65 Restomod engine bay question

[65Rob]

Please forgive me for this question, I'm pushing the boundries of nuttiness with this. I'm painting the engine bay body color (like it really should have been originally ) Anyway that's not the issue, it's the rather ugly cowl to firewall seam, there's 3 layers there and this odd extra flange on the right in the picture.

I want to clean it up, cut that piece off, weld all seams together and basically make it look natural, currently I find the whole area sticks out like a sore thumb which will only look worse once it's all in paint.

Have any of you restomod oriented guys done this?

 

[5.0Droptop]

I do not see any issue with cutting and welding it.

I had a 66 coupe with efi from a foxbody in it.

 

[mtaqua]

Where would you bolt the export brace to (or the stock brace). Otherwise cutting and rewelding probably should be fine. I'd do a little at a time as the piece might open up if you cut it all off at once.

 

[65Rob]

Where would you bolt the export brace to (or the stock brace). Otherwise cutting and rewelding probably should be fine. I'd do a little at a time as the piece might open up if you cut it all off at once.

The export brace bolts to the large, "side to side" flange, I'm not looking at cutting that out, I should have been more clear. In front of the 1" or so flange is an 1/8 - 1/4" gutter and a protrudding 1" x 6" or so flange that sticks out from the gutter part.

What I was going to do is weld the 3 seams together, cut off that extra flange that looks like it should have a tag on it or something and then clean it up so it doesn't look so messy.

 

[65Rob]

I do not see any issue with cutting and welding it.

I had a 66 coupe with efi from a foxbody in it.

Me neither just wondering if anyone had a particularly good way to clean it up, I hate being a pioneer

 

[restomoded66]

Please forgive me for this question, I'm pushing the boundries of nuttiness with this. I'm painting the engine bay body color (like it really should have been originally ) Anyway that's not the issue, it's the rather ugly cowl to firewall seam, there's 3 layers there and this odd extra flange on the right in the picture.

I want to clean it up, cut that piece off, weld all seams together and basically make it look natural, currently I find the whole area sticks out like a sore thumb which will only look worse once it's all in paint.

Have any of you restomod oriented guys done this?

Hi, Here a pics of mine, shaved and welded.

 

[5.0Droptop]

That's sharp!

 

[5.0Droptop]

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[5.0Droptop]

Thought I share my old restomod

 

[65Rob]

Hi, Here a pics of mine, shaved and welded.

Awesome, that's the way it should look, nice and tidy!

Thanks for the pic

The 66 below looks nice too, I've toyed with the idea of dropping in a 5.0

 

[5.0Droptop]

I miss mine.