[sammons]

FATnLOW glad your feeling better, those summer colds can kick your butt. My problem is I think to far ahead and when I get to that next step...plans change. Hope your plans are better than mine!

Vette, I guess i'm all Chevy. Just 20% Corvette.   Opps, I guess that's not right. The roof insert was a Musss, can't say it (brand starts with a F).

[sammons]

Had other plans.lol  I woke up with fuzzy vision, so driving this morning was out. So, back to the console. Finished up the stereo box, hammered out rounder corners and welded it in. Then onto the console lid where I needed to change out the power window switch holes. The orig GM whole was smaller and square, new switch was larger and more rectangular.
I first cut the switch pockets from the new cheap looking abs plastic holders and filed them down to minimum.  Then held them over the gm holes to mark and cut out. Once fit I put masking tape on the front side of the holes so the cold weld epoxy wouldn't squirt out. Then put the epoxy into the hole and pressed down into with the new pockets. Then put more all around the inner base. Let it dry sanded and laid down the vinyl wrap cover and trimmed. 

Heres a couple pics

[FATnLOW]

Looks good ..I like what you have done on the console

[TFoch]

Sammons,
Nice work!  Looks like you're going to have a lot of leg room in that coupe.
Tom

[sammons]

Thanks guys. Fatnlow I thought the stereo bump was going to look like a big red monkey butt.    I think keeping it as shallow a possible might help a bit. It will have to do for now. I'll be getting a black face stereo later, the silver one is just my old mock up unit.

Tom it's actually got alot. I can slide the seat all the way forward and just touch my feet to the firewall.

[62131]

Sammons I like the console looks great. what seats did you use to get so much room for the console?

[sammons]

62131, I used the Vette floor pan, seats and console. That's why I had to widen the front of the body (at firewall) 7.5", and that allowed use of the Vette frt crossmember.

[62131]

I just went back and  read the first of your build thread,

[madmike3434]

62131, I used the Vette floor pan, seats and console. That's why I had to widen the front of the body (at firewall) 7.5", and that allowed use of the Vette frt crossmember.

I was looking at your dash in place pictures and thought, whats going on here??
That dash is really wider, cut right in the middle and  a piece added.............huuuuum. 

oh ya , I remember he cut the whole car down the middle and made it wider .

Very trick.........mike lynch     

[ghost28]

sammons that car ought to be real cozy for those long rides with all that leg room and creature comforts.

[FATnLOW]

Now that the heat, a/c unit is securely mounted I'm finding out what doesn't fit. The original planned location for the stereo now doesn't have enough depth, the fuse box location also. I wanted it to the right side of the console with a cover for easy access.(fuse box) So i'll have to build a box to space the stereo out and on an angle. Built that, but have tosink it yet. I like the angle, just not sure of the look yet, gonna need some round corners before i'm happy. The glove box is only going to be 4" deep now also. Still in thinking on new fuse box location. It will all have to wait as I have other things to do this weekend.


Steve decided to go with swing pedal and booster on the firewall,,,thought it would be easier,,got it all installed  now have to contend with finding another location for my fuse panel as the swing pedal altered my planed location for the fuse panel ,basically not enough room.....maybe a console off the center of the firewall on the trans  hump......yet again might end up under the seat  or on the drivers kick panel,,,,wherever I located it has to be easy accessible.......

[madmike3434]

on my 1935 stdard 3 w coupe I put the fuse panel under the seat on passenger side where the stock battery would be. I bought a deep lasanga dish backing rectangle thing in cooking dept and mounted the ron francis panel in it.  Battery got relocated to the pass side trunk in a marine box.

Yup , also ran 34 master dash with glove box, installed air unit and 4" deep is all that's there for glove box.

I made a wood box 10 x 10 and covered it with top insert upholstery, mounted the radio cd player into it along with a remote for the 10 disc cd changer in trunk, right in front of seat in middle at max distance seat can travel.  I put it there because I found that a custom made consul running from dash did not give me enough foot room.

you can run all the wires down the kick panels and thru floor into the lasagna tray. make sure you use o-ring sheet metal  grommets for wires to run thru.

mike     

[sammons]

Quote FATnLOW
Steve decided to go with swing pedal and booster on the firewall,,,thought it would be easier,,got it all installed  now have to contend with finding another location for my fuse panel as the swing pedal altered my planed location for the fuse panel ,basically not enough room.....maybe a console off the center of the firewall on the trans  hump......yet again might end up under the seat  or on the drivers kick panel,,,,wherever I located it has to be easy accessible.......
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Ed, thanks alot. Haha, now I remember I have to figure that out. Been busy with other things.
My fuse box (Speedway) won't fit in my kick panel, it's to thick (sticks out 3/4"past). I just looked again , I don't have much room under dash on the pass side once the glove box goes in and the 2-a/c lines and 2-heater hoses ( and they all will go through the ledge,  bottom portion of the silver insulation). If the frt wires on the harness are long enough I can mount mine behind the console. I have to fab that up anyway because I added 10" to the length of the Vette floorpan. I just don't want to splice the wire harness for length.  I guess I should lay it out and see?

Your choices sound good, yep they have to be easy access these days. I'm not going to contort around on my head/back anymore to change a damned fuse!

Mike, wish I could but..........ain't no room under my seat!

[madmike3434]

Oh ya, you done seriously messed with stock interior plan.  My seat is moved back so that rear package shelf is only 5" wide, think its 8 " farther back than stock.

Re the air con.........after installing a vintage air system but never charging it, I found with the vent open and the rear window rolled down, there was no need for air and it gets 80--90 here thru summer with tons of humidity.  I just use the air con system heater motor and hoses for the fall nights when it might get chilly.

Secret is the firewall is sealed with that aluminum backed insulation , sprayed with 777 glue.  The same material is also on the floor along with the nascar bubble center double aluminum sided stuff on top, sealed the floor. It works , but you guys deep down south get some killer heat and humidity and it may not be enough.

mike       

[sammons]

Yep Mike, all changed from original configuration.  it didn't start out that way, but certainly ended up. I had no idea how much would change from when I got the shell. Would I do it again?  Hell no, way too much work!

Originally my late Uncle (during build options) had talked me out of a/c. He said that my '57 did't really need a/c. I had insulated the crap out of it, and even with it being black, it wasn't bad. But it got air flow from above the headlamps, and with the vent windows cracked it stayed decent. Many trips across the Mojave to Calif in it.

But after loosing the option of a roll down rear window (due to rear suspension and other mods) and removal of the big vent windows,  gonna need it now. When it gets well over 100° for at least 2months during summer here.(and me turning into a wuss)