Thread: My '27 T Sedan project

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Well I haven't been posting in a while, just reading everyone elses posts so I thought it's time to see what everyone thinks.

There wasn't much left of my firewall so I decided to replace that before I could mount my steering column. It doesn't look as good as the original but it's cleaner and stronger and a lot of the body is gonna need patching so I imagine it won't look much the same, oh well it's still fun. It looks a bit off in the picture but I swear it's symmetrical, I'm gonna look again tomorrow!!

I mounted my steering box on a bracket and tacked it to the frame, it had to mount just slightly back of parallel to allow the rad to be tucked down in front. I know you told me not to do that Don but I hope it doesn't affect it too much, it's probably 3 or 4 degrees off .

I also relocated my master cylinder back about 14" so I'll have a rod going from there through the old mount to the pedal. Mounted my shifter and had to re-fab that a bit so it wasn't under the dash.

I've also pounded out a bunch of dents and stuff, I do a bit at a time in between projects so I don't get too carried away. I also ran some 1" square tubing around the top, it really stiffened it up so there is no more flex, just a lot of grinding to do someday when I'm stuck.

If you see me heading off in the wrong direction let me know, I can use all the help you guys give me.

Sean.

Some more.....you can see why I had to move the master cylinder back, my feet aren't that small.


Sean

I know what I'm missing.........MORE CLUTTER!!!

I just made a bunch of cuts and then bent them over something, I think the small loops were every 1/2" and the big one was every inch. I can check tomorrow. The big one isn't really round, it follows the shape of the tranny but it'll be hidden so no one will ever know.

Sean.

Nope, you aren't heading in the wrong direction at all.........looks good. You made a smart decision having a pro do certain welds. I'm like you, I know my limitations and have no problem letting someone who knows how to do that weld something for me.

Glad to see you've made so much progress too, bet you are getting excited since it is starting to look like a car.

Don

Yea I want to get part of the floor in so I can take the body off and get the sheetmetal done. I was trying to decide how to make a roof and I found an old Vespa front fender from 1963 that matches the rear corners perfect. Gonna order a new one and cut it in half!!!

I got all my engine parts now so I can't wait to get at that also.

Sean