Jim's Build Thread

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Busy day today......

Ran my conduit / speaker wire to the doors for the speakers in the doors (forgot to snap a pic of that) and fitted the rear speakers in the waterfall and reinstalled the waterfall

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Next, I fitted the wiper motor and installed the wiper blade. Since I have a rag top I did not want the motor on top of the windshield, nor drilled through the windshield glass like it's designed to be so I needed a plan-B. In fact, I didn't even want to see the motor so I spent about an hour looking at various locations. I found a spot on the bottom of the windshield frame I could drill through and mount the motor from the inside of the cowl through the windshield frame.

Once the hole was drilled, I made a couple aluminum spacers with the correct angle to sit against the windshield frame and the cowl on the inside for the motor shaft.

A little nerve wracking drilling into the frame not quite knowing where the glass ends but it all worked out. Works awesome and the wiper blades sits nice and tight against the frame in the resting position. just need to find a cap to cover the nut on the outside. Should be able to find something from some classic car.

Windshield Wiper motor kit ordered from Speedway Motors = https://www.speedwaymotors.com/Unive...Kit,38962.html

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Next I fitted the dash panel and got that mounted so I could figure out where to put the gauge cluster and stereo so I can figure out where the rest of the knobs and switches will go. I wanted the gauge cluster in the spot behind the wheel but I was 1/4" too shy of space so I put it in the middle. Tomorrow I'll place the remaining switches and knobs and then start cleaning up the wiring.

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Last thing I did today before calling it quits was to do a rough mark up of where I'm going to put my vent holes on the engine side panels. I found some really nice 2" round 49 Buick ventiports that should be arrive early next week which will work great for this.

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Jim