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72 Satellite floor replacement

tunnelrat81

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So this is what I'm dealing with. I bought my car about a year ago in hopes of fixing it up and driving it. It's my first musclecar and I may have gotten a little over my head. I knew the trunk pan needed replacing but when I took out the back seat and ripped up the carpet more rust and upon closer inspection the right frame rail is also shot, however I only paid the guy $1000 for the car so I knew it needed work. Shortly after finding the rust I realized how expensive replacement panelsare, so I found a 73 in a junk yard an convinced the guy to cut the car in half. Witch was a score cause he did this for only $250. Now here is my problem. I got the half car reduced to nothing but floor, frame rails, and the tail panel. Since my car needs at least 1 rail should I just replace both with the spring connections? If so how would you support the car? If not how should I proceed? The 72 hasn't been cut on yet and I'm reluctant to do anything until I get some professional feedback
 
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I would recommend going over to the "Member restoration threads." A lot of us there have replaced rails or sections of them and there's a bunch of good real world jig, braces and reinforcement pic's to give you piece of mind. As far as your scenario..A couple questions. Is your '72 on a rotisserie? Did you plan on putting the car on a movable jig or keep it stationary with stands? First thing you want to do is arm yourself with a ton of pictures/drawings and reference measurements before sawing anything apart. That's a huge part of coming out on the winning end of things when all said and done. From there it's a matter of how the car is going to be staged for working on. If it's on stands, use a plumb bob, tape measure or laser measure to take reference measurements. On a rolling jig, sorta the same except measurements to the jig or build the jig up to meet the old metal and use as a template for the new. On a rotisserie, well take 4 times as many measurements to include a ton of muti-directional measurement, because you will have a limited amount of stationary measurement references (car itself).
 
I was planing on supporting the car on stands and keeping it stationery, but when I pull the entire under carriage outthe only place for stands is mid car. Is that a bad idea? I will definitely look at the member restoration threads and thanks for your help.
 
Hey no problem. Tough one....Basically you're talking about halving the car instead or replacing piece by piece. Got to say that's going to be a fun build. Detmatt did something sort of similar with hid Junkyard Dog ('68 Roadrunner). He replaced the entire rear core with a donor section. His thread is over there as well. Good luck and keep us posted. Sounds pretty cool.
 
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