach inside the frames. The stuff is awsome!!!
This is the area where the drivers floorpan, firewall, and splashshield all come together. The splashield isn't actually "pinched" together with the other two panels, it's only spotwelded to the floorpan. No wonder it rusted out.
This is the inside and outside of the pass. floorpan and splashshield. I had to fabricate the corner piece of the shield, as well as the pinch molding. I had thought about doing away with it entirely but decided against it. I did cut it off in the tranny tunnel and reinforced it inside with a strip of 14 ga. sheetmetal.
I originally cut the pinchweld off in the tranny tunnel for clearance on the 727. You usually have to do a little clearancing on the early A's at the pinchweld and in the kickdown linkage area. Some people claim to not have to do this. Production tolerances must have varied widely. I have to make a little more clearance for the 4 speeds Lakewood Blow-proof Bellhousing. There's no way anyone could get one of those in there with the pinchweld intact. To see pics on the Bellhousing... go here (still in progress), or of the 4 speed hump install, click here.
