Photo / advice needed front floors again

[Paul02]

Is there supposed to be a strengthening piece on the underside of the front floors where they start to curve up into the front wing / bulkhead area ?

It may look like a box or a piece of angle welded on the bottom . Sorry for the bad description but I have not seen this on my car but on picture no 1 of Svens recent reply to my last post I can see what I think my car is missing . Could anyone show me a close up of this area .

Cheers Paul

 

[Sven]

Paul -

Are you talking about the two pieces in the lower right of the ApillarBase photo? I am not sure what their purpose is. Maybe a drip edge for the wheel well? or protection of the fuel lines as they run behind the vertical piece? Reinforcement? Unfortunately, I cannot get a photo of this area with the car on the ground. Maybe someone who has their car on the lift can take a few shots.

 

[Paul02]

Sven I think that is what I am talking about bearing in mind on my car it is not there . Is that the same piece that is visible in your photo on my thread from the other day in your picture ww1 .

If so is it worth or essential to replicate this piece as we have the floors out now or just put the new floors in and don't worry about this piece.

Many thanks for your help
Paul

 

[Sven]

Yes, it looks like the same piece. I do not know anything about its importance. It is a bit like a small mud flap. The vertical piece is easily bent. Hopefully someone else can chime in. It would not be hard to fabricate. The flat piece has a couple of tabs bent up 90°. The cross piece is flanged at the top with a small flange at the bottom. It might be best to visit one of your UK coupe colleagues to take a closer look and get dimensions, etc.

 

[arnie]

Paul,

I did a couple of pictures of my actual "E9-puzzle". If I understand it correctly you're searching for this area :

http://s1160.beta.photobucket.com/u...rt=3&o=0&_suid=135470260786204438039982586873

I did this piece by myself and also just had pictures in the net (you can see it here for another impression: http://e9coupe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5282 )

for the design and a certain clue of the dimensions of it. The flat piece isn't for sure not a big deal. I did it 10 by 11cm for the base surface, if I remember that right. The more advanced one is the connection part to the bulkhead, because it's not rectangular in any direction :-x Don't ask about dimensions. You have to make a template anyway. Please don't ask me about the funktion of this. I can't see any ...

Hope this helps

cheers

Ingo

btw: Take a look through my Resto - thread here in this forum or take a look of all the pictures in my libraries on photobucket. Should be some interesting shots for your further process. (Probably)

 

[Paul02]

Thanks fellas
Sven I think you are right that the piece you show is protection for the fuel lines and Arnie I think the bit you show is on the opposite side but I can't think what is supposed to be for ? Cheers for the pics and links
Paul

 

[John Buchtenkirch]

My best guess (and admittedly only a guess) is that’s a reinforcement for lifting the car with a twin tower lift that’s so popular in dealerships today. Some mechanics insist on lifting cars by positioning the pads on the 4 arms under the rocker panels. While there used to be a frame rail positioned just inside of the rocker panel on American cars that’s still no excuse to lift uni-body cars from that point, all it does is crush up the bottom of the rocker panel and close up the rocker drains. It’s un-professional to say but some mechanics & body men are just mutts :-o. ~ John Buchtenkirch

 

[eriknetherlands]

Pics from this location of the E9 in BMW museum

Just visited the BMW museum last week, took some pictures of this spot as i will probably tackle this somewhere in the coming years....

for your orientation, it's the right front wheel well, looking towards the rear. You can just make out the fuellines and the black (screwed on !) rocker panel.

I have other pics of the e9 on display, also from the M30 engine on show. Just ask.

Hope this helps.

included 2 other pics to get you through to the weekend...

 

[Paul02]

Some great close ups , thanks
Paul

 

[m_thompson]

Next time you visit, show them where the screw is missing from the rocker cover.

 

[kasbatts]

What's with the rocker / sill cover moulding on this car?? That dosn't look even close to original.