Day 9 (continued) - Repairing driver side floor pan (March 20th, 2015)

Kosta and Ernest showed up as I was finishing the pans, they gave me a hand to push the shell back in to the previously warm garage. Before the welder arrived (as a precaution), we decided to reinforce the shell by welding temporary bars between the A & B pillars. We also tried our hands at repairing a patch behind the driver seat, I think it went pretty well given our lack of experience and Mastercraft welder. Ernest loves yelling “EASY, EASY, EASY!” while we pound sheet metal to shape.

Ernest hooked us up with a welder, his wife’s cousin Ardo (who owns his own shop http://www.avfabrication.com/, they do some crazy shit there), he agreed to come help us out with a house call. As you’d expect by the name AV Fabrication specializes in fabrication, custom parts, headers/downpipes/exhaust and some freakin’ crazy builds/setups. His "uncle" used to own a body shop so he brought him along for his bodywork wisdom. Ardo gave us some directives on what to cut and strip from the driver’s floor pan, while he and Kosta prepared the donor floor pan for (non-sexual) insertion.

Side note: Pete (a former Volkswagen club, buddy) dropped by at the same time that they arrived and there was a lot of confusion going on so I didn’t get to chat with him too much. However, he did compliment me on my retarded wooden dolly though

1 Greek working, 3 Armenian inspectors

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Just passed 10:30pm we decided to call it a night, Ardo gave me some instruction on how to prep the passenger donor floor pan, so it would be ready for his next visit. I took care of that over Saturday and Sunday, while I was working in front on Saturday a metal collector drove by and luckily the metal sparks caught his eye, I managed to unload all the scrap pieces so that worked out well.

Day 10 (a few hours) - Prepared Passenger side floor pan for welding. March 27, 2015

Last week I prepared the passenger donor floor pan for (sexual) insertion, I marked the cut-out on the floor and dropped it off at AV Fab (to patch up the holes on it)... Kosta cut out the pan and I grinded all around it so it’s ready for Ardo’s work (Ernest choked at the last minute). I'm a little worried we may have cut too much and Ardo won't be happy with us.

Before I got to grinding the floor pan (and while Kosta was cutting)...I was cleaning up the area behind the front fenders for some Por15. I discovered a few more unpleasant surprises (as mentioned in "Minor Rust", everything looked sound but let me tell you, bondo is a deceiving bitch.

On Saturday I cleaned up some parts for Por15’ing at a later date. Pedal box, pedals, brake booster, brake booster bracket, exhaust/gas tank heat shield

things are feeling very long

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