topic says it all
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Feb. 23, 2011 5:09 p.m. longhorndude New Reader
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Feb. 23, 2011 6:33 p.m. Junkyard_Dog Dork
Call Blake or Willy at BTDT racing or visit the ebay store. They're good guys.
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Feb. 23, 2011 6:46 p.m. jrw1621 SuperDork
"Best Way"?
Most stuctural - new metal or complete new tub.
Cheapest - expanding foam sanded down and painted over.
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Feb. 23, 2011 7:03 p.m. Tom Suddard SonDork
Sand down area
Cut out rusty metal
Trim replacement panel
Weld in
Grind
Sand
Paint
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Feb. 23, 2011 7:50 p.m. joey48442 SuperDork
My Process?
Step 1, Drive to Hotlanta.
Step 2, Meet metalman, buy tub.
Step 3, Rebody Miata over course of winter.
Step 4, No more rust!
Joey
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Feb. 23, 2011 8:24 p.m. kellym New Reader
Fly to California, choose from 1 of the hundreds of thousand rust free miatas we have, drive home, foam/bondo over old rusty car and sell for more than you paid for your new rust free car from CA
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Feb. 24, 2011 4:59 a.m. willy19592 Reader
we have some very nice repair panels http://btdtracing.com/gallery/v/Parts/rear+quarters/
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Feb. 24, 2011 6:05 a.m. NOHOME Reader
As someone who routinely restores rusty MG shells, I must say "Welcome to the club"!
Took ya 20 years, but if ever there was sign that the Miata will be a classic, it i s the fact that people are making rust repair panels!
Best way to repair is to cut out the rusty area and but weld in a repair section. Make sure you are able to coat the weld bead from the backside or it will be the starting point of new rust.
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Feb. 24, 2011 6:36 a.m. Raze Dork
I'm with NOHOME on this one, WELCOME TO THE CLUB! Funny that 'the answer to every car question' now contains rust...
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Feb. 24, 2011 9:22 a.m. Sofa King Reader
If the rust gets into the fender lip above the body line it is probably best / easiest to buy a repair panel. If the rust is below that, it is pretty easy to fab your own patch panel out of sheet steel. Home Depot carries suitable pieces for about $8.00. I have done 4 cars making my own panels and they all turned out pretty well considering my limited skills. I have even discovered that the cheap bead roller that I bought from Harbor Freight has a die that matches the body line of a Miata exactly!
Most of the rockers that I have done also required some replacement of the inner layers. also not too difficult, but make sure you cut out all of the rust and replace the structural layers!
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Feb. 24, 2011 9:35 a.m. mad_machine SuperDork
NOHOME wrote:
Took ya 20 years, but if ever there was sign that the Miata will be a classic, it i s the fact that people are making rust repair panels!
Or that they rust in the first place?
Now they just have to belch magical electrical smoke
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Feb. 24, 2011 9:58 a.m. Keith SuperDork
Well, they don't usually smoke when the main relay goes out, but the car does fail to proceed.
It's amazing what a couple of decades of aging will do to a car. I realized last summer that my Dad's 1990 Miata is now older than my Mom's 1964 MGB would have been when I was in high school. And when I was in high school, a 1964 MGB was a old car!
