Between work and my son's baseball schedule I somehow found time in the last two weeks to continue repairing the rust on my Z.
To finish the strut tower repaired I started by making a repair panel, drilling holes to mimic the spot welds and finally spraying it with weld through primer.
Then I sprayed some weld through primer on the strut tower....
Welded it up and did some light grinding...
And finally primer with etch primer, filler primer and painted with what is suppose to be the color the car is painted, but as you can see it doesn't quite match....to be fixed later,
Now while I was doing this I noticed something that concerned me. The bottom of the front frame was not sitting straight when I compared it to the other side. I outlined the place in question in red.
So it was time to fix that, after some investigation I found that some idiot does not have a clue on how to repair rust. You do not use machine screws and a metal plate, this does nothing to fix the issue, I hope someone didn't call this 'Professionally' repaired. This has me concerned with the rest of the car's work, but so far this is the only incident of this crap I have found. So I cut out the crap workmanship along with some more rust to find the frame rail with some surface rust on the inside.
So I vacuumed it out after knocking all the scab off and then proceeded to convert the rust using rust converter and the paint with Eastwood's frame paint.
I made a patch plate out of 16 gauge metal to match the plate that was around the sub-frame mount and decided to just extend it the rest of the way to save time.
Finished it up.
Now there is only one more spot to fix on this side. That stupid metal plate/screw mess was covering a hole in the drivers side frame rail where the sway bar mount is. Of course I have to take care of it as well and at the same time I will be trying to rebuild the sway bar mounting bracket as most of it was either gone or cut out by yours truly.
Cut out the bad metal...
Picture of sway bar mount.