I stripped the interior out of the black GTE to prepare for the floor pan replacement.

All the old insulation and padding that could be flammable was removed because there was going to be a lot of cutting welding and flying sparks when the floors are being repaired.

I removed the pedal box assembly as well so I could rebuild it.

It probably has never been out of the car, but could use a good cleaning and inspection.

These pedal boxes were overbuilt by Ferrari, and rarely wear any of the internal parts. The bearings only needed a good cleaning and repacking with fresh grease.

I needed to rebuild the pedal box so Mark at the Panel Shop could reinstall it in the car and use it to properly align the frame rail to support it. The original frame member was pretty rusty and the previous repair didn’t help, so we’ll be using the pedal box to get all the frames and bracketry to line up properly.

The next job was to remove the fuel tank. Since the fuel lines were getting disconnected, we felt to would be safer to remove the whole fuel system with the amount of welding we were going to do do under this car.

I could tell from the red colored washer material insulating the fuel tank mounts that this fuel tank had probably never been removed from this car its whole life.

Heavy undercoating was sprayed under the car, so getting these fasteners removed was a little challenging!

With the fuel tank out of the car, this GTE was ready to ship out to The Panel Shop for the floor pan work. It’ll be back in several months for the next step in getting this car safe and road worthy.