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Kenova wrote:I've seen wheel barrows of various sizes used to form the indentation of the firewall.
All of the hard to make curves are there, you just cut away the parts of the wheel barrow tub that you don't need and weld it into the firewall.
Ken
HAULIN' IT wrote:A fellow I knew some years ago had a wagon that had the whole firewall moved back & was done well. A 1" or so lip in front of the cowl vent panel (that you see when the hood is closed) in the jamb area was left & the sides of the waterbox/A-pillar was cut back to this spot & boxed in. The floor was just cut off straight down from this point also. So the top of the cowl (with the hood off) was only 1" forward of what you see with the hood on. The framerails were plated where the side tin was removed & bars at an angle with the door bars came through the firewall to sit on the subframe connector & now exposed area of the stock framerail that would have been just outside the firewall originally. So the firewall was one flat piece with a 90* bend coming forward on each side to the original firewall area out the width of fender to fender. Now the interior area looked the same, (the angled area of the floorboard was just shorter) but was just 7"-8" shorter front to back, Understand?
The dashboard was in the stock location, the dashbar was just under it & they had mounted the modified brake pedal swing bracket off of it. There was minimal clearance behind the dash. The seat & column was back a few inches from stock.
The engine was moved back about 4" from what I remember, however the firewall was back much more (about 7"?), leaving the bellhousing area in plain sight. I think it was using early Camaro headers, but don't quote me on that.
It really opened up the whole deal to work on. If I had a hacked up car or was building a race-only car (no wipers, ect.), it's exactly how I would do it...The cars almost look like they were designed to have this done Lorne
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