Whel... heres some pics guys this is my 89 rs that i got crazy enought to attempt basically a full rebuild in only 5 months i got alot more pics but here all i got on the computer right now. Still not sure on a paint color probally some type of kandy red engine is going to be a carburated 350 backed by a t-5 build by tkoperformance

Heres the pics theyll be updated quite often so keep an eye out and lemme kno what you think

 

man you dont kno how lucky you are to be able to do all the cars body work indoors... hope u dont take it for granted cause i went threw hell with mine dealing with what the weather wanted.. id be outside have like 10 bare metal spots then start to feel rain..

But anyway take your time its lookin great!

 

Yea its nice having the indoors i already did the outdoors stuff when i painted my first car now if only i vould get it to warm up some this cold michigan weather is killin me the garage is brand new so we dont have much for heat out there yet but ima keep on truckin only got 129 more days

 

It almost looks like a Camaro again!

 

what is it with the string of candy red cars lately...?

 

heh... you sold yours so someone ghas to take your place tlaking to my aunt that works at basf mixing paint colors for the big 3 she says that kandy colors are gonna be the next rage in paint. And what looks better than a red camaro??

 

Heres some more pics fellas

 

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rule of 3

 

Your floor pan looks excley like the drivers side in my 92rs.Its a easy fix but im sure you already know that .The guy i bought my car off of bouhgt it new and threw the floor mats in the garbage.The body of my car is bearly rust free but the floors need work because the dumb**** took the floor mats out and all the water over the years rotted through.

 

ha itsa pita but dosent look to bad to fix and i think mine are culprut of the guy never replacing the t-tops seals that basically poured water into the compartment

 

Ouch, that is alot of rust..... Sure makes me appreciate living in California and having a garage !

 

your floor is missing flintstones style, great idea man, i respect you....... but yeah im soooo gonna follow your progress cause Im tackleing this after im done school this year

 

 

Sorry to dissapoint you guys but after gettin under here to cut some rust out i really relized how bad it is and decided to back out had a long tlak with my dad about it and he agrees looking for a solid shell in mi and im parting this car out there will be a thread up soon and it will be in the classifieds

 

sad... you ought to be happy. that thing is a wreck and not worth the effort. if it was rare or held some history in your life that is one thing to go through the trouble but there are to many clean cars that will be cheaper to buy then to fix that thing.

strip it and crush it..

 

your floor is missing flintstones style, great idea man







Anyways sorry to hear man

 

i just hope i can find something soon im partin thsi one out to get money and ive already got 1 thing sold but i really want to have a completed project by may 1st so i can drive it to my prom hopefully everythign works out

 

if your starting with a very clean/solid car then i'd say it could easily be done if you aren't working and have a helping hand. i took my last car apart and redid it in 2 weeks but we had alot of people working on it.

like i told you take the rs as it's in much better shape then where your at. i don't know where you'll find a car clean enough to finish in 2-3 months without spending at least a grand or more here in michigan. i'll keep an eye out.

 

if a set of floor pans was thrown in the rs you have would it need nehtign else are the rockers/wheel wells solid? if you dont mind me asking i can do a set of floor pans but not floor pans/rockers/hinge pillars/ wheel wells/firewall ect ect

 

this is how the bay looks as it sits as you would get it. minus the fenders of course but it's all straight and good.

 

.. the problem is their are two spots the size of softballs on the underside that would need to be reworked and it needs a new passenger quarter as that's rusted from the inside out. your going to have a tough time finding something that is all complete unfortunately and free though. i'll take some pics of the floor tomorrow for you. it is no where near as bad as yours though and if you took the parts that are good off of yours which seems like some then you could make it work.

 

ok thanks you have an email tho the situation witht he quater panels kind of scares me do you have any pics?

 

I really dont see what the big deal is here.I mean floor pans and a few patches in the rockers is nothing.You could weld sloppyer then spaghetti and it wont matter you never see that stuff.Me on the other hadn decided to take a closer look at my 92 and the guy i bought it off of did a real good job with bondo i put a magnet on my 1.4 panel and it wouldent stick.I found a rust free 1984 z28 that I may swap all my parts onto.

 

i can get some the passenger quarter is out of comission.. it was rusted and had a small dent, we sort of took care of that and really messed it up as it wasn't able to be saved anyhow.

 

what are you doing about that. Im building up my rs and i have simialr rust in the same area, its just not nearly as bad as that. Im going to bring it to a body shop and have them fix it, the Por-15 over the area