Infamous 914 'Hell Hole' Repair Begins

This part of the 914 is often referred to as the Hell Hole because of its propensity to rust badly. The battery sits on a tray above this area. When rain water mixes with leaked battery acid it washes down into this hole and rots the hell out of it.

The previous owner had done some nasty 'repairs' which I needed to cut out and re-do. Here's the PO's 'repair' job being cut out. It was really bad and not connected to anything, so the Long was pretty badly compromised and had no rust proofing and was already beginning to rust again..

Here are pics of my repair work..the hole and the patch.

 I removed the section above and re-repaired the hole..here's the hole:

Here it is patched up:

Part way ground and primed..still plenty to do, including finishing off the lower part of the Long in the pic and patch up the huge hole in the bodywork above!