well i was looking for my passangers side floor light so i took off the panel to get under the dash and i noticed a little rust so i took off the side panle and saw this rust and this is the out side of the rust is this a normal place for rust?

 

Ouch. My firebird was driven all last winter, and the previous owner drove it all year around, but it doesn't have any rust there.

 

yea i have had to drive mine in the winter also i got under the drivers side of the rug also but its a little frather back than the passangers side

i think my car was in a wreck because under the car close to that spot the sheet metal is all tore up and wrinkled

 

thats pretty common for what i have seen, see if where the fender mounts to the rocker, that little tab that sticks down, is sticking straight down. chances are a previous owner tried to use that as a jacking point and bent the tab, and thus creating the rust. check out underneith your car in that area, i be you will find a good deal if it looks like that from the inside

 

it looks like one of the other owners befor me had ran something over and tore up the metal uner there

 

yes that rust is very common, just got done fixing mine, if you have that, be prepared, both sides will be like that and the floor boards will be rusted also, that hole may even go outside behind the fenders, you should pull the carpet and see how bad it is and fix before it gets worse, some sheet metal, tools, welder and eastwoods rust encapsulator works well

 

how hard is it to fix i can weld (thats what i am going to school for) any idea on how long it might take to fix?

 

i only worked on mine on the weekends, took me about 3 weekends, i cut the bad metal out, took a wire wheel to the floor and welded in new panels, you'll most likely have to take the nose off, i'm telling you that it rotted right throuhg to the outside, and then i covered everything in eastwoods rust encapsulator, and seam sealed with the eastwood seam sealer

heres some pics

 

ok thanks i will try to fix it if i ever get a place to work on it

 

my friend and i just got done fixing rust in that same exact spot earlier today, welded in patch pannels fabed up from sheet metal, wasen't too bad since we already did the insides of that area last summer