best way of chopping out firewall ?

[jimbob-mcgrew]

thinking about chopping out the firewall, i wanted to know if theres any welding / strengthening that needs doing to acompany this, or can u just chop it out ? also, whats the best way to go about it, cut along the line low down.. and then grind it flush and slap some sealer stuff over the bare metal ?

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll227/photon_09/15.jpg

[L14MNP]

Please don't cut through the air cleaner assembly. Foreign bodies will enter your Novas internals and abuse him :(
Where is Meriltlover when you need him? lol

[trackdaynova]

just use a grinder, or a plasma cutter :thumb:

[Martin]

you could leave abit of lip to overlap(inwards) so you culd give it a few switch welds and it will look neater then just choping it were the lineswont be str8 lol

[novahotrod]

mate i cut theese out on all our hotrods
it isnt a problemunless your strut top isa lil rusty on the drivers side if so just plate it all up i normally cut bits out of the bulkhead to make the plates....

[BIGS]

i used a screwdriver but recomend something faster lol

[burgo]

grinder ftw

[krobinson]

Don't do it, it looks pants unless its a dedicated track car.

Keith

[Dar]

I agree with Keith. It's not worth doing unless it's a dedicated car. However there are two stages you can go to.

1) Cut down to the obvious line where the firewall meets the rest of the car. This leaves about a 3/4" lip. I put some edging over this so that I didn't have any sharp edges. This just requires either a grinder or some tin-snips.

2) Cut the whole bastid lot out and weld up the seam. ala
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC08256_640x480.jpg

[jimbob-mcgrew]

nice one :thumb:

[burgo]

how is it not worth doing? it takes 5 mins, costs **** all and makes the engine bay look much tidier

[AlexW]

Agreed. when i come to fit power steering i will be choping it out.