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Question: Floor Board Drain Holes on 1981

91-Vetteman

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Richmond, VA
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1991 Blue Coupe
I am doing a full interior restoration on my 81 Vette. I pretty much have pulled everything out of the interior. When I pulled my carpet and padding up, I was surprised at rust chips laying around in the front floor board area. I guess this part of the car is not fiberglass. There were 1 or 2 drain holes on each side, they had nothing in them. I was going through a Vette catalog last night and I saw an item called floor board drain plugs. So, are these drain holes suppose to have plugs in them? ;shrug
 
When I stripped the compleet interior the only drain plugs I found where in the battery and acc. boxes behind the two seats.
Good luck with the resto!

Groeten Peter
 
This is the style "plug" used in all 4 drain holes on all of my Vettes. Original. More of a drain hose than a plug.
drain.jpg
 
Both of my '81s were different. The one I'm working on now only has drain plugs in each of the rear compartments as shown by mkapp7879. The front floor pan and the rear floor pan had plastic plugs like the ones found in the front cowl area.

The '81 I just cut up had tack welded plugs in the floor pans and the drain plug style in the rear compartments.

In addition Corvetts made after 1975 are made of a compound refered to as SMC (sheet molded compound). A fiberglass composit.

tcxd40
 

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