[Todd in vancouver]

So I continue my quest to flatten the firewall so I picked up some 18 gauge to start making my own template and weld in piece.


After looking at a bunch of other builds on Pro-Tour I took the jig saw to my firewall and swiss cheesed it.


Starting with some cardboard I built a template for the tin so it would match the firewall how I wanted it


Traced out the cardboard template onto the tin


Voilà I have a rough metal firewall layout

A little trimming to get it to fit how I wanted and drilled a couple holes for the fender mount bolts and it is ready to weld in



The firewall is ready to be installed and it's time to start welding it in. As I haven't done any welding in a long time I thought it best to take some of the sheet metal cut offs and do some practice welds before I start on the car.


Once I was warmed up I started small stitch welds around the new firewall;