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Old 08-06-2020, 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by dataway View Post
So far so good, learned a bit doing the first one. Rule number one, don't grind through the weld you just made and have to fill that hole too. Obviously a trained eye is going to be able to tell it was done ... dead giveaway is that the OEM pan not one piece, the pan has a lap joint to the cowl section which these replacements don't have.

Just ordered the pans for the back floors one of them I'll only being using about 20% of the pan, the other maybe 30% ... but, easier than trying to fabricate them myself.

Any tips on a good oxide primer to sort of match the OEM stuff? Most of the products I see are too much of a red/brown color than the reddish stuff I see from the factory.
SPI red epoxy.

Don

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