Chevy Nova Floor Pan Patches 

Awesome!

Thanks! Little bit of seam sealer will make it look even better.

Thanks!

Awesome. Lots more stuff coming.

Why are you screaming?

Should be this Saturday.

Thanks Vation!!

That’s what I’m hoping to build it for. I paid $400.

@@Shop209 ah, got it

Shop209 on Facebook. I frequent shows in southeast.

Kinda but not really. The part of the floor that connects to the trunk floor is a pain but mainly it’s the torque boxes that the front of the leaf springs mount to. Getting them off old floor and re welded to the new floor is a ton of work. Definitely a better result though.

I didn’t weld all the way around. I put stitch welds about an inch long all the way around. Then seam sealed. It’s not a lot of work to go ahead and weld completely but I figure when I’m finally finished with this project whoever ends up with it might want to put in a new floor.

@@Shop209 Thanks for the help. It's really appreciated.

No problem at all.

Thanks. I’m isinglass rustoleum rust reformer. It works great. On floor pans and trunk pans I’m leaving an overlap on the panels. You can butt weld but it takes a ton more time to get panel fitted close enough and the patch panels aren’t exact.

@@Shop209 Thanks, that's the direction I'll go. I appreciate the response.

There was still good metal from the floor pan on the rocker. I left about 1/4”.

@@Shop209 Yes thank you very much for the reply I wasn't sure if I was going to crawl under the car and try to plug well that flange back to the rocker because the piece of metal that's attached to my rocker the Flange is still in good shape so I just wanted to see if somebody else just cut their flange off their new piece and welded it back to the existing flange on the rocker , good stuff !! I think I'm gonna don't it that way myself ,just seems way easier to do it that way then to crawl under the car to try to weld it with the subframe in the way

Yeah also man sorry about the misspelling sometimes I'm doing voice texts and I don't look back at what it says until it's too late sorry

@@Shop209 Hey what's going on man I took your advice and I trimmed just the flange right at the bend so I can reweld it to the existing flange on my rocker anyhow I got a RU-vid channel the videos aint very long they're not as good as yours but it's called Texas garage you can take a look at the floor Pan if you wish alright Brother thank you Is for your help

I put a link to them in the video before this one. They were available when I posted link.

Depends on what I’m doing but usually rustoleum rust reformer. It converts the rust to iron phosphate. Then I paint over it.

I disagree. Some people just want to get an old car patched up good enough to enjoy driving it. That’s the point of this build. Thanks for watching though.

@@Shop209 they say these old cars are a rich man's hobby and it's kinda true that way. The main market for these cars are guys like me who grew up in the 80s and will spend the money for a clean properly done car or a rust free mid west car.

I have a 69 that I’m doing a “proper” restoration on. All new panels and will have zero rust when it’s complete. I will have close to 1200 hours in it when done. Some people just want a $7500 car that looks cool. It’s ok that what you want is different but I don’t consider it a waste of time to patch a car up instead of making every inch new again.