Build Thread '83 T-top Coupe - Welding Holes in My Rear

[Davedacarpainter]

You are actually counting?

I have that kind of personality unfortunately...........

Is that you Rain Man?

 

[General karthief]

Quite, time for Jeopardy
what time does judge wapner come on?

 

[Davedacarpainter]

Quite, time for Jeopardy

 

[Davedacarpainter]

So, this is as far as I got tonight. Both subframe rails have been welded to the new floor. A little of the firewall and a small portion of the driver's rear corner. Total of 114 spot welds for tonight. 90 to go........Then there's the seat brace

 

[stanglx2002]

You drinking, lifting weights and welding?

 

[Davedacarpainter]

You drinking, lifting weights and welding?

Hey, you do what you need to, I’ll do what I need to

 

[02 281 GT]

Dave is the manliest of men.

 

[droopie85gt]

He was welding WHILE drinking and lifting weights! He is an extraordinary multitasking guy.

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

Everyday I keep looking in, and every day I keep saying the same thing..
I'm glad its you doing all of that, and not me.

I cannot imagine the grinding that is gonna take place...

 

[BlakeusMaximus]

Everyday I keep looking in, and every day I keep saying the same thing..
I'm glad its you doing all of that, and not me.

I cannot imagine the grinding that is gonna take place...

A lot of grinding. Tedious grinding.....

 

[Davedacarpainter]

A lot of grinding. Tedious grinding.....

What? It’s only a couple hundred spotwelds......should be easy peasy

 

[Davedacarpainter]

I found out what to do with my fixed up seats now!

 

[stanglx2002]

You getting ready to be old

Start with a manual now and move up to a automatic in a few years

 

[Davedacarpainter]

Everyday I keep looking in, and every day I keep saying the same thing..
I'm glad its you doing all of that, and not me.

I cannot imagine the grinding that is gonna take place...

Truthfully, I’m not intending to grind all of them. Just the ones that need it for any fitment issues.

They’ll have a nice layer of dynamat going over them anyhow.

 

[95BlueStallion]

I was just wondering about the grinding. I too would just paint and cover with dynamat.

 

[BlakeusMaximus]

I was just wondering about the grinding. I too would just paint and cover with dynamat.

Me too, although it’s not industry standard.

 

[Davedacarpainter]

Sorry I haven’t welded anything in the past couple of days guys, I ran out of consumables. Got that taken care of, I’ll be back after it in a few minutes.

 

[Davedacarpainter]

I got the welds along the left rocker, it’s holding a 210 pound guy, hopefully it’ll hold a lot more

 

[Vettn71]

Dave, you always do such good work. A real perfectionist . Makes me want to do the best on my 84

Jim

 

[Davedacarpainter]

I'm almost out of argon.

I started welding the right rear since I new it would be a little bit of a pita. The original rear floor pan metal had pitting in it there.

That went better than expected, so I went down the right rocker too. It was nice toward the end since I can now crawl onto the floor to weld. The right side took longer than the left side. The inner rocker metal was very wavey. The pan comes up 3/4" from the bottom of the pinch weld, so about every three welds I'd measure, beat the metal flat against the rocker, measure again and weld.

I had to take a break at that stage because I'm sweating so profusely. I had to come in and put a dry shirt on. I'm going to attempt to get the trans tunnel ends welded up next, if the god of argon grants me about another twenty spot welds, that is.