Building custom cars in my backyard

Now that the botom of the frame has been painted, I can turn it back over, upright. There are a couple of things left to do before paint.

I now have the shifter cables in their correct location and will probably have to lengthen the cables. I have also partially mounted the e-brake cable. You will see that I will have to change this later.

I now have everything to complete the radiator assembly. I am using a 3400+ CFM fan to cool the 3SGTE stroker down. I will mount the fan to the radiator using long slender screws and rubber bumpers.

I now have everything important lined up on my plywood firewall. Both the clutch and brake master-cylinders are in their final locations and the steering column has been installed. I will now transfer all of the markings onto my steel and proceed from there.

2 New slide shows see page: MR2 VW bug pics page 6. MR2 VW bug pics page 6

I now have the VW bug front firewall constructed out of steel. I traced the outline from my foam-board template. I will strengthen the firewall with a piece of 2x2 angle iron and then I will attempt to place the MR2 pedals.

Before I reinstall the newly painted VW bug dash-board/steering-column support members, I need to create the foward fire-wall. I will mount all of the pedals and various other things to this plate. It appears that I can just bolt the fire-wall plate to some of the existing sheet-metal from the original VW firewall.

With the VW bug dash panel cut and fit, I must now remove all the support pieces and paint everything. I am pouring some of the rust bullet down inside the rear part of the fender wells. There is some rust down in there and I hope to convert it all with this rust converter. [...]

I cut the steel dash-board stiffing plate from 18 ga. steel. This plate will be screwed on with 9 screws, 4 on the top holdin it to the original VW bug sheet-metal and 5 holding it to the new steering column support. This plate should add a lot of strength to the entire assembly.

I am now building a re-enforcement plate for the dash board. This plate will help stiffen up the dash-board/steering-column support. I will first build a template from poster board and then transfer the profile to steel. I will cut the steel and fit it in place.