Wanting to know/how to smooth your fire wall

[storked82]

HI GUYS
I need a little help Im wanting to take out my heater blower motor ect To clean up my fire wall/I have never done anything like that before and was woundering what all is involved this is on an 82 silverado PLEASE I NEED PICTURES Also do they make a plate to cover up the hole? and do you leave your heater coil in ?

Thank you guys you are the best

Jeff Main

[dv8customs]

As far as I know there is no one making filler plates for your year model firewall. If you don't plan to keep your heater then you would need to remove the heater core, otherwise you are going to have the inlet and outlet sticking out of your firewall for no reason.

[nrider]

I've actually been thinking of this too. I really don't need air or heat but I'm wondering what all is involved. How far have you gotten with this project storked?

[silvereagle07]

There are some trucks in the build thread area with smoothed firewalls with pics.

[storked82]

Rider

I havent started on it yet LOL I was woundering how much is involved in doing it? Im the type that needs pictures or hands on to beable to do it lol
Some one can tell me all day long and I just dont get it I guess that comes with age or? I just dont like the looks of it just hanging there and not hooked up I hope some one out there can shine some light on this for me

Take care Rider and good luck on yours

Jeff Main

[nrider]

Thanks you too. I think it just comes with experience and not being afraid of tearing something up, something I've been working on here lately. I'm hopefully going to start a build thread this weekend and I'll put up pictures if I give it a try. Oh and btw, are those metallic blue flams on that c10, they look real good.

[storked82]

n rider

Those flames on my truck are purple.The paint came from Napa and is VERY expensive .It is made by semour I cant think of the last name The yellow is called banna yellow and it came from Napa also That would be cool if you take pictures of you removeing the heater ect to smooth out the fire wall .

Take care
Jeff M

[flamingbig10]

I just used a piece of sheet metal

[Dropped84GMC]

i know alot of people around here on racecars and such just use a peice of sheetmetal and paint on their club name or anything else just for a little touch..

[MONTEZ]

Make a template and transfer it to a piece of sheetmeat around 16 ga would be fine. Fit it to your fire wall. Mark places to drill the sheet metal for tack spots. Take it back off and drill the tack holes. Fit it back to the fire wall and tack it on. Fill all tack holes with weld. Grind smooth. Finish with putty. Sand and paint.

In a nut shell.

[3r!c84]

wheres your wires flamming10

[Lonnies Performance]

I built one out of 12ga so it would remain totally flat without distorting & welded studs to the rear so it bolted in through the existing firewall holes.

Tried to do this without cutting up the factory firewall so it looked factory.

[Rogue_Sentinel]

Porterbuilt Street Rods make one for the 67-72 firewalls,trying to get him to make one for the 73-87

http://c10forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5680

[storked82]

Thanks Guys

For the pictures and info I wish someone would make these to fit 73-87
Im not good at fabercating LOL My truck is going to the body shope on the 26 of this month to have the door jams repainted and some touch up work So after that is done I might try and see if I can tackel this on my own

Keep the pictures comeing

Jeff Main

[flamingbig10]

Originally Posted by 3r!c84

wheres your wires flamming10

there hidden except for the wiper motor wiring, the wires are routed through the floor board by the emergency brake cable

[blazer2007]

I did mine with a piece of sheel metal and weld in some threaded studs on the back side and used adhesive around the edges so no water would get in and siliconed around the edges that was paintable from a paint shop[need special stuff] and if I ever decide to put heater back in can take the panel out,was very easy ,just use cardboard template and a grinder

[ERBSIX]

No heat or A/C? Are these all trailer queens?

I think Vintage Air is going to be the only way for me to go.
Their system is incredibly small for what it puts out.
Of course, everything is under dash, but that's easily hidden.

Makes the engine bay look very clean with just those 4 hoses running into the firewall on the passenger side.

Truckin did a great article on a Vintage Air installation in the Pickup Fixup Tour.

Here is a pic of the firewall. The four hoses on the left are all you need.
Very clean, neat and easy. That's what I want. But it's also pricey.

Related Truckin Article

[ERBSIX]

Here is another example of a very clean vintage air under hood setup.

[ERBSIX]

To be back on topic:

User smokedat has some great pictures of how he created a paper mockup and cutout a firewall cover from sheetmetal.

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