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Help with Floor ... all rusted

3K views 19 replies 11 participants last post by  Gregg-O  
#1 ·
hey like the title speaks for itself, my floor of my caprice is completely gone, i was wondering if they sell floors that can be welded on, or if theres patches that can be welded on?
 
#3 ·
^^^The only place you can get replacement parts is from a junkyard. Southern ones have nice metal, but the floors are a pain to cut out, because they do not have power at the sites.
 
#4 ·
Thing is I'm all the way up in Montreal ... Canada , and cuz of all the snow we get here during the winter and with all the salt on the roads lol any car I find in a scrap yard , the floors are usualy all rusted... I was hoping they sold new floors like they do for enough old muscle cars
 
#7 ·
A good body shop can make the parts out of sheet stock. It will probably be a little pricey, but they can do it. Someone on the forum had some made, I do not remember who or where, but it was since the crash, so you should be able to search for it.
 
#9 ·
I welded half a 91 florpan to a 96 rusted out and it took a weekend to do it all, from trunk to front firewall, all the holes welded up with donor caprice roof and quarter panels metal

Its doable but there another thing you will have to consider.

If the floor is that gone, it means ALL the bodymount support plates on the body are rusted out and failed. thoses are not easy to fix and even most body mount bolts will brake out.

3 years later when I got in a fender bender and scraped the car that got floor welded, when cutting the car in half i was shocked to see that the whole car was holding barely to only the middle body mount on each side.

Most of the body frame rails will be far gone in rust too.

Welding it will be band-aid it for a while but its too far gone to my opinion.

The car I'm driving now got off the road in 2001, and i fixed all the rust floor issue with stainless in autobody school, it was quite involving.
 
#12 ·
ima look around the city this week for stainless sheets, but theres sposed to be a body shop near me, for the price this guy specializes in building brand new floors for any car, so ill have to check that out
 
#13 ·
That would make it worse because you would be shooting up more onto the pans. Fool.

Your only option would be to find a different DD while you cut out metal too far gone, weld in new metal and POR15 everything. My car is a DD and my Drivers side pans are eating away slowly right by the pedals. Other than that, I am in pretty good shape with all things considered. I'm sure down the line, some company will start making sheetmetal floorpans.. but don't hold your breath.
 
#18 ·
I noticed that you are in Lachine. If you do find a shop to make floor pans, please post it here. I'm not that far from there, and would be very interested in some info.


Thanks....
 
#20 ·
Two others word's : new car. I have a floor pan you can have.....$10k, You can have the rest of the car for free. NO RUST....gotta love this AZ dry heat....lol.