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originally posted in:The Garage
12/23/2016 6:29:01 AM
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Found rust in my Porsche 914 not sure which route to take....

So my 914 was having trouble starting. I narrowed it down to a wiring problem. I decided to take apart the interior to track down any issues. Anyway after doing that I discovered rust and a lot of it. I knew my 914 had rust but not this much. I pretty much need a new floor pan. I'm also sure there's more rust elsewhere too... Honestly I don't know what route to take. Sell it and wait for a nice 914 to come up later in life? Sell it and get something different for the same money? Keep it and fix it the best I can and drive it till I can afford to do it property? Or go balls deep and dive head first into a full restoration. What do you guys think?
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  • Looking at those pics it actually doesn't look so that bad, you got a few options. Your floor is very flat so it would be very easy to repair. You should and out the rust and see how bad it is. If those couple of holes are all you got they would be easy to patch. Even the part of your frame would be pretty easy to fix. You would need to know how to weld though. If you don't already, I highly recommend taking a course at your local college. You would be able to fix it all during the course and would have some professional help along the way. Even if the rust is really bad, because the floor looks to be basically just a flat piece it would be super easy to cut out with a grinder and weld in a whole new floor. No need for a specific floor pan for your car. Then you'd just need to repaint it. You'd also learn some very valuable skills of you took a welding course. The other option is you can find a shell for your car on Craigslist that has already had all the body work done on it. That would actually be a lot more work though to swap every part of your car over though and your VIN numbers would no longer match, though I don't believe that is much of an issue on a 914. If you went that route though, I'd look for a Porsche 6 body and maybe a motor as well so you could have a much cooler car after all that work. So it really depends on how you want to handle it, if you want the upgrades it might be worth it to find a whole new car as well. It really doesn't look all that bad! Good luck!

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