Customs My shoebox chop

Her's some more old pics



This was a trunk floor but this most holes



And now welded up with a Volvo 140 tank in it



Floor before like sieve



and now little better

/Stefan

 

Good work going on there.
Front door vent windows.
Yep. Round the corner and move it to a halfway from the two points you showed.
Second one looks too wide now.

 

what's swedish for awesome?

keep posting...

 

Looking good. Keep it up and make us all proud.

 

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I have taken some more pic of my floor in my car





I have made all the plates in the floor including the rockers

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Good work Stefan! keep it up! I hope to get my rockers done this weekend... we'll see!

 

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I have begin to fill out the cutouts in the A-pillar.



I have made 2 profiles that i have stretcht and shrinkt to fit the a-pillar



I have to do 3 cuts so it fit in the a-pillar bow



I have weld it in left here and now have i only the other side left.

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Now is both a-pillars filled out



I have take a check of the vent window size



I have think to do the vent window in this size but with some small adjustments and do it little longer (10mm [3/8"])

Seams it good or should i change it?

/Stefan

 

Her's a picture of what i have thinked the vent window should look like



There will come a profile for the side window to

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I am certainly impressed.

 

That looks like the most difficult chop I have ever seen.

 

wow ..alot of progress ..cant wait to see the end result ...you may have been able to chop it ..with a bunch less work ..but still looking good keep it up

 

wow man lotsa work..lookin good!

 

should look bitchin with those vents, nice work

 

Lookin Good!

 

amazing...the metal work and the engineering!

 

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I were out and work little today on my shoebox i have cut out in the over front part of the door



The cut is made for the vent window fasternes and the roofrail wether striping



the hole in the top of the door will be closed then i have the vent window frames ready

I have will to fitt the flathead engine with the a bmw (getrag 260) 5-speed gear box i have reweld the bell housing on gear box.



I will check how much changes i must to do with floor on ford.


/Stefan

 

I have made same cut out on the driver side too



I removed the passenger door and hade to drill out all the screws



The reson of removing the door is



rust i must change the bottom of the door and hang it much better than it was

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Great fabrication Stefan! Keep up the good work and pics of course!

 

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I have removed the other door and that need cahenge of the bottom too



It was iwen her nesecary to drill out the screws



Next post will be of fix of bottom of doors or test of the flathead and the BMW gearbox



maybe i check if the blower fits under the hood

/Stefan

 

All I can say is amazing........Amazing.......... Amazing.....Watching the progress I said no way....... What is he thinking.....Amazing........You are master..a work of art, right down to the window regulators.........More photos...................

 

WOW!!

Stefan, you are scary.

you made a bellhousing for a flathead to mate to a getrag from a bmw.......Holy crap!

I think I even saw an autocad drawing of a vent window assembly.

I didn't know a roof could have so many pieces and come out so smooth.

 

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The flahead together with getrag 260



I tryed to put in the bmw gearbox to the shoebox



I have to cut little in the floor to get room for the gearbox



The gearbox is now in approx. in right position. I have only put it up on the crossmember without vibrations insulators so i must do somthing with crossmember so i can fitt the rubber insulators

 

Stefan,

Looks great. What type of clutch set up? How are you doing the throwout bearing mechanism?

 

Nuckin Futs, Thats Cool!

 

thats crazy! bmw gear box on a flat head, go stefan!

 

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The clutch is a chevrolet with 10 splines and throwout bering is chevy too
The mecano will be like the original ford , the support bering is a standard metric 12mm id bering

 

That is going to be one kick ass ride when your done.

 

That's what it looked like. Either gm or ford 10 spline. I didn't know BMW used gm 10 spline. Almost looks like a ZF style trans.

I like it.

 

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I have begin with the bad bottoms of the doors
I have cut out the bottoms on both doors and repare the supports



I have taken chemical rost remover on the inside of the doors i have think to sand blast all the car to the sommer or spring when the whether is ok for doing that

/Stefan