cody
Dec 4th, 03, 1:29 AM
Okay I am pretty new at this stuff, and I only halfway Suck! I have a 71 firebird, and i have the front clip off. On my firewall there is a flat section spanning from the left of the windshield wiper to the blowe motor opening. It had a bunch of dents and divets stock, two big holes; 1" and 1 1/2" that were pass throughs for vacuum lines etc.. there were also a buch of small screw holes from miscelleneous things. Plus the metal is pretty thin there and was very flexible. So to patch up the two big holes and make that section stronger(from the hole for the heater box to the windsheld wiper motor) I welded a 16 guage plate behind it, which helped strengthen it and also closed up the two big holes. Well after filling in a million little holes and grinding, I was stupid and decided to lay a few beads on the back side of the new panel. So i was in the car and laid a few welds to the new panel and firewall from inside the car. BIG MISTAKE, it warped the metal obviously! Anyway, right now i got a wavy gravy firewall, with a lot of weld in it! I am wondering if i should let my experienced friend put a layer of "FIBERALL" on it too fill in the gaps and try to get the area straight, and then use bodyfiller over that. OR cut out as much flat area as I can and then trace it on to some 16 guage metal and then put a big old patch panel in. How good is Fiberall? I really don't want some bondoed up firewall! It would be nice to have a fresh piece of metal in there nice and smooth!