Technical Barchetta floor panel

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Technical Barchetta floor panel

Marnix

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Hi. I am Marnix from Belgium. Now that our Barchetta is about 15 years old, and is getting into seriuos trouble getting parts, thought it time to join the forum. I somehow end up having all FIAT group cars, apart from my wife's Barchetta having inherited a Punto II from my father (only the 8V 1.2, not really a high performance car), and Alfa 33 inherited from my wife's father, and two Lancia Fulvias (one coupe '68 and a 2C Berlina from '64).


Now to the trouble: the floor plate is heavely rusted through, mainly at the sides. The trouble is not coming from below, as it would be with other cars, but from ABOVE (water getting in between the plastic floor and the metal floor panel, and the protection at the inside of the car probably not being very good - water trapped between the plastic floor and the metal floor panel, and no way to escape or evaporate. Not a very big problem for a serious workshop to fix, wouldn't it be that a new floor panel (part No 46724842) is no longer optainable (as many other parts for the Barchetta :( ). Any advice on second sources? Help would be appreciated.
Thanks a lot, marnix
 
The design with the floor pan doubleing the lower part of the sill is really bad. if it is mainly rusted along the sill you may be better off having a strip of the floor custom made and spotwelded to the side of the sill in stead of underneat the sill as the originaldesign. Probably the inner sill is gone too. this can be fixed the same way. Profile will be straight so not hard to make. Check out the inner wheel arches and other parts before you start the floors. Wheel houses are a real nightmare to refabricate.
 
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