floor pan build?

[beatupbronco]

whats the likelihood of getting someone to weld me a new foor pan as opposed to purchasing one? good idea? horrible idea?

 

[S_bolt19]

It is pretty easy to do, if you don't want the ribbed floors then just have someone cut you some steel for them. Then you can cut out the old metal & weld the new stuff in. Either way, if you have them custom cut or if you buy them, they are a pretty simple repair.

 

[Broncobill78]

whats the likelihood of getting someone to weld me a new foor pan as opposed to purchasing one? good idea? horrible idea?

Sure, that can be done. I've put in a couple myself, the first one I did with the rivet-gun was pretty ugly but it worked and I also did one by just welding in some steel diamond-plate. The floorpans you purchase have the advantage of maintaining the original floor contour so you don't have tp mess around with the seat pedistals and your knees aren't riding up too high but any competant fabricator can easily reproduce the basic contour for you. The only real problem you'll run into is the fact that you WILL have to fabricate the original contour and that will take time, and when you're paying someone by the hour, well........ So sometimes it's actually cheaper to buy the floorpan new or hack one out of a donor truck because as expensive as you might think they are, paying someone for the *time* it will take to reproduce one gets expensive fast. It's cheap & easy to just weld, rivet or even bolt in flat-plate but without the wells for your feet you have these huge seat pedistals and your head is rubbing the roof, either that or you have to cut fred-flintstone holes in the floor for your feet & the pedals. If you don't maintain the factory contour then you have a whole new bunch of issues to deal with and if you DO maintain it then you have to PAY someone to reproduce it. I guess at the end of the day there really aren't any free lunches, you can pay now or you can pay later but one way or another you're gonna pay.

If you're just replacing pieces of it here & there then that's a different story, cut your patches to fit & weld 'em in. But if you're talking about replacing the entire floorpan then that can get into some significant fabrication. It's not difficult work, just time consuming but like I said, when you're paying someone by the hour............

 

[rodsteal]

Of all the weird shapes and parts that the average fabricator might have to build, I would say the floor boards of an EB would have the be some of the easiest, minus the ribs. That being says, I don

 

[beatupbronco]

thanks guys. any more comments would be great.