That is pretty cool and I would have never thought of anything like that.
Thank you, I got the idea off the youtube channel of hotrodhippy. It worked ok, still a lot of hammer and dolley work though. It might work better if there wasn't so much crown to knock out.
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Worked more on the firewall Saturday. This time on the driver inner cowl. Lots of cutting old stuff out, fitting the new panel, some English wheeling, welding, and grinding. Still have a few small areas to finish up, but I’ll get to that in a few weeks when I get to work on it again. I think I’m going to put the driver tulip back to factory looking and put my wiper motor back there like I had it.
I finished off the day putting the dash in. I need to fit a 3 gallon dry sump tank somewhere and I’m looking at the area in the corvette frame in the passenger footwell. There is a toe board there that ties the frame to the inner frame. I’m thinking I can cut out the top section and build an access panel on the bottom for oil changes. I’ll have to move the HVAC module to the middle of the dash, but it looks like I’ll have the room to do it. There is about a 5” deep area where GM put the fuse block and BCM so that gives me a bit of room to work with too.
I’m going to have to widen dash about 2” to get to the door jamb and lengthen the side panels. My other option is to build out the door panels to meet up to the dash. I’ll figure it out when I get the door mounted back up.
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Saturday was kinda a waste of a day for progress. I worked most of the morning on the driver firewall trying to figure out how to build it and look good. I ended up throwing all of the templates away because it looked terrible.
I did cut out the section I've been thinking about for the oil tank and made a mock up tank though. I think it will work out very well there and now I just need the actual tank so I can move forward on the passenger side of the firewall. To make it work the HVAC has to move over. Since I have a Vette dash there is a ton of room to move it on top of the trans tunnel and I still have tons of room for electronics if I end up putting anything behind the dash.
Feeling like I got nothing done I built the console mount so that I could say I at least got something done.
EDIT: Not sure why some of the pictures turned upside down as they are right side up on my computer.
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I'm at a point on the firewall that I need to order an $800 oil tank, so we're going to take a break from that and focus on cheaper projects that still need done lol. I moved back to the passenger wide body quarter. After I got the old panel rough cut off I got the new one stretched to match the driver side, a little over 2" more than I had to start with. After lots of on and off with more shrinking of the flanges both sides are the same distance from the dame datum point on the frame, the contour gauge also lines up on both sides from measured distance points. So its pretty much ready to be welded to the car now.
After getting the quarter where it needed to be I went to work on the outer wheel tub. My bead roller bent the flange with the shape the finial tub need to be and then lots of shrinking to make it actually look like the right shape. After some small adjustments I marked the cut line and cut the old tub apart. With the new outer panels fit up and the use of a few clecos to hold it in place it was time to tack it in and again, recheck the quarter fitment.
With the quarters in the right place I rough cut the bumper cutouts to see if the bumper was still going to fit. It actually fits better than it did before.
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