Another Targa sarga

[hot66]

Fantastic repair panels there

[maxakarudy]

Thanks everyone for your comments

Another difficult panel to let in without making it looking obvious, lots of flanges that have to be spot on & butt joints with zero gaps, there was a big hole roughly cut for aftermarket aircon..

[stretch]

Quality work Martin. Enjoying this thread.

[maxakarudy]

A major update on the trunk area, loads of new metal added, a few pieces handmade, but mostly repair panels

From here



To here..

[911hillclimber]

Wondered what you have been doing for the last few days!
You need to clean the workshop now!!

Great progress; you will be done by the end of October.

[maxakarudy]

Wondered what you have been doing for the last few days!
You need to clean the workshop now!!

Great progress; you will be done by the end of October.

Thanks Graham,

Yes it's been a busy week! & Christmas is the target for primer,

Re the workshop, unfortunately I'm very untidy & folks have to get used to that

[911hillclimber]

Said tongue-in-cheek!
It is hard to keep things tidy at these stages, off-cuts from tin snips and clipped MIG wire bloody everywhere, usually found using the knee caps when working low....

[maxakarudy]

Left hand footwell repair....

Wusty bit



Having made the flange first allows me to use the original panel as pattern, so I can get the shape
The aim is to make all surfaces touch, before cutting the rusty section out



Tig welded in



Metal finished

[maxakarudy]

Targa repair,

Wealy wusty....



Inside/underside


The outside guttering offered up for fitting



Then cut out the old & in with the new..



The underside was a lot more complex to repair, a multi bend section on an arc, checking the accuracy of old against new



Once happy with the test piece I made length long enough to complete the repair



And all welded in...

[911hillclimber]

Fantastic!
That targa bar repair is great.
Do you have a shrinker to get the long curves?

[maxakarudy]

Fantastic!
That targa bar repair is great.
Do you have a shrinker to get the long curves?

Thanks Graham,

This was one of those make or break repairs for me on this car, I didn't know if I could successfully make those complex pieces & be happy with it, only alternative would be to find a good used one, as it happened it worked out ok.
Yeah I've got a shrinker & few other tools

[Dougieboy1]

makes me realise how unskilled i am.... fantastic work!!

[maxakarudy]

makes me realise how unskilled i am.... fantastic work!!

Thanks mate

I hope my thread inspires diyers to boost their goals of restoration, all of my work is achieved through many screw ups, sleepless nights & lots of swearing, I've learnt no shortcuts

This little piece was just bashed out freestyle over any shape I thought might get me to where I needed to be, it's piece of the floor near the brake master cylinder



Now this is quite a fiddly panel to make, could have been pressed, but way too effort for a one off, so made all the shapes & welded them in...







up close

[911hillclimber]

What part is that Martin?
My doors were very poor and took a lot to get them presentable, never use Dansk skins, but that was 28 years ago.
Maybe they are better now?

[maxakarudy]

That panel goes under the rear cross member, slam panel, it just screws on, no structural benefit

my doors weren't too bad, didn't require reskinning luckily