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Project Forums => Hot Rod Hebmuller => Topic started by: Geoff on November 17, 2004, 10:33:08 AM
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The past week I have had a few nights to work on the car, mostly the heater channel area and rear 1/4.
Here is a shot of the Eng compartment. I used a firewall section from another car and instaled it upside down. This worked very well and with some fussing all the ribs line up.
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The stock heb rear hood hinge looked to be a problem. The orig used something close to a front hood hinge, this created a problem if I run dual carbs. This made me look at other cars and what they have, Turns out a Toyota pickup has just what I need. These are very compact pocket hinge type and work well.
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Here you can see the hinges in place with the firewall. This is just a test fit there is still a lot of work needed in the rear area.
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started work on the running board delete, since I'm not running fenders I needed to fill in the panel below the door where the running board once sat. This took some time to get correct, the door has a slight arc to as you can see in this pic the panel needed the same arc.
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Here is a more complete shot of the body with the heater channels filled.
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The car is now a jig saw puzzel of pannels, this is a better shot of the 1/4 all filled in.
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The rear 1/4 top of the door needed some work. Once I welded in the cap on the end it left the rest open. Here I started off by filling in the top with a small pannel.
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here I have added a radius to the filler, next a large inner pannel was made.
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Here is a shot of the inner area that I have just started to work on.
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I also started work on the inner air box for the crotch coolers.
Looks like I'll be able to get the pass side 1/4 done tonite as well as the air boxes.