Floorpan work
Posted on July 18, 2010
Filed Under Karmann Ghia
Well work is still ongoing, and moving fast finally!
I stopped my work on the body to concentrate on the floorpan, I wanted to put stuff back together again!
I’ve got pretty much everything I need to complete the floorpan apart from some front beam seals and the front brakes, but they’re on order.
Attention to detail is the order of the day. I’ll know what’s in this Ghia, and I want to do a proper job on it. The original gearbox bracket bolts were dropped in rust converter, cleaned up, and then I sprayed them with primer and enamel black which should protect them, plus they look good:
The gearbox bracket fitted, along with a new bugpack gearbox mount
Lots of other things, but no pics. In the pic of the gearbox bracket you can see some copper hardlines in the process of being fitted, and the brake master cylinder has been replaced with a proper OEM two circuit unit and fitted along with the hardlines up front.
Front beam has been refitted, awaiting now a seal kit, and this next week I’ll clean up the gearbox and paint it black to match everything. Then that can go on and we can get rear wheels 
Then hopefully I’m expecting all the stuff for the front so in the next 2-3 weeks the floorpan should be finished and rolling!
Then it’s back to the endless bodywork…
I also got a new shift knob for my EMPI Hurst-copy shifter… it’s a real pool ball that’s been drilled out!
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