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Slow, but it's progress

I moved some things around and cleaned up the shop. Got started on the front-end.

I got the front frame sections and firewall, located them with the mounts that I made prior to tearing the car apart. I then welded them into place (checked everything with the frame specs first). Welding them into place consisted of installing the DSE connectors and adding another locator x-member on the frame table. Adding that x-member allowed me to remove the bolt in location so that I could bolt up the DSE front-end and check it for squareness, parallelism to the rest of the car. Since the upper locations were also removed, I could adjust everything to be right on prior to assembly it again. There is enough play in everything that you can put it where you need to.

Public service announcement - if someone wasn't very careful in putting a car back together from being torn down this far.......you could easily make a mess. I've probably been overly critical, but the alternative scares me to death. With all of the money I've spent on this thing already, I can't afford to ruin it!

OK - enough rambling - - Pics

This pic shows how I located the frame sections using a spare factory x-member.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NB...=w1080-h608-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/N1...=w1080-h608-no

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/WS...=w1080-h608-no

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/u6...=w1080-h608-no

Progress Brandon!! Good for you.

My favorite body style - don't know why I've never owned one.

Filling some factory holes in the kick panels and the cowl that I won't be using - fewer opportunities for leaks.

I used my Mittler Bro's powered bead roller. I'm getting better with it. These aren't real visible, so good practice pieces!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2q...k=w489-h869-no

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Tl...g=w489-h869-no

Not certain I don't want to just cut this one out and make it smooth after doing it. We'll see.......
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/80...=w1080-h608-no

View from the inside of the kickpanel.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/A7...Y=w489-h869-no

Next is to final weld in the firewall, inner-upper cowl and inner-lower cowl. I'll wait on the outer cowl pieces until I finish up enough of the cage to tie the from frame down bars into the cage.

I'm excited and nervous about getting more acquainted with my bender! Hoping to not generate too much scrap. I have a pretty pricey pile of 1 5/8" 4130 sitting in the garage.

Oh - - unrelated, but I decided to sell my 2002 Ford Ranger (beater truck) and my DD (wife's hand-me-down 2005 Ford Escape) and buy one good all-purpose DD. Ford had some smoking deals on leftover '14 trucks.......so...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/6u...=w1080-h608-no

Kind of a bit out of order, but here is the prep and welding on the DSE frame connectors. I'll snap a few of them installed next time I get out there. I cut off the parts off them that were cut to fit the factory floors since I'll be building my own floors.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pO...=w1440-h810-no

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Li...=w1440-h810-no

Great update its looking like a car again. Will you shave the cowl vents since you blocked off the fresh air doors? I think you might need door jamb vents are some venting to keep pressure from building in the car maybe?

Nice update, fitting it up and taking it apart will definitely save you grief later.

Brandon,
Great job on the build so far, its gonna be a great feeling to know what's under that paint when she's done. I had a question on your rear quarter panels... did your body line on the rear quarters match the door and front fender so far as thickness is concerned. When I say thickness I mean height wise. While I was building my dads 66 I ordered a set of Goodmark quarter that at the time was the best fitting out there and I found that the quarter did fit well but I found that the body line was bigger than my factory door body line. Wasn't sure if that's something you ran into or not. Continued success with the build, i'll be watch the updates.
Thanks
BB

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Originally Posted by Bad Bowtie (Post 608211)

Not sure if this is the dimension you are talking about, take a look at this picture. The body lines (in my opinions) are pretty good for aftermarket parts. My quarters came from AMD.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4S...=w1769-h995-no