[sixball]

Looks good, I wish I had skills.

[62131]

The bent tubing looks great

[Essex_29]

Thank you all, chopper526, sixball and 62131. I'm pleased with the result so far, other than it's
taking way too long to get done!
The bent tube you may be referring to, is the corner piece. It is built from three pieces of sheetmetal, sorry
about the confusion. The bent tubes that I have rolled, and talked about in my last post, are the ones that
are almost straight, going along the top and the sides of the cowl.  The tube roller has been surprisingly
useful doing just that; bending tubes to a slight curve, so that they fit exactly along the roof line and whatnot.

I finally got the firewall welded and ground today. "Finally"... I have to decide what to do with the bootom edge
still, so it's not exactly done yet.
The radiator stay mounts are turned back and welded in now too, and all holes filled.



This is what it looks like when I rosette weld the spot wolds with mig. The holes are 1/4" and the mig is turned
up pretty high, to get nice penetrating welds that are fairly flat.



After grinding the spotwelds the new spacer and the front edge of the cowl got a coat of red primer.
The firewall is just stood inside the cowl in this pic. It's a bit low, but otherwise in about the right place.

[chopper526]

That looks great, just the way I would have done it......just not as good.

[62131]

That turned out really good, looks great

[TFoch]

Looks awesome!  Nice work!

[sixball]

This is quality & attention to detail the will be missed by most people who see it. Thanks for showing us how you are doing it. As for time, My roadster project is probably 30 years old and I have far less to show. 

[Essex_29]

Sorry chopper526, that I'm not up to your standards, but I do my best, I promise 
Thank you for the kind words, 62131, TFoch and sixball. Comments are much appreciated.

Finally (again?) got the firewall done! I'm not certain about how the bottom edge needs to be done, because
I don't know how to route the hoses and tubes to the heater, but I decided to do things this  way, and if
needed I'll make the necessary modifications later. One can't leave everything half-assed and almost-ready.



So now I have someting to weld to the cowl, and to start building my floor and transmission tunnel off.
The little impression or stamping  a bit off center just above where the top of the transmission tunnel
will be, is for the heater return hose, behind the intake. Like this:



Room for a hose clamp and all now.
The stamped sheet metal is from an earlier experiment, when I made a peak for the sun visor. The
"tooling" is made from 5mm sheet metal, a tad more than 3/16" thick.



The stamped part was cut in half and the halves were welded together. Fun to find use for a part
that wasn't used.
Here's the peak I made for the visor. Quite a segway, sorry about that, it just happened.

[chopper526]

Sorry chopper526, that I'm not up to your standards, but I do my best, I promise 
Thank you for the kind words, 62131, TFoch and sixball. Comments are much appreciated.

Finally (again?) got the firewall done! I'm not certain about how the bottom edge needs to be done, because
I don't know how to route the hoses and tubes to the heater, but I decided to do things this  way, and if
needed I'll make the necessary modifications later. One can't leave everything half-assed and almost-ready.



So now I have someting to weld to the cowl, and to start building my floor and transmission tunnel off.
The little impression or stamping  a bit off center just above where the top of the transmission tunnel
will be, is for the heater return hose, behind the intake. Like this:



Room for a hose clamp and all now.
The stamped sheet metal is from an earlier experiment, when I made a peak for the sun visor. The
"tooling" is made from 5mm sheet metal, a tad more than 3/16" thick.




The stamped part was cut in half and the halves were welded together. Fun to find use for a part
that wasn't used.
Here's the peak I made for the visor. Quite a segway, sorry about that, it just happened.

Haha, you read that wrong, Essex_29. I was saying I would have done it the same way as you did, I just wouldn't have done as good a job as you did!! By the way, that visor turned out sweet.

[sixball]

Very nice work!

[62131]

Visor turned out great, nice work

[TFoch]

Love the visor!

[Essex_29]

Thank you all for the positive comments!
Fun thing with the visor: Inside a week of my getting it done, a friend sent a pic of a 1929 Oldsmobile for sale, and asked if I was interested. It had a very similar shape in the center. I thought I had a totally original idea.




(Sorry for steaing this pic off the net)

[Essex_29]

Finally! (for the third time) the firewall is done.

Since the frame is bent up a foot or so behid the firewall (to make the front suspension work good at my planned ride height), I had to cut some off the bottom edge of the firewall so it won't touch the frame. Then a squirt of primer to keep it from rusting.
Hoping to have time to weld it in still today. It will be welded with rosette welds to the back side of the 1" spacer tube.
Nothing short of amazing what some paint can do.



I think I will have the firewall done a 4th time today. Maybe.

[62131]

Not to be disrespectful in any way, but that crescent was used a lot, Chevrolet used it on the 32 fenders