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Hoping for some advice. I bought this 94 Formula knowing it was rough.
I just pulled the interior as it was rough and a little damp. Ran into floorboard rust, gotta figure out how to address that. It has been a Florida car it’s whole life, but it gets wet and humid down here. K Member, subframes, quarter panels, rockers and torque arms are very solid.
Do you think patching it or fabricating my own new panels would be a good way to go. Or finding a donor car?
Thanks!
Last edited by cardude43; Jul 1, 2019 at 07:48 AM.
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Hoping for some advice. I bought this 94 Formula knowing it was rough.
I just pulled the interior as it was rough and a little damp. Ran into floorboard rust, gotta figure out how to address that. It has been a Florida car it’s whole life, but it gets wet and humid down here. K Member, subframes, quarter panels, rockers and torque arms are very solid.
Do you think patching it or fabricating my own new panels would be a good way to go. Or finding a donor car?
Thanks!
just get a donor car there are plenty of junkyards out there. Is the rust that bad?
Take a flapper wheel and clean it up to see how bad it really is. Unfortunately, its usually worse than you think.
How does it look from underneath? Are there perforations? Is it flaky all the way through? If so, you'll have to cut and weld in floor pans.
If not, clean it up from up top as advised above, coat it with POR-15, and build it up using All-Metal or similar product. On a car like that, I wouldn't go to radical surgery unless it's a rare model or you have some special attachment to the car.
Case in point, I did the above treatment to a rusty trunk pan on a daily driver 69 LeMans and it lasted well beyond my time to two of my kids who each had it for their car.
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1994 Formula Floor Pans 
