Hey Al, you cut out your entire cowl right? Now that the car has been on the street for a few weeks, any problems that you see creeping up? Have you been twisting the chassis much yet, or has it all been pretty easy cruising miles thus far? I'm just wondering how the windshield is holding up at the bottom, is there enough support in the remaining cowl/firewall area to prevent cracking etc on hard launches? Do you even see this as a consideration or am I just paranoid? I "clearanced" mine in the middle but after seeing your pictures it looks like you removed the entire thing and remounted the weather stripping at the base of the windshield. With my big hood I think I could make it look better without having any of the cowl there, not to mention it would help access to the master cylinder which is now WAY under there. The metal is at least trimmed around that area but the plastic covers the entire cap area making filling a PITA. Any thoughts?

 

Wassup Joe, hows the car running?

 

Joe, Joey, Joseph!

I am sure Al will pipe in shortly, but I was over the house Friday and no issues that I could see relating to the cowl.

 

Hey Dan, do you know if he cut all the way to the glass? Or how much he left at the bottom of the glass for support? I just want to finish these little things up BEFORE I decide to paint it. I don't think there should be any twisting with the 10-point cage in there, but you know I have to cross all of my t's and dot all of my i's before I decide to do anything. I've come too far now to start cutting corners... A few remaining minor details and I think we're ready to hit the track to shake it down... but it won't be before every nut, bolt and wire is checked, rechecked and triple checked.

 

Joe...I cant see any reason not to. I really dont think there will be ANY issues with the glass if you have subframes and atleast a 4 or 6 point cage. !0 point....pshhh...no sweat! If you didnt notice I believe Joe O has cut his in the same manner. I tried to follow the existing lip in front of the glass. Some parts stick out more..I trimmed those back to be about the same distance as the rest. Its about 3/4 of an inch beyond the glass. There is a support underneath and slightly towards the driver side. I left that alone. There is also a smaller support on the passnger. I left that alone as well. I call the space up underneath "The Caverns" Great place to relocate the coil packs and other stuff.

Ill be out this weekend. You can check it out then.

 

Oh...yeah....it makes the car HEAVEN to work on

 

Thanks a lot Al, let me know where "out" is these days and I'll stop by and hang out for a bit. I guess I can get to cutting then and start buttoning it up for a coat of paint.

On a side note, what flaring tool do you prefer? I'd like to redo my front brake lines again now that I moved the master cylinder, I just have way too much excess that I'd like to clean up but it was a PITA using my generic cheapie kit from pepboys or discount wherever I got it from a few years back.

 

Ah hell, all that extra metal is a waste. GM just puts alot of usless junk on the car anyways. [/sarcasm]

 

who cares what GM wants. It only matters what Al wants

 

Joey...I may be out saturday night. Other than that my plans are all over the place this weekend.