… I put the welder on it.
I’m a tall guy. Stock buckets in an AE86 are impossible for me now that I have decent standards, and any off the shelf seat mount always leaves me saying, “moar lower.” (you know I never say that) After buying some Recaro LX’s, giving up on them, and now picking up some unknown FRP buckets I am really impatient to get back behind the wheel. But do you remember, that my seat rearward drivers side seat mounts were pretty messed up? On the outer rear mount, only 2 of… 7? spot welds were actually doing anything. Thirty second with a drill and it popped off clean.
Underneath was this mess. Notice the tear in the floor on the right side. Five years ago I would have taken out the baseball bat… but now….
…I can make this and tack it on. Here is where I forgot to turn the gas on. And here is where I started scratching my head and wondering if I should really be doing this. Meh. What is everyone calling their ratty, rusty beat cars these days? Boro Boro? Nope… that was five years ago. Now we say wabi-sabi. Yes. Rust and deterioration is beautiful. Not my intention, but it helps me continue on and feel good about it. After this: weld the detached mount back on… 50% of it with the gas off.
On the inner rear mount, this had happened. I could have just bought some big washers and run a bolt through the hole with a nut on the other end… but I ground the hole out a bit, pounded it flat, and welded the old nut back into place.
And then I ground it down and welded this piece of 18 gauge sheet over top. You can’t even tell anything happened on this side.
Dude, coupe is beautyful, random hidden rust repair is totaly cool.
Also fixing crappy spot welds is a good idea.
Your coupe will always be the nicest in cowtown.
ps I’m sorry, I sold your extention to paulbooze