My 72 Comet Build.....

Dash

Exceptional workmanship !! Looks better than factory ..
Cometized

 

Wow, it looks great, Frank!

 

Thanks to all.....

 

Looking great! ... and the fact that you left that brace back there alone with a touch of surface rust is reassuring. It is a sign that you do have good mental health .... You don't feel the need to mega-detail everything. ... just most stuff.

Really nice work ... as usual ....

 

Thanks!!!!!

Those braces are a bitch to get paint not to fish-eye ridiculously, I don't if they coat them with something or oil impregnate them or what..... Any way it's just not woth the hassle for something that you can't see and they are no more rusty then they are.....

 

Today I modified my dash speaker bracket for two 3.5" speakers, painted it, mounted the speakers and installed it in the dash..... Then I cleaned up and installed my defroster ducts..... Also mounted the cruise control in the right side of the dash just outside of the gauges..... Last thing I did is install the autometer gauges in the dash.....

Getting close to starting on the wiring.....


Here is the dash speaker holder, left one is stock and the right one is modified.....




Here is the dash speaker bracket with the speakers installed in it.....




Here is the speaker assembly and defroster ducts installed.....




Here is the where the cruise control is installed.....




Here is the dash with the gauges installed.....

 

Let us know how that works out. I had installed a cruise control unit inside a car and it made an annoying "clicking" noise.

 

We shall see what happens.....

 

I just keep digging my self in deeper and deeper..... I remove the doors this morning so I can get the front of doors and jambs drilled for poser window wiring..... I knew the paint on the bottoms of the doors didn't look very good, but once I got the door off and on some stands the paint is almost doesn't exist..... Plus there is some surface rust, so I am going to have to take care of this so the doors don't rust..... I also decided I might as well take the crash bars out of the door while I am at it.....

First thing I did after getting the doors off is remove the old seals, latches and handles..... Then I drilled out the spot welds that attach the ends of the crash bars in the door..... I cut the bar in the passenger door into 4 pieces to get it out(after the first one I think I only need to cut it in 3 pieces to get the other out)..... That's as far as I got today.....

Here is the car with the doors removed.....






Here's what the bottom and ends of the door looks like.....





Here is the holes where I had to drill the spot welds out to remove the crash bars.....





and here is the crash bar out of the pass door.....

 

Yup ... the typical one project spawns another when messing around with old cars ... and that is if you are lucky ...lol

It is starting to look like a proper race car under construction ... nice roll bar, no doors, no hood, no seats, cool wheels and tires ....

 

I was given a set of doors from a 75 and I was going to use them until I felt the difference in weight - those crash bars are heavy

 

Everything I try to do turns into a project..... I wouldn't do a lot to the doors right now, but doors in this shape are not easy to come by and I don't want them to start rusting through.....

Yes they are.....

 

May i ask why cut the crash bar out

 

As stated above, just to take the weight out.....

 

there is a major weight difference for such a small part

one guy can easily carry a door without the crash bar
with the crash bar you almost need two guys to carry the door
they feel 100LBS heavier