benny-toe wrote:
Step by step, inch by inch, slowly I turned.....and Tom has made some great progress!
Larry, thanks. Inch by inch it is. Just a lot of inches to go yet...
horchoha wrote:
I can't rightly recall in previous posts, are you leaving the engine bay exposed?
Perry, yes, the plan has been to leave the engine bay open. The nose cone has been extended aft and the scuttle lengthened to focus more on the exposed motor. No power steering pump, a low-mount alternator and a reversed intake manifold with the air cleaner under the scuttle -- just featuring the V8 bits.
Tochu wrote:
I've been delaying mine as I don't currently have the combination of skills/tools to make mine look as good as I want it to. Debating giving it a shot or seeing if a shop would make one up for me.
Trochu, not too hard to make an alloy scuttle. Mine is 5052-H32 aluminum, so a bit stiff and I didn't want to anneal the panel and get heat distortion. I probably could have finished forming the rolled sides over the gas bottle if I hadn't trimmed the sides first. So had no leverage to finish the bends. A couple of inches extra length on the sides would have worked better on the slip roller, too. And I had to do a final trim to fit on the sides anyway.
So give it a shot, you can always repurpose the scrap if it doesn't work out.
BostonWill wrote:
I also got on fleebay slide inserts for my headrests. You may be able to drill a hole thru the roll bar and insert the plastic sliders thru the hole.
Thom, your headrest set-up with the Volvo units is looking good. I hadn't thought about using those plastic inserts. I wonder if they will work with the Suzuki headrests I have? What is the diameter of the steel rods in your Volvo headrests?