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04-06-2008, 11:21 PM
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Shaved Firewalls
Howdy again, got some more work done today which is good. Hoping someone can clear something up for me. All the smoothed firewalls in a lot of the pics posted look like the groove between the actual firewall and the cab have been filled in, cut out, or something. Do you just grind down / cut off the lip on the firewall side, fill in the channel with sheet metal, or what. Thanks as always in advance.
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04-06-2008, 11:29 PM
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Re: Shaved Firewalls
For my firewall Kevin, welded on strips of sheet metal to cover the channel. I believe that is what most people do.
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04-06-2008, 11:32 PM
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Re: Shaved Firewalls
cap it....with sheetmetal!
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04-07-2008, 12:17 AM
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Re: Shaved Firewalls
We did mine by capping it with a thin strip of sheet metal.
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04-07-2008, 12:17 AM
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Re: Shaved Firewalls
I hope you dont mind, I want to add a question...
if you fill in where your heater core was, are you just redrilling new holes or just not running heat/air? (again Im NEW) |
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04-07-2008, 12:36 AM
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Re: Shaved Firewalls
DrtyJack75.....if you go to my build thread.you can see how i did mine......which is pretty standard to what every one does........
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04-07-2008, 02:40 AM
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Re: Shaved Firewalls
Exactly what I was looking for, you guys rock
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04-07-2008, 03:10 AM
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Re: Shaved Firewalls
Cap it for sure...
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04-07-2008, 03:28 AM
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Re: Shaved Firewalls
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04-07-2008, 10:13 PM
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Re: Shaved Firewalls
My bodyman trimmed the channel off with a cut-off tool, tacked the seam back together where he had cut it off and filled in the passenger side to "match" the driver's. I think it turned out great. Sorry I don't have any pics of the build process but here are a few of the finished product.
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04-08-2008, 01:21 AM
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Re: Shaved Firewalls
C-10 Driver, your firewall looks sweet! super nice detailing under the hood as well.
Ray
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