Has anybody had to replace their floor boards, and how much am I getting into. Also can I find them any cheaper than what they are in the nextgen mag.

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Edelbrock 14" open element, Flowmaster exhaust

 

Try Ebay, I found great deals on parts there.

 

Check with The Paddock and Classic Industries, it seems like one of them had them. I looked for my catalog, but couldn't find it.

I crawled up under my car the other day and noticed some serious rust at the edge of the rocker panel - or is it the door sill. I poked at it and felt, surprise!, carpet. Does anybody know if the floor pans extend all the way to the door sill?

 

here in canada, they go for over $600 a side
(full length floor pans)

 

When you find them, save yourself a ton of time and trouble and glue them in. Use 3M metal bonding and enjoy.

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Kenney
82 Trans Am WS7 notchback
83 Trans Am WS6 T-tops
72 Vista Cruiser 455
90 Olds Trofeo
80 K-10 w/snow plow
Painter @ Chevy dealer
GM junkie

 

I think the rust is too close to the edge to glue mine. There would have to be some overlap to make it work right. What might a body shop charge to prep and weld floor pans if I've already stripped the seats and carpet? Just a guess would be cool.

 

$500 ish. There is a guy south of Atlanta who owns an independant body shop right next to a Macco who does fantastic work. I can't remember his name or the name of the shop however. You could bend a patch 90 degrees up to the rocker and glue it fine. The new floor pans should be bent to fit along the rocker anyway. If your going to weld, don't forget to take out the headliner too. The metal bonding glues are amazing. Sliced bread. If you glue two pieces of sheet metal together, and pull them apart when dried, the metal will rip before the glued joint will. Thank you aerospace industry.

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Kenney
82 Trans Am WS7 notchback
83 Trans Am WS6 T-tops
72 Vista Cruiser 455
90 Olds Trofeo
80 K-10 w/snow plow
Painter @ Chevy dealer
GM junkie

 

www.nextgenparts.com has them for $209. Will the glue hold up good enough?

 

Mike,
You are getting yourself into one of the easiest metal replacement tasks there to replace on a car, provided you can weld, have a cutting tool and know how to make patterns. Because it is a floor pan, that gets covered up by carpet, the quality of your work is not a big concern.
Personally, I would go to a junk yard and cut out the metal pans that you need. This way you get more metal than you need and pay a lot less. Body panels can be chiseled out with a large hammer, a couple of good sharp chisels and a halck saw. Cu the floor pans over sized so you have more than enough metal to work with when you get home. Trim the rust from your floor and cut the replacement pan 1/2"-3/4 bigger to over lap the cars floor pan. Go around the outside of the replacement pan and drill holes every 3-4". The holes in the replacement pan is where you should mig weld the new panel into the car. A note of caution about welding in computer controlled cars, the computer should be unhooked to avoid welding voltage from damaging it. After the pan is welded in place, a seem sealer, calking or the metal glue mentioned previously should be used to seal and fill in the seems. I have never heard of or seen the metal glue mentioned, but because the car is a unibody which draws strength from the floors pans, I would weld them in. This metal glue sounds like snake oil, but I have never used it. If the factory used it, I would be inclided to use it to, but to glue an important structural part of the car together sounds like trouble asking to appear. After the pans are welded in, you can grind the welds doen some, but not too much. Then paint the floor pan with a high quality high solids rust prevention paint.
I have replaceed entire floors by cutting out the pans out of good junk yard cars before. By taking out the pan yourself, you also get the added benefit of getting floor braces you may need with the pan.
Hope that helps

 

I am going to do my floor pans within the next month. For starters if you are replacing the a full side then you will need to remove alot of ****. I would also recommend that you do the rocker panels at the same time. Also keep an eye open for the brake lines an dthe gas lines. The run under the tunnel. in order to remove the old floor boards I had to remove the interior of the car. This gave me lots of room to work and not worry about damaming anything

 

The Paddock has them from the toeboards all the way to behind the back seat for $199.95 per side.