Rust advice

[daledoe]

I have an 87 with basically no rust. The other day I had the rear end up for the first time in a while and noticed this....

So my question is how much work is going to be involved in repairing this??

 

[Jimbo]

basically no rust?

 

[daledoe]

Thats the only rust on the whole car!

 

[hvyman]

Might want to take a much closer look. Looks like the whole rear end has rust.

 

[IJ.]

For each bit you can see there's 10x unseen.....

That's structural I wouldn't spend a single cent on that shell Dale.

 

[daledoe]

Might want to take a much closer look. Looks like the whole rear end has rust.

I live in Maine, every car up here older then five years has rust!! I had the rear suspension and axles out last summer and it looked fine. I had the interior out last year as well and there wasn't any rust coming through. The pinch rails don't even have rust and aren't bent! Its just that dam spot :icon_mad:

 

[Canuckrz]

The only thing to do would be to sandblast it with a coarse media and go from there. From the looks of it you might need to find a new shell unless you're really handy with metalwork.

 

[daledoe]

HHmm, I know this guy who's great at body work. he restores old cars. I think I'm going to have him look at it and then I'll go from there. Thanks for the input

 

[mk3sons]

I live in Maine, every car up here older then five years has rust!! I had the rear suspension and axles out last summer and it looked fine. I had the interior out last year as well and there wasn't any rust coming through. The pinch rails don't even have rust and aren't bent! Its just that dam spot :icon_mad:

i would have to disagree i live about 10 mins from Maine and i bought my supra in Maine without a spot of rust on it.

 

[daledoe]

I bet you don't drive your car in the winter or if you do you wash the salt off it. I've had two supras, My old roommate has two, and my other friend has one. Out of the 5 supras one is in perfect shape!!

 

[Koenigturbo]

I bet you could get a shell cheaper than you can get this repaired.

 

[Poodles]

Depends who you know, shells are getting rare...

 

[Athena]

Depends who you know, shells are getting rare...

So you should get one while you can XD

 

[Poodles]

LOL, my point was it may be cheaper to repair than to replace the shell.

 

[IJ.]

As I said I wouldn't spend a cent on that it's beyond saving in any economical way.....

Give it 6 months and it's just going to breakout somewhere else and with added power it's just going to be a deathtrap... :nono:

 

[kotu100]

http://maine.craigslist.org/cto/1689788941.html

here ya go, no rust 5 speed turbo for less than 3 G's

its easy to find a rust free shell around here, just keep an eye out.
i found mine on a subie forum for $100

 

[daledoe]

shells are getting rare...

Ya The last 4 supras I looked at up here were in real bad shape!! I need to get one from a more sunny state with no snow and salt.

Give it 6 months and it's just going to breakout somewhere else

I can't find any? I went over the whole under side of the car last night with a screw driver trying to find more weak spots by pocking at it. It sucks that its only rusted out in that spot

 

[Koenigturbo]

http://maine.craigslist.org/cto/1689788941.html

here ya go, no rust 5 speed turbo for less than 3 G's

its easy to find a rust free shell around here, just keep an eye out.
i found mine on a subie forum for $100

I bought almost a complete car for a hundred bucks, stripped it for parts sold the rest to a scrap yard for a hundred bucks.

 

[Jimbo]

I can't find any? I went over the whole under side of the car last night with a screw driver trying to find more weak spots by pocking at it. It sucks that its only rusted out in that spot

you want it to be rusted out in more than just that spot?

 

[Heavy D]

whats why you spray rubber undercoating, i live in MA and i know how bad it gets, but even still, my car is not that bad in rust, i just have bubbling, which its been taking care of. but every car i see, has rust. nissans are the worst