Mav1970's Insane 69.5 Street Project

There are some great builds going on on this forum and I just found yet another!

Great work. You've got me hooked.

 

Thanks Steve - It's hard work - hope you like the pictures

 

Another update

Jean Doll sent me a few more photos of the continued progress that Dale is making on my doors - now working on my driver's door, Dale has my lower 2 outer skin patches welded in, original mirror holes and lock cylinder hole filled and the door handles are now shaved

The bottom front section of this replacement driver's door was rotted through in many small places from the drain holes being blocked (something for all folks to watch out for along with the cowl drains) - water built up in the door and this is what happens - Dale cut these sections out and the welded in sections to replace the rotted through areas - It is kind of cool that the supplied patch pieces came from my Maverick's original door so at least a small part of the original door will be "going back home" when this replacement door is finally reunited with the body of the car :bananaman

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Progress is good......

 

Cowl work progressing

Every time I go to a car show, it inspires me to hurry home and get to work on the Maverick. Well today it was time to fill in the cowl grills. The grills have been cut out for some time now and the cowl cover is still removed from the cowl vents rebuild. I made some steel plates and went to work. I began by trying to weld them up solid until I got a little bit of a heat pucker so I stuck with staggered 1/4 inch knit welds instead. I can straighten out the slight warp with some heat on another day. Most of the welding is done from underneath so only the thickness of the top skin will need to be filled in with all steel and/or bondo. I still need to knit in the area where the passenger side wiper goes and I'll probably throw some tacks up on the top side of the cowl too just to make the plates real solid. I don't want any seam cracks after paint

 

How's it gonna breath?

 

What happened here was I originally jumped the gun on cutting the grills out - covering then was going to be my "quick fix" for the rotted cowl vents - then, later on, I decided to remove the cowl cover and repair it the right way. Since I really like the delete look, I decided to keep it.

I've talked to others that have done this same delete modification and they tell me it will be just fine running the heater on recycle, using air in the interior - I was thinking about maybe adding a small side intake along with a flexible hose, somewhat like the way the Nascar guys get air to their brake systems.

 

There are drain holes on both sides of the cowl. He should not have any problems.

 

I'm sure it will be fine doing it the deleted way. It will look great on that beast of a car you're building! Don't be hangin' dryer ducts in your car!!!! Lol.....

 

How bout a set of those REALLY COOL Trans Am fender vents

 

That would be cool! Hahaha!
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I have seen it done. There is one the comes almost every year to the Carlisle All-Ford Nationals.

 

Going down to Palmerton tomorrow morning to pick up my doors from Jean and Dale Doll - Dale repaired everything in steel plus shaved the door handles and lock cylinders for me - sport mirror mounting holes are spotted in place - doors are sealed, block sanded and in epoxy primer - I'll fit them, get the solenoids/poppers/electric door locks & power windows in place and they will make one more trip south when the car finally gets painted

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As always.......NICE!!!!!

 

Thanks, Sam - I'm kinda liking them