{"id":34,"date":"2007-05-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-14T15:13:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T15:13:12","slug":"f100bodyplenty-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Plenty of Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I clamped all the bits of the firewall recess in place, and pulled the hood off to check I had plenty of clearance for the motor. I decided to join the top two halves together first so cut a piece of sheet metal that was long enough to allow me a bit of lattitude when I put the bottom two pieces on. I tacked the top edge first and gradually bent and hammered it into shape as I worked down the seam.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/Firewall-Back-Together.jpg\" alt=\"Firewall Back Together\" width=\"443\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With it in the right shape, I clamped it back in place and decided on how far down I wanted the bottom edges to be. I cut a template from cardboard and transferred it to sheet metal before working my way slowly along the edges. It was a lot harder to keep it all in line so I needed to hammer it as I went. I did the same for the other side and then started to slowly fill the gaps in between the tacks. With it all done a quick test fit and it needed some shaping to clear bellhousing. I started to shape a bulge in it to give me enough clearance in case I go to a 4L80E when the 4L60E blows up. I was out of time then so called it a day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/Motor-Clearance.jpg\" alt=\"Motor Clearance\" width=\"443\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I clamped all the bits of the firewall recess in place, and pulled the hood off to check I had plenty of clearance for the motor. I decided to join the top two halves together first so cut a piece of sheet metal that was long enough to allow me a bit of lattitude when I put the bottom two pieces on. I tacked the top edge first and gradually bent and hammered it into shape as I worked down the seam.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Firewall-Back-Together.jpg\" alt=\"Firewall Back Together\" width=\"443\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-f-100","category-f-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}