Floor pan replacement on a Speedster...is it difficult?

I was wondering how difficult would be to change the floor pans on an already completed Speedster. As you all know, there's a set method for floor pan replacement in bugs with the body on and some people specialize in it. Has any of you done it to a completed Speedster? Thanks.

Ricardo,

Replacing floor pans in an exsisting built Speedster is possible but not a "shade tree" at home job.
On a scale of 1 to 10 scale I would rate it as an 8.
This really needs to be done on a chassis style lift.
I did do a pan replacement on a Speedster in my home shop with the Speedster jacked and blocked up approx 22" from the shop floor and that took 2 plus days with much cuss'in with no room to work and trying jockey a pan around under the car was at times, a near impossibility.
The second time I did a pan R&I, I upgraded the venue and off I went with a case of Coors Lite as bait for free after hours lift time good bs session and an extra set of hands at a friends body shop, we knocked that job out in less than 7 hours...Just in time for a midnight tapping of the now cold case...I did the shortening of the pans in the car as it was easier to work with the smaller cut down sections when working with the body on the chassis . Also spend the extra bucks and buy OEM German pans and not skimp on a thin gauge Mexican/Brazil pan set....Per Tim "Tool-Time "Allen ...measure twice cut once.
Alan M.

Hey Alan, thanks so much for your informative reply; just one more question: how did you shorten the pans in the car? At least as per CMC's manual, the cut is diagonal (actually a V shape when looking from the top or bottom); how did you measure it? Thanks again!

Check out Chris Sutton's excellent story with photos about building a speedster kit from scratch on the home page. It has a sectionabout cutting the frame.
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