Heres some of the subpar quality projects I've been doing, nothing holds a candle to the stuff you guys normally put on here, but a lot of this is my 1st time at attempting some of this stuff.
Being 6'2'' normally makes it hard to sit straight up in a car with a cage, so on the 240's I've always had my head near the cage. Never liked this and it was hard to motivate myself to build a car knowing I wouldn't have headroom.
Or wouldn't I?
Got ambitious after the hammering/patching didn't work, so just went for it. Worst case scenario I'd learn something, and have to redo it.
Grabbed the Plasma cutter, and went for it.
Cranked the welder down to 1, and didn't burn any big holes. This is my 1st thinner sheetmetal project, and I was pretty careless with it as far as measuring. Normally I'd just cut the approximation I needed, and hammer something to make it fit. I know this car is going to get stuffed into a wall, and its just another lame LS1 powered 240sx (everyone has one nowadays), and its under the seat, so I had a really really difficult time trying to force myself to care, because on this car I didn't. If it was the Camaro it'd be a different story, but I have a real love/hate relationship with this 240, haha.
Got the 1st piece in, and test fitted the seat, and I had about 3'' of clearance with a helmet on. This seemed like it was going to work.
I got reallly lazy on the other side as I put the seat in, and had a ton of room, and some scrap metal laying around. Cut the piece a tad too short and didn't want to waste any good metal on this car, so one side has a nice 90* meeting of panels, and the other is one that is bent. Like I said, its all under the seat and I didn't care, and its my car so I'm allowed to cut corners on making it look perfect. Will function absolutely fine. I'm only trying to justify myself because normally the work on this forum is top-notch, and by some of the work pumped out here, I am not sure if some of you have any lazyness that might result in this, haha.
Here is a comparison of what it looked like before/after with the passenger side. I made a lot of room to lower the front and also by moving the rounded edge on the trans tunnel into a hard 90* that helped a LOT.
All of that crap you see is bondo, that I realized after I mixed, had just put resin hardener into. Couldn't figure out why it was the wrong color...
So I got to make a huge friggin mess.
Then decided that it was again, under the seat, who cares. Threw some primer over the welds, and declared victory on the task of creating headroom.
Also decided to try to play with filling in cracks on a dashboard. Still got a lot of sanding, but it seems to have worked. I just plastered some on the other day to fill the last of the rough spots and haven't had a chance to sand it down yet.
Lastly, I bought some new things for the shop.
If you're still reading NOW, congrats! Suprised you made it this far!
And yes I know, the shop is a mess, and its kind of embarrassing.