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Smooth Firewall
Has anyone here smoothed their firewall? I've still got my motor out and decided I'm going to clean up the firewall before the motor goes back in. I've had the heater assembly gone for years now and it was just covered with a piece of aluminum screwed over the hole.
I cut out a piece of 16 gauge mild steel this past weekend and I'm planning on covering the entire passenger side so the firewall will be smoothed out. I'll post pics as I go along.
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1964 Malibu SS, now a LS1 and T56, Back halfed, rollbar, narrowed 9 inch, 4.11 gears and 31x16x15 Mickey SSR's on Weld wheels. |
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Actually sounds like a cool idea. I think it would look good.
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I've done it before. It goes a long way to clean up the looks under the hood. Clean all the seam sealer out of the joint and throw a few stitch welds in there to keep it tight before you mud over the seam.
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Alan 1964 Chevelle SS Speed's expensive, how fast do you want to go? |
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I've got everything stripped and out of the way
Here's the piece of metal I'm going to weld over the existing firewall.
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1964 Malibu SS, now a LS1 and T56, Back halfed, rollbar, narrowed 9 inch, 4.11 gears and 31x16x15 Mickey SSR's on Weld wheels. |
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That should look really nice when you're done.
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Alan 1964 Chevelle SS Speed's expensive, how fast do you want to go? |
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I had time to work on the car today. When I pulled off the passenger side fender I had a bolt rusted that decided to seize up in the nut so I had to cut it off to get the fender out of the way. Once the fender was gone I removed the door to get to the upper fender nut above the door hinge. After an hour or so of fighting with the broken piece I finally got it out and welded a new nut in it's place.
new fender nut welded in. The next step was to get the new firewall piece tacked into place. All welded up and ready for some grinding And mostly ground down. Little bit of grinding and a small amount of body filler will be my next step. Hopefully I can get some more work done in a couple weeks.
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1964 Malibu SS, now a LS1 and T56, Back halfed, rollbar, narrowed 9 inch, 4.11 gears and 31x16x15 Mickey SSR's on Weld wheels. |
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Like the saying,it's your car do what you want with him.
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I'll be doing mine real soon... not completely sure if I'm going to do a whole new panel like that or just fill the holes.
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Derek Kiefer, member of Minnesota's Northstar Chevelle Club 69 Malibu Pro-Touring - 69 SS396 3spd - 23 Model T roadster pickup |
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It looks great so far, Rattler.
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Alan 1964 Chevelle SS Speed's expensive, how fast do you want to go? |
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Looks nice and clean .
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