It's no secret.
For weeks now I've been vacillating. Pissing, and moaning about lack of motivation, lack of material, lack of funds, lack of confidence.
Last night, after hearing me whining, the wife offered me some words of wisdom to help get me past my stalling point:
"Get over it!"
So I did.
I called Metal Supermarket, and confirmed that they had the type,and quantity of the sheet metal that I needed. They did.
I went to Harbor Freight first. I needed a windshield removal tool. I bought it for 19.00.
I went to my Car audio guy next, and bought the audio system for the car, one of the last major financial hurdles to jump.
A first for me, I bought a Pioneer non-CD head unit. Only capable of playing streaming media via either a hardwired "aux" in, or via Bluetooth. Because of the lack of a CD mechanism, it has a really short, light chassis that is perfect for the dash that has to be able to hide everything from sight w/o alot of ways to do that.
I bought a single Pioneer low profile 12" sub that is intended to fit under a seat, (mine will be mounted on the surface of the rear seat delete) a pair of Pioneer High dollar 6.5" component door speakers, and a Pioneer sub amp to drive the sub.
Then I went to the metal supermarket.
I got the 20ga. for the top and bottom of the dash, the SS perforated covers for the centers of the bars, and some 1/4" x .125 flat bar to use a s backer material for all of the converging steel. The guys at MS cut the stuff, and bent what I wanted bent. When dud asked how I wanted to pay, I said that depended on how much he was gonna charge me. he said 35.00.
I threw two twenty's at the guy.
When I got home, I got out the HF windshield removal tool, and cussed and bitched while trying to cut the stupid piece of junk windshield outta the car. I ended up heating the glass w/ a torch,.....it was the only way I could even get the knife to slide along the glass. In doing so, I managed to trash the newly painted cowl, but I finally managed to get that stinkin windshield out.
I moved the shattered remnant out to the trash can, and snagged the piece of steel intended as the top of the dash.
It was flat, and need to be rolled. Not having the means to do it correctly, I resorted to doing what I always do. I improvised.
I hand rolled the thing against on of the support poles in the basement. I rocked, and rocked that thing till there was sufficient crown in the thing, then trial fitted the piece. Once it looked close enough to start fitting it, I drew a cut line from underneath, and whipped out the cutoff wheel, and made mincemeat outta that mouse.
All I had time left for today was to put the roughed piece in place, and takes these couple of pics.
I am no longer conflicted on whether or not I'm gonna be able to make this idea work.